Black Europe and the African Diaspora

Preface / Darlene Clark Hine Foreword / Philomena Essed Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back / Stephen Small Section One: Historical Facts of Blackness 1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch / Allison Blakely; 2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands / Dienke Hondius; 3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of; Color / Eileen Julien; 4. Pictures of ''US''? Blackness, Diaspora and the Afro-German Subject / Tina M. Campt; 5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity / T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson Section Two. Contemporary Blackness in Focus: France, Germany, and Italy 6. ''Black American Paris'' and the ''Other France'': Interpellative Migration Narratives of; Inclusion and Social Race in Parisian-French Society / Trica Danielle Keaton; 7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa / Alessandra Di Maio; 8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, Blackness Reclaimed / Fred Constant; 9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular; Music / Alexander G. Weheliye; 10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France / Tyler Stovall Section Three. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)Imagining Blackness in Europe 11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location / Jacqueline Nassy Brown; 12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism and Xenophobia / Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small; 13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris / Terri Frances; 14. Pale By Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora / Michelle M. Wright; 15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe ... / Gloria Wekker Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability / Barnor Hesse

''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, co-editor 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, co-editor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas