Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
Edited by
Percy Hintzen & Jean Muteba Rahier
New York: Routledge |
Jean Muteba Rahier
Department of Sociology/Anthropology and African - New World Studies
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This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.
"Problematizing Blackness builds on the ground-breaking work of scholars such as Frantz Fannon, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Manning Marable, Roy Bryce-Laporte, and Mary Waters (to mention just some of the most important), to assert how the politics of race and black subjectivities in America are becoming increasingly multi-faceted, complex, concealed, and contradictory. In this (self-)critical volume editors and authors remain aware, however, that in the face of the new politics of racial deconstruction many past forms of racism and white supremacy persist, and will continue to be contested by time-proven methods of structural politics. Hintzen and Rahier's volume is a formidable piece of scholarship, which canvasses and usefully contributes to the contestation over racial definitions, politics, and identities."
Holger Henke, author of The West Indian Americans
and Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean.
Forces of globalization and reforms in United States immigration law after the mid-1960s produced a black immigrant population that has no personal experience of the segregation that characterized the racial geography of the United States before the era of civil rights. Problematizing Blackness is a collection of essays by members of this immigrant group, which, by its growing presence, is contributing to the unsettling and destabilizing of the meaning of blackness in the United States. Through reflective and critical self-ethnographies and life histories, the contributors to this volume examine this profound reality of change in the country's racial organization and comment upon the diverse routes that they each have taken as black immigrants forced to navigate the highly racialized terrain of the United States. |
University Press of Kansas, 2003
About the Editors:
James C. Cato is Professor, Food and Resource Economics, Director, Florida Sea Grant College Program, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Christopher L. Brown is Director, Marine Biology Program and Fellow, Honors College, Florida International University, North Miami.
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
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