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The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to Br

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.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race -- PART I DIASPORIC MOVEMENTS, MISSIONS, AND MODERNITIES -- Missionary Positions -- History at the Crossroads: Vodú and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands -- Diaspora and Desire: Gendering ''Black America'' in Black Liverpool -- Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines -- ''Mama, I'm Walking to Canada'': Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires -- PART II GEOGRAPHIES OF RACIAL BELONGING -- Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage -- Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde -- Folkloric ''Others'': Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico -- Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality -- Recasting ''Black Venus'' in the ''New'' African Diaspora -- ''Shooting the White Girl First'': Race in Post-apartheid South Africa -- PART III POPULAR BLACKNESSES, ''AUTHENTICITY,'' AND NEW MEASURES OF LEGITIMACY -- Havana's Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex -- Reading Bu√y and ''Looking Proper'': Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn -- The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London -- Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm's African Dance Courses -- Modern Blackness: Progress, ''America,'' and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index