Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Elisa Joy White is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa, and holds a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications examine a range of areas, including the African Diaspora in Ireland, Black Europe, ethnicity and new media, human rights, and immigration policy.

Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora . . . is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societiesStudents and lecturers/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation.(readthinkwriteteach.com) Highly recommended.(Choice) White should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research. . . . Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world.(International Social Science Review) What this study accomplishes, and quite successfully, is constructing an important expansion of modernity to make room for the complications of white racism impacting African diasporic communities.(Journal of African American History)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society2. Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed3. Media Representation and Black Presence4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life5. A Community in the MakingPart 2. The Glitches of Modernity6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern FutureNotesReferencesIndex