Afro-Mexican queen pageants : NGOs and the (re)construction of Blackness / Are you "Black" or "ethnic"? : the dichotomous framing of immigrant identity / by Jorge Gonzalez. Blacks in France : a minority or a community? / by Gado Alzouma -- The comfort of Blackness : using cultural immersion to promote mental health / by Barbara Streets -- Envisioned communities : the African diaspora and interwar race films / by Cara Caddoo -- The middleman speaks : race, citizenship, and labor in The beautiful things that heaven bears / by Julie Iromuanya -- Beyond racial myths, prejudices, and stereotypes : deconstructing African/Black diaspora studies in a changing world / by Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr. -- Part II. The modern African diaspora and Black identity. -- Black like who? the identity of an American president / by Hettie V. Williams -- Black first, but not only : racial identity formation in a changing Black 'hood' / by Barbara H. Combs -- The African diaspora in the US : cultural clash and identity challenges / by Julius O. Adekunle -- The things they carried : from West Africa to Low Country Georgia, 1750-1800 / by Karen Cook Bell -- Is the Negro like other people? : race, religion, and the didactic oratory of Henry McNeal Turner / by Andre E. Johnson -- Part III. The Black diaspora in Latin American identity and culture. -- "Pardo" and "Preto" into "Negro" : Blackness in contemporary Brazil / by G. Reginald Daniel -- Afro-Puerto Ricans and Afro-Dominicans online : constructing identities in cyberspace / by Ashley D. Aaron -- Louisiana Creoles and Latinidad : locating culture and community / by Andrew Jolivette & Haruki Eda -- Stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians through the media : the case of the Peruvian Blackface / by Miguel Becerra -- Afro-Mexican queen pageants : NGOs and the (re)construction of Blackness / by Jorge Gonzalez.
Summary:
"Converging Identities is a volume of sixteen essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity in the African Diaspora in global perspective, but focusing on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Given the historical factors that prompted Africans to populate different parts of the world, the subject of blackness as a form of identity is relevant. In modern times, blackness and identity are popular subject matters in view of the historic election of U.S. President Barack Obama in 2008."--Page [4] of cover.
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