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Author:   Professor Eve Rosenhaft (School of Cultures Languages & Area Studies, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)) ,  Robbie Aitken (Department of History, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9781846318474

ISBN 10:   1846318475
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviationsx List of Contributors 1. Introduction Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken I. Enacting Identity: Individuals, Families and Communities 2. Prince Dido of Didotown and ‘Human Zoos’ in Wilhelmine Germany: Strategies for Self-Representation under the Othering Gaze Albert Gouaffo 3. Schwarze Schmach and métissages contemporains: The Politics and Poetics of Mixed Marriage in a Refugee Family Eve Rosenhaft 4. ‘Among them Complicit’? Life and Politics in France’s Black Communities, 1919–1939 Jennifer Anne Boittin 5. ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948 Daniel Whittall II. Authenticity and Influence: Contexts for Black Cultural Production 6. Féral Benga’s Body James Smalls 7. ‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow S. Ani Mukherji 8. ‘Coulibaly’ Cosmopolitanism in Moscow: Mamadou Somé Coulibaly and the Surikov Academy Paintings, 1960s–1970s Paul R. Davis 9. Afro-Italian Literature: From Productive Collaborations to Individual Affirmations Christopher Hogarth III. Post-colonial Belonging 10. Of Homecomings and Homesickness: The Question of White Angolans in Post-Colonial Portugal Cecilie Øien 11. Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging Donald Martin Carter IV. Narratives/Histories 12. Middle Passage Blackness and its Diasporic Discontents: The Case for a Post-War Epistemology 217 Michelle M. Wright 13. Black and German: Filming Black History and Experience John Sealey 14. Excavating Diaspora: An Interview Discussing Elleke Boehmer’s Novel Nile Baby John Masterson with Elleke Boehmer 15. Afterword Susan Dabney Pennybacker Bibliography Index

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Africa in Europe is the first in the Liverpool University Press series 'Migrations and Identities': its reach and ambition have set the bar high. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 4.2 Autumn 2013

This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans who settled or travelled in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. At the same time, while studies of Africans in Europe have tended to focus on the relationship between colonial (or former colonial) subjects and their respective metropolitan nation states, the essays in this volume widen the lens to consider the skills, practices and negotiations called for by other kinds of border-crossing: The subjects of these essays include people moving between European states and state jurisdictions or from the former colony of one state to another place in Europe, African-born colonial settlers returning to the metropolis, migrants conversing across ethnic and cultural boundaries among 'Africans', and visitors for whom the face-to-face encounter with European society involves working across the 'colour line' and testing the limits of solidarity. Case studies of family life, community-building and politics and cultural production, drawing on original research, illuminate the transformative impact of those journeys and encounters and the forms of 'transnational practice' that they have generated. The contributors include specialist scholars in social history, art history, anthropology, cultural studies and literature, as well as a novelist and a filmmaker who reflect on their own experiences of these complex histories and the challenges of narrating them. -- Dr Philip Dine

This bold and imaginative collection of essays makes a highly valuable contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of recovering the history of 'black' presence in Europe. ... Africa in Europe is the first in the Liverpool University Press series 'Migrations and Identities': its reach and ambition have set the bar high. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 4.2 Autumn 2013

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Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool. Dr Robbie Aitken is Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University.

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