03565nam 2200745Ia 450 991080732330332120200520144314.01-280-69648-697866136734420-253-00128-5(CKB)2670000000205617(EBL)816831(OCoLC)796384106(SSID)ssj0000678401(PQKBManifestationID)11387195(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678401(PQKBWorkID)10699576(PQKB)10184150(MiAaPQ)EBC816831(MdBmJHUP)muse18199(EXLCZ)99267000000020561720120106d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModernity, freedom, and the African diaspora Dublin, New Orleans, Paris /Elisa Joy White1st ed.Bloomingtonn 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.BlacksIrelandDublinSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditionsBlacksFranceParisSocial conditionsAfrican diasporaCommunity lifeIrelandDublinCommunity lifeLouisianaNew OrleansCommunity lifeFranceParisDublin (Ireland)Race relationsNew Orleans (La.)Race relationsParis (France)Race relationsBlacksSocial conditions.African AmericansSocial conditions.BlacksSocial conditions.African diaspora.Community lifeCommunity lifeCommunity life305.896White Elisa Joy1669010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807323303321Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora4030003UNINA