M. Marable & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Transnational Blackness 
Navigating the Global Color Line

Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the world.

Table of Content

Introduction: Blackness Beyond Boundaries; M.Marable PART I: THEORIZING RACE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Race and Globalization: Racialization from Below; L.Mullings Racism in a Time of Terror: Notes from Ground Zero, 2001; M.Marable Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights; F.V.Harrison The Modern World Racial System; H.Winant The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood; A.W.Marx PART II: INTERROGATING RACE AND RACISM IN THE AMERICAS A Tale of Two Barrios: Puerto Rican Youth and the Politics of Belonging; G.M.Pérez Reinventing the Jamaican Political System; B.Meeks Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis; J.Jordan PART III: MUTUAL INSPIRATION: RADICALS IN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE The Havana Afrocubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance: The Role of the Intellectual in the Formation of Racial and National Identity; R.R.Laremont & L.Yun Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey : The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora; M.Mahon Du Bois’s Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Negritude; M.Q.Sawyer ‘Long Live Third World Unity! Long Live Internationalism’: Huey P. Newton’s Revolutionary Intercommunalism; B.Rodriguez ‘A Free Black Mind is a Concealed Weapon’: Institutions and Social Movements in the African Diaspora; R.Hayes PART IV: EUROPE AND ASIA ON THE COLOR LINE Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy; G.Horne Whiting, Femme Negritude: Jane Nardal, La Depeche Africaine, and the Francophone New Negro; T.D.Sharpley In Denial: Racial Profiling in Europe; C.Lusane PART V: CRAFTING RESISTANCE: IDENTITY, NARRATIVE, AND AGENCY Salvaging Lives in the African Diaspora: Anthropology, Ethnography, and Women’s Narratives; I.Mc Claurin Going Back To Our Own: Interpreting Malcolm X’s Transition From ‘Black Asiatic’ to ‘Afro-American’; L.Mazucci Linking African And Asian in Passing And Passage; L.Yun Out of Chaos: Afro-Colombian Peace Communities and the Realities of War; A.Angel-Ajani PART VI: RE/TURNING (TO) THE SOURCE: RACE AND POWER IN AFRICA African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition; K.K.Gaines ‘Crimes of History’: Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery; M.Ralph Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana, 1959-1962; J.Allman

About the author

MANNING MARABLE is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, USA.

 
VANESSA AGARD-JONES is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and French Studies at New York University, USA and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Audre Lorde Project: A Community Organizing Center for LGBTST People of Color in New York City.