Black Europe and the African Diaspora

Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Trica Danielle Keaton is an Associate Professor in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Stephen Small is an Associate Professor in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Thought-providing. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "An elegant, imaginative, and penetrating intervention in the ethnographies and theories of race and community in the African diaspora. A masterful contribution to the growing field of Black European studies and to diaspora studies."--Mamadou Diouf, coeditor of New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity"Enormously stimulating, this volume is essential reading for those interested in exploring the evolving story of the Black presence worldwide."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas

• Foreword   ixPhilomena Essed Preface   xviiDarlene Clark Hine Acknowledgments   xxi Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back   xxiiiStephen Small Section1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch   3Allison Blakely2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands   29Dienke Hondius3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color   48Eileen Julien4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject   63Tina M. Campt5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity   84T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson Section 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity   95Trica Danielle Keaton7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa   119Alessandra Di Maio8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness" Reclaimed   145Fred Constant9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music   161Alexander G. Weheliye10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France   180Tyler Stovall Section 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In Europe11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location   201Jacqueline Nassy Brown12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia   212Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris   238Terri Francis14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora   260Michelle M. Wright15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe...   277Gloria Wekker Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability   291Barnor Hesse Notes on Contributors   305Index   311