LEADER 03565nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910807323303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-69648-6 010 $a9786613673442 010 $a0-253-00128-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000205617 035 $a(EBL)816831 035 $a(OCoLC)796384106 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11387195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699576 035 $a(PQKB)10184150 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816831 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18199 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000205617 100 $a20120106d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernity, freedom, and the African diaspora $eDublin, New Orleans, Paris /$fElisa Joy White 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomingtonn $cIndiana University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 225 1 $aBlacks in the diaspora 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00125-0 311 $a0-253-00115-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aElisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Niger 410 0$aBlacks in the diaspora. 606 $aBlacks$zIreland$zDublin$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican Americans$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xSocial conditions 606 $aBlacks$zFrance$zParis$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican diaspora 606 $aCommunity life$zIreland$zDublin 606 $aCommunity life$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aCommunity life$zFrance$zParis 607 $aDublin (Ireland)$xRace relations 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xRace relations 607 $aParis (France)$xRace relations 615 0$aBlacks$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aBlacks$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 615 0$aCommunity life 615 0$aCommunity life 615 0$aCommunity life 676 $a305.896 700 $aWhite$b Elisa Joy$01669010 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807323303321 996 $aModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora$94030003 997 $aUNINA