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.

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas, eds.

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