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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815219203321

Autore

Carter Donald Martin <1955->

Titolo

Navigating the African diaspora : the anthropology of invisibility / / Donald Martin Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4592-6

0-8166-7331-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

305.896

Soggetti

African diaspora

Photography in ethnology - Africa

Ethnology - Africa

Invisibility in motion pictures

Senegalese - Italy - Social conditions

Senegalese - Race identity - Italy

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

The anthropology of invisibility -- A nonracial education : on navigating diaspora, anti-Black caricature, and anthropology -- Remembering Khartoum and other tales of displacement -- The inexhaustible sense of exile : other cultures in the photographic imaginary -- Crossing modernity : the journey from imperial to diasporic nostalgia -- Sites of erasure : Black prisoners and the poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Comrade storyteller : diasporic encounters in the cinema of Ousmane Sembene -- Travel warnings : observations of voyages real and imagined.

Sommario/riassunto

Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves



through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The per