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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807323303321

Autore

White Elisa Joy

Titolo

Modernity, freedom, and the African diaspora : Dublin, New Orleans, Paris / / Elisa Joy White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomingtonn, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-69648-6

9786613673442

0-253-00128-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Disciplina

305.896

Soggetti

Blacks - Ireland - Dublin - Social conditions

African Americans - Louisiana - New Orleans - Social conditions

Blacks - France - Paris - Social conditions

African diaspora

Community life - Ireland - Dublin

Community life - Louisiana - New Orleans

Community life - France - Paris

Dublin (Ireland) Race relations

New Orleans (La.) Race relations

Paris (France) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin -- Ireland : Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society -- African Diaspora Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed in Ireland -- A Community Begins : Media Representation and Black Presence in Ireland -- The Retro-Global Lived : Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life in Dublin -- Retro-Global Living : A Community in the Making -- Part 2. African Diaspora Communities and the Glitches of Modernity -- Dublin : The Olukunle Elukanlo Case -- New Orleans : Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity -- Paris : The Liberating Quality of Race -- Conclusion: Toward a Modern Future.

Sommario/riassunto

Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora



communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Niger