McNeil Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic

Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-135-15663-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the construction of mixed-race femininity and masculinity during the twentieth century. Its broad scope and historical approach provides readers with a timely rejoinder to academics, artists, journalists and politicians who only use the mixed-race label to depict prophets or delinquents as "new" national icons for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNeil, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. New People? 2. An Individualistic Age? 3. “Je suis métisse" 4. “I. Am. A Light Grey Canadian.” 5. “I’m Black. Not Mixed. Not Canadian. Not African. Just Black” 6. “Yes, We’re All Individuals!” “I’m Not.” Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel McNeil teaches Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation.