Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Name: Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
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ISBN: 9780226923031

ISBN-10: 0226923037

ISBN-13: 9780226923031

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jemima Pierre

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What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreakingThe Predicament of Blacknessis the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space—as a fixed historic source for the African diaspora—she envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Against the backdrop of Ghana’s history as a major port in the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent and…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Jemima Pierreteaches in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University.nbsp;



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Of Natives and Europeans: Colonialism and the Ethnicization of Racial Dominance



"Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom": The Postcolony and Racial Formation



"You Are Rich Because You Are White": Marking Race and Signifying Whiteness



The Fact of Lightness: Skin Bleaching and the Colored Codes of Racial Aesthetics



Slavery and Pan-Africanist Triumph: Heritage Tourism as State Racecraft



"Are You a Black American?": Race and the Politics of African-Diaspora Interactions



Race across the Atlantic...and Back: Theorizing Africa and/in the Diaspora


Epilogue: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa, and Interrogating Diaspora


Notes


References


Index