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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West -- 1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other -- 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire -- 3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought and the Black (Male) Subject -- 4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female Subject -- 5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris -- Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This article seeks to explore the politics of an increasingly prominent African diaspora. It does so by locating the growing debate on diasporas and development in a broader political economy context to provide a historical understanding of how the African diaspora, and its contribution to development outcomes, is shaped by Africa's distinctive politics. In particular, the article considers the significance of neo-patrimonial systems of governance and the crisis of stateness in order to evaluate whether diaspora networks and income represent a significant opportunity to address long-standing problems on the continent.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back -- The Decline of the British Empire -- Conceptualizing "Black Europeans" and "Black Europe" -- Class, Inequality, and the State -- Gender Ideologies and the Experiences of Black Women -- (Dubious!) Comparisons with the United States -- Establishing Our Priorities -- The Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Section 1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe -- 1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch -- Transition from Africans in Europe to Afro-Europe -- The Challenges and Responses -- The Question of Identity and Future Prospects -- Notes -- 2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands -- African-European Encounters: The Repetition of Surprise -- African Men, Women, and Children in Middelburg in 1596 -- "All Baptized Christians" -- Exhibition Day in Middelburg -- Most Likely from Angola -- What Became of Them? -- No Traces in the Archives -- Shipowner Pieter van der Haegen and Captain Melchior van den Kerckhoven -- Carte Blanche: Obtaining Permission from the National Government -- Slavery: Not Here in Europe -- Keeping Slavery an Ocean Away -- Temporary Stay -- Africans in Amsterdam: Rembrandt's View -- Notes -- 3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color -- Notes -- References -- 4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject -- Diasporic Vision: Visualizing Black Europe and the Indexicality of Race -- Family Matters: Race, Gender, and Belonging in Black German Photography -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity -- Anxious Identities and Black European Diasporic Subjectivity.

Essay on interpretations of visual art in societies of the African diaspora. Author relates this to recent shifts in anthropology and art history/criticism toward an increasing combining of art and anthropology and integration of art with social and cultural developments, and the impact of these shifts on Afro-American studies. To exemplify this, she focuses on clothing (among Maroons in the Guianas), quilts, and gallery art. She emphasizes the role of developments in America in these fabrics, apart from just the African origins.

AbstractElectronic resources, especially the World Wide Web, present important advantages for gendered analysis of the African Diaspora. For topics ranging from patterns of enslavement to current educational issues, this review emphasises the possibilities for crossing regional and linguistic boundaries in gender studies through use of the Internet. With citation of numerous websites and other resources, the essay identifies research issues, discusses research techniques, notes various forms of electronic publication and provides examples of searching electronically for different kinds of information.

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Becoming a New Negro -- Chapter 2: Finding a Politics of Diaspora in the Caribbean -- Chapter 3: Aesthetics as Politics -- Chapter 4: Race and Representation During World War II -- Chapter 5: Rehearsal for Revolution at the Dunham School -- Chapter 6: The Unofficial Ambassador of Diaspora -- Chapter 7: Living Diaspora in Haiti and Senegal -- Chapter 8: The Radical Humanist Meets the Black Power Revolution in East St. Louis -- Epilogue: Dunham's Legacy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index