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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- one. MISCEGENATION INTERRUPTED -- two. RI(GH)TES OF INTIMACY AT DOCAPESCA -- three. BLACK MAGIK WOMEN Policing Appearances -- four. BEING IN PLACE Domesticating the Citizen-Migrant Distinction -- five. REGULATING THE CITIZEN, DISCIPLINING THE MIGRANT -- Afterword. AFTER INTEGRATION -- Notes -- References -- Index

This essay explores the meaning of diasporic practice as it has been applied within the contemporary Black Atlantic context. The general focus of this topic has been visible or performative practices that have broad audiences, ranging from diasporic members to the sociopolitically included or the privileged citizen. Moreover, the objects or products of diasporic practice are largely understood to be aesthetic; the literature has highlighted music, dance, art, and religion, for instance. In this essay I argue that a taken-for-granted prerequisite of a hierarchized viewing audience misses passing moments of negotiation that occur in silence or within disciplined exchanges among persons who we identify as diasporic. These practices build community in very powerful ways but may not leave lasting traces or archives; they have to do with fleeting displays of affect such as rage, shame, joy, etc. The ethnographic focus is African immigrant women's constrained work schedules in Lisbon and the ways their labour-time textures the types of community – building practices in which they engage on a daily basis. I address how gendered configurations of migrant labour-time -a condition for governmentality – influence the diasporic process by which a form of racial identification is assumed in the context of Portugal.

This essay observes how race adds value to market exchanges at a
fisheries facility in Lisbon, Portugal. I examine scenarios that primarily
involved interactions between Portuguese men who sold fish and Cape
Verdean immigrant women who purchased it. The scenarios show how race is
crystallized in interaction and how differently raced actors co-utilize
race to accomplish different ends. When vendors initiated difference
recognition for the purpose of promoting a sale, the value of race in that
moment was not independent of how Cape Verdean women chose to ratify it. I
show how racial knowledge could be mediated through its commodity status,
as Cape Verdean women's responses codetermined the political contents
of Portuguese men's racial ascriptions. Importantly, the argument is
not that subjects independently engaged in the reproduction of their
privileged or marginal social status. Rather, the dialectic condition of
interaction involved paired forms of engagement that produced difference.
An examination of this context helps illuminate when and how race
recognition, in public, is identified as neutral or politically
charged.

▪ Abstract  This review traces accounts of African presence in the former USSR that are available in or have been cited primarily in English; many sources on this topic published in the USSR were strategically intended for Western consumption. This review tracks repetitions of tropes that link certain kinds of "blackness" to "Africa": It observes that treating blacks in the USSR as "displaced" confirmed Soviet humanitarianism, and produced and managed anti-Western/anticapitalist forms of Soviet nationalism and federalism. We scrutinize the ways accounts of African presence use evidence of "race remnants" that implicitly position black bodies as subjects of racial dissolution and/or cultural assimilation. This leads us to question the possibility of narrating African presence in contexts ruled by logics that wed spatial displacement/placement to racial impurity/purity. More broadly, the review addresses the utility of ideals of displaced racial communities within African diasporic criticism.

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