Blackening Europe : the African American presence / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez ; with a foreword by Paul Gilroy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raphael-Hernandez, Heike.

Series:

Crosscurrents in African American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Europe--Social conditions.

Black people.

Public opinion.

African American jazz musicians.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Ethnic relations.

Europe--Race relations.

African American jazz musicians--Europe.

Black people--Europe--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures. Evidence of Europe's blackening abound, form French ministers of Hip-hop and British incarnations of "Shaft" to slavery memorial in the Netherlands and German youth sporting dreadlocks. Collecting essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and fields as diverse as history, literature, politics, social studies, art, film and music, "Blackening Europe" explores the implications of these cultural hybrids and extends the growing dialogues about Europe's fascination with African America.

Contents:

Foreword: Migrancy, Culture, and a New Map of Europe / Paul Gilroy xi

Introduction: Making the African American Experience Primary / Heike Raphael-Hernandez 1

Part I Creating a Foundation

1 Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-Garde / Jed Rasula 13

2 Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European Identity / Samir Dayal 35

3 "Jungle in the Spotlight"?: Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 53

4 Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSR / Irina Novikova 73

Part II Accompanying Europe into the Twenty-first Century

5 Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands / Johanna C. Kardux 87

6 Dancing Away toward Home: An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary Europe / P.A. Skantze 107

7 The Melancholic Influence of the Postcolonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker / Andre Lepecki 121

8 Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Solea and Back / Maria Frias 141

9 Monsieur Hip-Hop / Felicia Mccarren 157

10 Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The "Darkening" of German Youth Culture / Cathy Covell Waegner 171

11 A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the Rest: Hungarian Youth Rapping / Eva Miklody 187

12 "But I Ain't African, I'm American!": Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century France / Ch. Didier Gondola 201

13 "Heroes across the Sea": Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction by Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay / Alan Rice 217

Part III Turning into Theory for Europe

14 Never Shall We Be Slaves: Locke's Treatises, Slavery, and Early European Modernity / Sabine Broeck 235

15 Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century / Peter Gardner 249

16 Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian Case / Mihaela Mudure 263

17 "Niggas" and "Skins": Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-Income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas / Heike Raphael-Hernandez 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415943981

041594399X

OCLC:

52203438