Blackening Europe: The African American Presence

ISBN-13: 9780415943987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 314 str.

Heike Raphael-Hernandez; Paul Gilroy

Opis

Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures. Evidence of Europe's blackening abound, form French ministers of Hip-hop and British incarnations of "Shaft" to slavery memorial in the Netherlands and German youth sporting dreadlocks. Collecting essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and fields as diverse as history, literature, politics, social studies, art, film and music, Blackening Europe explores the implications of these cultural hybrids and extends the growing dialogues about Europe's fascination with African America.

Spis treści

Paul Gilroy, PrefaceHeike Raphael-Hernandez, Introduction: Primarizing the African American ExperiencePart I: Creating a FoundationJed Rasula, Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-GardeSamir Dayal, Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European IdentityDorothea Fischer-Hornung, 'Jungle in the Spotlight'? Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German TourIrina Novikova, Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSRPart II: Accompanying Europe into the Twenty-first CenturyJohanna C. Kardux, Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and The NetherlandsP.A. Skantze, Dancing Away Towards Home: An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary EuropeAndré Lepecki, The Melancholic Influence of the Post-colonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine BakerMaría Frías, Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Soleá and Back Felicia McCarren, Monsieur Hip-HopCathy Covell Waegner, Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The 'Darkening' of German Youth CultureÉva Miklódy, A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S. and the Rest: Hungarian Youth RappingCh. Didier Gondola, 'But I Ain't African, I'm American!' Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century FranceAlan Rice, 'Heroes across the Sea': Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in Contemporary Black British Fiction by Caryl Phillips and Jackie KayPart III: Turning into Theory for EuropeSabine Broeck, Never Shall We Be Slaves - Locke's Treatises, Slavery and Early European ModernityPeter Gardner, Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first CenturiesMihaela Mudure, Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian CaseHeike Raphael-Hernandez, 'Niggas' and 'Skins': Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas

O autorze

Heike Raphael-Hernandez