Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

Name: Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool
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ISBN: 9780691115634

ISBN-10: 069111563X

ISBN-13: 9780691115634

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jacqueline Nassy Brown

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The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.13" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface



Setting Sail



Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space



1981



Genealogies: Place, Race, and Kinship



Diaspora and Its Discontents: A Trilogy



My City, My Self: A Folk Phenomenology



A Slave to History: Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port



The Ghost of Muriel Fletcher



Local Women and Global Men: The Liverpool That Was


Postscript: The Leaving of Liverpool


Notes


References


Index