Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138207110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016

Michael McEachrane

Opis

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans and people of African descent in the Nordic countries in relation to national identities, racism and diaspora. The book covers a broad range of topics such as the history of jazz in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the existential predicament of being a mixed-race black Swedish woman, and Diasporas from the Horn of Africa in the Nordic countries. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and ‘critical race theory’."

Spis treści

Foreword  Paul Gilroy.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction  Michael McEachrane  Part I: The Nation  1. Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland  Kristín Loftsdóttir  2. "Struggling to Be Recognized as Belonging to the Fauna of Norway": On Being Black Norwegian Women  madeleine kennedy-macfoy  3. The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation About Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden  Cecil Brown, Anne Dvinge, Petter Frost Fadnes, Johan Fornäs, Ole Izard Høyer, Marilyn Mazur, Michael McEachrane and John Tchicai  Part II: Racism  4. There's a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe  Michael McEachrane  5. Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake—An Email Conversation  Beth Maina Ahlberg, Claudette Carr, Madubuko Diakité, Fatima El-Tayeb, Tobias Hübinette, Momodou Jallow, Victoria Kawesa, Michael McEachrane, Utz McKnight, Anders Neergaard, Shailja Patel, Kitimbwa Sabuni and Minna Salami  6. Being and Becoming Mixed Race, Black, Swedish and a Nomadic Subject  Anna Adeniji  7. Bertrand Besigye's Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway  Helena Karlsson  8. Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye: (i) How A Black African Orders Black Coffee (To Barack Hussein Obama); (ii) You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down. Or Black Hail Over All of West Side (Translated by John Irons)  Bertrand Besigye  Part III: Diaspora  9. Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland  Anna Rastas  10. Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark  Martyn Bone  11. A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe—An Email Conversation  Abdalla Duh, Mohamed Husein Gaas, Abdalla Gasimelseed, Amel Gorani, Nauja Kleist, Anne Kubai, Michael McEachrane, Saifalyazal Omar, Tsegaye Tegenu and Marja Tiilikainen

O autorze

Michael McEachrane is an independent scholar.