Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the encounters of different forms of blackness converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various essays document the antagonism between African Americans and Africans regarding heritage tourism in West Africa, discuss the interaction between different forms of blackness in Toronto's Caribana Festival, probe the impact of the Civil Rights movement in America on diasporic communities elsewhere, and assess the anxiety about HIV and AIDS within black communities. The volume demonstrates that diaspora is a floating revelation of black consciousness that brings together, in a single space, dimensions of difference in forms and content of representations, practices, and meanings of blackness. Diaspora imposes considerable flexibility in what would otherwise be place-bound fixities. Contributors are Marlon M. Bailey, Jung Ran Forte, Reena N. Goldthree, Percy C. Hintzen, Lyndon Phillip, Andrea Queeley, Jean Muteba Rahier, Stéphane Robolin, and Felipe Smith. |Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition ix
Percy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba Rahier

I. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition
1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community 3
Felipe Smith
2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship 29
Jean Muteba Rahier

II. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness
3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area 49
Percy C. Hintzen
4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert 74
Lyndon Phillip
5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture 96
Marlon M. Bailey
6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries 127
Stephane Robolin
7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism 152
Reena N. Goldthree
8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin 174
Jung Ran Forte
9. Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba 201
Andrea Queeley

References 223
Contributors 255
Index 258| "Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."—May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship
| Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. He is the coeditor, with Percy C. Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C....

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