A collection that theorizes how global political and economic changes have influenced the ways in which people of African descent represent and contemplate their identities.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race / Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke 1
Part I. Diasporic Movements, Missions and Modernities
Missionary Positions / Lee D. Baker 37
History at the Crossroads: Vodu and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands / Robert L. Adams 55
Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America” in Black Liverpool / Jacqueline Nassy Brown 73
Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines / Tina M. Campt 93
“Mama, I’m Walking to Canada”: Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires / Naomi Pabst 112
Part II. Geograpies of Racial Belonging
Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage / Kamari Maxine Clarke 133
Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde / Kesha Fikes 154
Folkloric “Others”: Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau 171
Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality / John L. Jackson Jr. 188
Recasting “Black Venus” in the “New” African Dispora / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe 206
“Shooting the White Girl First”: Race in Post-aparteid South Africa / Grant Farred 226
Part III. Popular Blacknesses, “Authenticity,” and New Measures of Legitimacy
Havana’s Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 249
Reading Buffy and “Looking Proper”: Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka Labennett 279
The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London / Raymond Codrington 299
Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm’s African Dance Courses / Lena Sawyer 316
Modern Blackness: Progress, “America,” and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas 335
Bibliography 355
Contributors 391
Index 395

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