Transnational Blackness Navigating the Global Color Line [Hardcover]

Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the world.Introduction: Blackness Beyond Boundaries; M.Marable PART I: THEORIZING RACE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Race and Globalization: Racialization from Below; L.Mullings Racism in a Time of Terror: Notes from Ground Zero, 2001; M.Marable Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights; F.V.Harrison The Modern World Racial System; H.Winant The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood; A.W.Marx PART II: INTERROGATING RACE AND RACISM IN THE AMERICAS A Tale of Two Barrios: Puerto Rican Youth and the Politics of Belonging; G.M.P?rez Reinventing the Jamaican Political System; B.Meeks Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis; J.Jordan PART III: MUTUAL INSPIRATION: RADICALS IN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE The Havana Afrocubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance: The Role of the Intellectual in the Formation of Racial and National Identity; R.R.Laremont & L.Yun Eslanda Goode Robeson's African Journey : The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora; M.Mahon Du Bois's Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Negritude; M.Q.Sawyer 'Long Live Third World Unity! Long Live Internationalism': Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Intercommunalism; B.Rodriguez 'A Free Black Mind is a Concealed Weapon': Institutions and Social Movements in the African Diaspora; R.Hayes PART IV: EUROPE AND ASIA ON THE COLOR LINE Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy; G.Horne Whiting, Femme Negritude: Jane Nardal, La Depeche Africaine, and the Francophone New Negro; T.D.Sharpley In Denial: Racial Profiling in Europe; C.Lusane PART V: CRAFTING RESISTANCE: IDENTITY, NARRATIVE, AND AGENCY Salvaging Lives in the African l��