03606oam 22007334a 450 991046244690332120220203014603.01-280-69648-697866136734420-253-00128-5(CKB)2670000000205617(EBL)816831(OCoLC)796384106(SSID)ssj0000678401(PQKBManifestationID)11387195(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678401(PQKBWorkID)10699576(PQKB)10184150(MiAaPQ)EBC816831(MdBmJHUP)muse18199(EXLCZ)99267000000020561720120106d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora[electronic resource] Dublin, New Orleans, Paris /Elisa Joy WhiteBloomingtonn Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (356 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00125-0 0-253-00115-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 NigerBlacks in the diaspora.Community lifeFranceParisCommunity lifeLouisianaNew OrleansCommunity lifeIrelandDublinAfrican diasporaBlack peopleFranceParisSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditionsBlack peopleIrelandDublinSocial conditionsParis (France)Race relationsNew Orleans (La.)Race relationsDublin (Ireland)Race relationsElectronic books.Community lifeCommunity lifeCommunity lifeAfrican diaspora.Black peopleSocial conditions.African AmericansSocial conditions.Black peopleSocial conditions.305.896White Elisa Joy962713MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910462446903321Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora2182926UNINA