Telling Blackness : Young Liberians and the Semiotics of Contemporary Diaspora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smalls, Krystal, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Language and Race Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberian Americans--Race identity--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Liberian Americans.

African Americans--Race identity--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

African Americans.

Youth, Black--Race identity--Liberia--Monrovia.

Youth, Black.

Black people--Race identity--Liberia--Monrovia.

Black people.

African diaspora.

Immigrants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Monrovia (Liberia)--Race relations.

Monrovia (Liberia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

Telling Blackness looks at the everyday lives of a small group of young Liberians in the US as they make meaning about being Black, African, Liberian, and human in ways that counter dominant antiblack meanings and that inform how they relate to Black people from different parts of the world.

Contents:

Telling Blackness and Black Livingness in (Anti)Black America

Telling Blackness Through Liberia

Telling Through Love : A Methodology for Testifying to Black Life

Telling Time and Black Personhood in Early Liberia and Beyond

The Loom of Loss : Telling as Transitive Ante-Narrative

Sense and Sensibility : Ways of Relating and Black Diasporic Languaging

Sounding Off : Sonic Cartographies of Black Diasporic Girlhood

Telling, Meaning, and Mattering.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780197697610

0197697615

9780197697597

0197697593

OCLC:

1422144683