Black subjects in Africa and its diasporas: race and gender in research and writing

Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local perceptions and the ways in which these notions are asserted or altered. BENJAMIN TALTON is an Assistant Professor of History at Temple University,USA. QUINCY T. MILLS is an Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College, USA. INDICE: Race, Gender and the Research Subject: An Introduction; 'B.Talton'& 'Q.T.Mills ' - Researching while Black: Interrogating and Navigating Boundaries of Belonging in the Andes; 'S.Busdiecker' - Posing as Subject: Compromiseand the Art of Access in Trinidad; 'H.Neptune ' - Translating Hybrid Cultures: Quandaries of an Indian-Australian Ethnographer in Cuba; 'S.Fernandes' - Where to Find Black Identity in Buenos Aires; 'J.Anderson ' - 'You Don't Look Groomed': Rethinking Black Barber Shops as Public Spaces in the United States; 'Q.T.Mills' - The 'Dark Sheep' of the Atlantic World: Following the Transnational Trail of Blacks to Canada; 'D.J.Broyld ' - The Strange Life of Lusotropicalism in Luanda: On Race, Nationality and Sexuality in Angola; 'J.Krug' - Quenching the Thirst for Data: Beer, Local Connections and Fieldwork in Ghana; 'B.Talton ' - (African-) American Woman Outsider: Nationality, Race and Gender in Field Research in Mozambique; 'F.Henderson ' - Mamatoma 'The Chief's Namesake': Strategies for Research and Belonging in Sierra Leone; 'L.R.Day '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11587-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés