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Navigating the African diaspora : the anthropology of invisibility / Donald Martin Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Donald Martin, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora.
- Photography in ethnology--Africa.
- Photography in ethnology.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Invisibility in motion pictures.
- Senegalese--Italy--Social conditions.
- Senegalese.
- Senegalese--Race identity--Italy.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001--Criticism and interpretation.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar.
- Carter, Donald Martin, 1955-.
- Carter, Donald Martin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The per
- Contents:
- The anthropology of invisibility
- A nonracial education : on navigating diaspora, anti-Black caricature, and anthropology
- Remembering Khartoum and other tales of displacement
- The inexhaustible sense of exile : other cultures in the photographic imaginary
- Crossing modernity : the journey from imperial to diasporic nostalgia
- Sites of erasure : Black prisoners and the poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor
- Comrade storyteller : diasporic encounters in the cinema of Ousmane Sembene
- Travel warnings : observations of voyages real and imagined.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4592-6
- 0-8166-7331-4
- OCLC:
- 646068315
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