Bøker i Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora-serien

Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters, this book places the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic and gives particular attention to the construction of mixed-race femininity and masculinity during the twentieth century.

Analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented in Western art, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. This book poses critical questions about the contexts of production and the problems of representation.

This edited collection examines the diversity of the Haitian experience in diaspora to ask how we might situate and conceptualize community in view of increased scholarly attention to transnational processes.

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans and people of African descent in the Nordic countries in relation to national identities, racism and diaspora. The book covers a broad range of topics such as the history of jazz in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the existential predicament of being a mixed-race black Swedish woman, and Diasporas from the Horn of Africa in the Nordic countries. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and `critical race theory¿."

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans in Northern Europe in relation to national narratives, racism, and the African Diaspora, mapping the emerging multicultural realities of Europe.

After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization.

This edited collection examines the diversity of the Haitian experience in diaspora to ask how we might situate and conceptualize community in view of increased scholarly attention to transnational processes.