Globalization and Race

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted and been constituted by global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing meanings of blackness in the context of globalization. It illuminates the connections between contemporary global processes of racialisation and trans-national circulations set in motion by imperialism and slavery; between the work of anthropologists, policymakers, religious revivalists, and activists and the solidification and globalization of racial categories; and between popular culture and global conceptions of blackness. A number of the essays bring to light the formative but not unproblematic influence of African American identity on other populations within the black diaspora.Among these are an examination of the impact of "black America" on racial identity and politics in mid-twentieth-century Liverpool and an inquiry into the distinctive experiences of blacks in Canada. The contributors investigate concepts of race and space in early-twenty-first century Harlem, the experiences of trafficked Nigerian sex workers in Italy, and the persistence of race in the purportedly non-racial language of the "New South Africa." They highlight how blackness is consumed and expressed in Cuban timba music, in West Indian adolescent girls' fascination with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in the incorporation of American rap music into black London culture. Connecting race to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion, these essays reveal how new class economies, ideologies of belonging, and constructions of social difference are emerging from ongoing global transformations.

ISBN 082233772X   Pages 392 ISBN13 9780822337720 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Duke University Press   Weight (grammes) 599 Imprint Duke University Press   Published in North Carolina Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 22 Aug 2006   Width (mm) 160 Library of Congress 2005031754   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 305.896   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction : globalization and the transformations of race by Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke		1
		Missionary positions by Lee D. Baker		37
		History at the crossroads : Vodu and the modernization of the Dominican borderlands by Robert L. Adams		55
		Diaspora and desire : gendering "black America" in black Liverpool by Jacqueline Nassy Brown		73
		Diaspora space, ethnographic space : writing history between the lines by Tina M. Campt		93
		"Mama, I'm walking to Canada" : black geopolitics and invisible empires by Naomi Pabst		112
		Mapping transnationality : roots tourism and the institutionalization of ethnic heritage by Kamari Maxine Clarke		133
		Emigration and the spatial production of difference from Cape Verde by Kesha Fikes		154
		Folkloric "others" : Blanqueamiento and the celebration of blackness as an exception in Peurto Rico by Isar P. Godreau		171
		Gentrification, globalization, and georaciality by John L. Jackson, Jr.		188
		Recasting "black Venus" in the "new" African diaspora by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe		206
		"Shooting the white girl first" : race in post-apartheid South Africa by Grant Farred		226
		Havana's Timba : a macho sound for black sex by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant		249
		Reading Buffy and "looking proper" : race, gender, and consumption among West Indian girls in Brooklyn by Oneka Labennett		279
		The homegrown : rape, race, and class in London by Raymond Codrington		299
		Racialization, gender, and the negotiation of power in Stockholm's African dance courses by Lena Sawyer		316
		Modern blackness : progress, "America," and the politics of popular culture in Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas		335

"Contrary to the glib forecasts of many academic and journalistic pundits, race is not going away; rather it is energetically reorganizing itself and working through new global divisions. Globalization and Race examines this new context by inquiring into the various ways that emerging global processes are fundamentally reshaping the way people of African descent experience and theorize racial identity." David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment " Globalization and Race will be an invaluable resource for courses on diaspora, anthropology, and cultural studies. The keen attention to subjectivities created through discourses and practices that figure race, gender, class, national, and continental differences in global contexts makes this volume distinctive." Paulla A. Ebron, author of Performing Africa

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