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Transnational Blackness

Navigating the Global Color Line

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Critical Black Studies (CBL)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Manning Marable
      Pages 1-8
  3. Theorizing Race in a Global Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Race and Globalization

      • Leith Mullings
      Pages 11-18
    3. The Modern World Racial System

      • Howard Winant
      Pages 41-53
    4. The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood

      • Anthony W. Marx
      Pages 55-62
  4. Interrogating Race and Racism in the Americas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. A Tale Of Two Barrios

      • Gina M. Pérez
      Pages 65-72
    3. Afro-Colombia

      • Joseph Jordan
      Pages 87-97
  5. Mutual Inspiration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. The Havana Afrocubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance

      • Ricardo Rene Laremont, Lisa Yun
      Pages 101-113
    3. Eslanda Goode Robeson’S African Journey

      • Maureen Mahon
      Pages 115-133
    4. “A Free Black Mind Is a Concealed Weapon”

      • Robin J. Hayes
      Pages 175-187
  6. Europe and Asia on the Color Line

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. Tokyo Bound

      • Gerald Horne
      Pages 191-203
    3. Femme Négritude

      • T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
      Pages 205-214

About this book

Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the world.

About the authors


MANNING MARABLE is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, USA.
 
VANESSA AGARD-JONES is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and French Studies at New York University, USA and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Audre Lorde Project: A Community Organizing Center for LGBTST People of Color in New York City. 

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