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Globalization and Race Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness

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ISBN-10: 082233772X

ISBN-13: 9780822337720

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kamari Maxine Clarke, Deborah A. Thomas

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Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing meanings of blackness in the context of globalization. It illuminates the connections between contemporary global processes of racialization and transnational circulations set in motion by imperialism and slavery; between popular culture and global conceptions of blackness; and between the work of anthropologists, policymakers, religious revivalists, and activists and the solidification and…    
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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Kamari Maxine Clarke is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and senior research scientist at the Yale Law School. Her areas of research explore issues related to transnational religious networks, legal institutions, international criminal law, the interface between culture and power, and its relationship to the modernity of race and late capitalist globalization. Recent articles and books have focused on religious and legal movements and the related production of knowledge and power, including Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities and Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Her…    

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race
Diasporic Movements, Missions and Modernities
Missionary Positions
History at the Crossroads: Vodu and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands
Diaspora and Desire: Gendering "Black America" in Black Liverpool
Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines
"Mama, I'm Walking to Canada": Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires
Geograpies of Racial Belonging
Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage
Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde
Folkloric "Others": Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico
Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality
Recasting "Black Venus" in the "New" African Dispora
"Shooting the White Girl First": Race in Post-aparteid South Africa
Popular Blacknesses, "Authenticity," and New Measures of Legitimacy
Havana's Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex
Reading Buffy and "Looking Proper": Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn
The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London
Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm's African Dance Courses
Modern Blackness: Progress, "America," and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica
Bibliography
Contributors
Index