Locating African European studies : interventions, intersections, conversations / edited by Felipe Espinoza Garrido [and three others]..

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Espinoza Garrido, Felipe, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora.

Routledge studies on African and black diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, African--Appreciation--France.

Art, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in Europe. Locating African European Studies reflects on the meanings, objectives, and contours of this field. Twenty-six activists, academics, and artists cover a wide range of topics, engaging with processes of affiliation, discrimination, and resistance. They negotiate the methodological foundations of the field, explore different meanings and politics of African' and European', and investigate African European representations in literature, film, photography, art, and other media. In three thematic sections, the book focusses on: African European social and historical formations African European cultural production Decolonial academic practice Locating African European Studies features innovative transdisciplinary research, and will be of interest to students and scholars of various fields, including Black Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies, African Studies, History, and Social Sciences.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: African European studies as a critique of contingent belonging

Overview of chapters

Part I: African European social and historical formations

Part II: African European cultural production

Part III: Decolonial academic practice

Notes

References

Chapter 1: "We have to act. That is whatforms collectivity"Black solidarity beyond identity incontemporary Paris

Unsettling French Republican universalism

Snapshots of black activisms within the context of French Republicanism

L'inaction nous rend complices ("Inaction renders us complicit"): the Brigade Anti-Négrophobie

Black collective solidarity beyond identity

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Village du monde? (Fortress) Europe, the "Jungle" of Calais, and the African European paradigm

The "Jungle" of Calais-symbolism, deprivation, and necropolitics

Reading urbanism and refuge

The politics of performing the urban

Chapter 3: From bokoe bullying to Afrobeats: Or how being African became cool in black Amsterdam

Introduction

Becoming African in Black Amsterdam

"Blogging Black from the Netherlands and how I became an Afro-European"

"Being an African in the diaspora"

"Afrobeats, Afrodance, Azonto … everybody feels attracted to Africa"

Chapter 4: Involving diaspora communities through action research: A collaborative museum exhibition on the African presence in Finland

Objectives of the exhibition project

Calls for collaboration and lessons from nonparticipation

Organisation of collaboration.

The overlapping themes of the exhibition: at home in Finland as racialised subjects with transnational bonds

Conclusions

Chapter 5: The footman's new clothes

Chapter 6: Transatlantic connections, memory, and postmemory in Afro-German biographies

Breaking silences

Liberations

Narratives of home and exile

Stories that matter

Chapter 7: Practicing autoethnography: Transnational Afro-German heritage

Autoethnography

The intergenerational and transnational

How German can an African American be?

Racism

Transcontinental diasporic identity

Citizenship discourses

Cultural maintenance

Cultural location

Expanding the narrative

Chapter 8: "Zog Nit Keyn Mol": Paul Robeson's tragic love of Russia

Chapter 9: Forgotten histories: Recovering the precarious lives of African servants in Imperial Germany

Personal servants

Group composition

Snapshots of visits

Restricting migration

Chapter 10: Opening homes, opening worlds: African European spatial interventions in Helen Oyeyemi's fiction

Homes

The Opposite House

White is for Witching

African European (be)longings

Conclusion: opening homes, opening worlds

Chapter 11: Afropolitanism and mobility: Constructions of home and belonging in Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference

Chapter 12: Black British queer intersectionality: From Labi Siffre's Nigger to Dean Atta's I am Nobody's Nigger

Styling sexuality

Mediated blackness

Feminist queer poetics

References.

Chapter 13: Voices from the Black diasporain Spain: On transcultural spaces and Afrospanish identity constructions in poetry

Chapter 14: Adapting contested histories: The film Belle (2013) and its politics of representation

The challenges of lost (hi)stories

Reading Belle

Accommodated stories: the function of artworks in the film

Chapter 15: Returning the colonial gaze: The black female body in Angèle Etoundi Essamba's photography

Pseudo-scientific images

Photographing the black female body

Chapter 16: The Afropean gaze: Through a decolonial lens

Afropean: documenting Black Europe

Chapter 17: "Why isn't my professor black?" A roundtable

WHY ARE THERE SO FEW BLACK PROFESSORS AND PROFESSORS OF COLOR IN GERMANY?

Karim Fereidooni

Why are there so few black professors in Germany?

FROM "WHY ISN'T MY PROFESSOR BLACK?" TO "BLACK LIVES MATTER" IN AND BEYOND THE ACADEMY

Vanessa Eileen Thompson

DECOLONISING DIVERSITY

Emily Ngubia Kessé

Chapter 18: Structures of dis/empowerment: My year as the UK's first Black and Minority Ethnic Students' Officer

Background

The journey

The university

The five-point plan

My final term

Final thoughts

Chapter 19: On the (im)possibility of black British queer studies

Black British studies in the new millennium and questions of (im)possibility

On the limits and orientations of black queer studies

Black British queer studies as intervention beyond the nation

Chapter 20: Negotiating Afroeuropean literary borders: The inclusion of African Spanish and African British literatures in Spanish universities

The absence of African Spanish literatures in Spanish universities

The presence of African British literatures in universities

Chapter 21: Beyond emergent: Creating, debating, and implementing African European studies

The politics of studying African European knowledge formations

A case of recent history in African European studies: Black Ireland

Growing the field: debating and implementing African European studies

Studying AES: experiencing Black European studies in a US classroom

An emerging conclusion

Note

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-95686-X

0-429-95687-8

0-429-49109-3

9780429491092

OCLC:

1127643432