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Modernity, freedom, and the African diaspora : Dublin, New Orleans, Paris / Elisa Joy White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Elisa Joy.
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora.
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Ireland--Dublin--Social conditions.
- Black people.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- Black people--France--Paris--Social conditions.
- African diaspora.
- Community life--Ireland--Dublin.
- Community life.
- Community life--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Community life--France--Paris.
- Dublin (Ireland)--Race relations.
- Dublin (Ireland).
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Paris (France)--Race relations.
- Paris (France).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomingtonn : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Niger
- Contents:
- Part 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin
- Ireland : Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society
- African Diaspora Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed in Ireland
- A Community Begins : Media Representation and Black Presence in Ireland
- The Retro-Global Lived : Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life in Dublin
- Retro-Global Living : A Community in the Making
- Part 2. African Diaspora Communities and the Glitches of Modernity
- Dublin : The Olukunle Elukanlo Case
- New Orleans : Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity
- Paris : The Liberating Quality of Race
- Conclusion: Toward a Modern Future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613673442
- 9781280696480
- 1280696486
- 9780253001283
- 0253001285
- OCLC:
- 796384106
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