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Becoming Black : creating identity in the African diaspora / Michelle M. Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Michelle M., 1968-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- Identity (Psychology).
- African diaspora.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Being and becoming Black in the West
- The European and American invention of the Black Other
- The trope of masking in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire
- Some women disappear : Frantz Fanon's legacy in Black nationalist thought and the Black (male) subject
- How I got ovah : masking to motherhood and the diasporic Black female subject
- The urban diaspora : Black subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris
- Epilogue : If the Black is a subject, can the subaltern speak?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822385868
- 0822385864
- OCLC:
- 850219312
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