LEADER 04314nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910461897003321 005 20220207174142.0 010 $a1-283-74250-0 010 $a0-226-92304-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226923048 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276364 035 $a(OCoLC)819853928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10620939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000761593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12368742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000761593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10726271 035 $a(PQKB)10089630 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000101018 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1058159 035 $a(DE-B1597)524491 035 $a(OCoLC)1058360543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226923048 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1058159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10620939 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL405500 035 $a(OCoLC)819136631 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276364 100 $a20120321h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe predicament of blackness$b[electronic resource] $epostcolonial Ghana and the politics of race /$fJemima Pierre 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-226-92303-7 311 $a0-226-92302-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tONE. Of Natives and Europeans: Colonialism and the Ethnicization of Racial Dominance --$tTWO. "Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom": The Postcolony and Racial Formation --$tTHREE. "You Are Rich Because You Are White": Marking Race and Signifying Whiteness --$tFOUR. The Fact of Lightness: Skin Bleaching and the Colored Codes of Racial Aesthetics --$tFIVE. Slavery and Pan-Africanist Triumph: Heritage Tourism as State Racecraft --$tSIX. "Are You a Black American?": Race and the Politics of African-Diaspora Interactions --$tSEVEN. Race across the Atlantic . . . and Back: Theorizing Africa and/in the Diaspora --$tEPILOGUE. Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa, and Interrogating Diaspora --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aWhat is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space-as a fixed historic source for the African diaspora-she envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Against the backdrop of Ghana's history as a major port in the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent and disruptive forces of colonialism and postcolonialism, Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of "whiteness" to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African "heritage tourism." Drawing these and other examples together, she shows that race and racism have not only persisted in Ghana after colonialism, but also that the beliefs and practices of this modern society all occur within a global racial hierarchy. In doing so, she provides a powerful articulation of race on the continent and a new way of understanding contemporary Africa-and the modern African diaspora. 606 $aBlack people$xRace identity$zGhana 606 $aRace awareness$zGhana 606 $aHeritage tourism$zGhana 606 $aAfrican diaspora 607 $aGhana$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBlack people$xRace identity 615 0$aRace awareness 615 0$aHeritage tourism 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a305.8009667 686 $aMK 2700$2rvk 700 $aPierre$b Jemima$0975601 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461897003321 996 $aThe predicament of blackness$92221474 997 $aUNINA