Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora (ebook)

Argumento de Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora (ebook)

"Students and lecturers/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation." ?readthinkwriteteach.com

"Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora... is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societies" ?

Elisa Joy White is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii, Mnoa, and holds a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications examine a range of areas, including the African Diaspora in Ireland, Black Europe, ethnicity and new media, human rights, and immigration policy.

"White should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research.... Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world." ?International Social Science Review

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"Highly recommended." ?Choice0Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin
1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society
2. Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed
3. Media Representation and Black Presence
4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life
5. A Community in the Making

Part 2. The Glitches of Modernity
6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case
7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity
8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race
9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern Future
Notes
References
Index