Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 362 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780816647781
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9780816647774
Content:
Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The per
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Anthropology of Invisibility; 1 A Nonracial Education: On Navigating Diaspora, Anti-Black Caricature, and Anthropology; 2 Remembering Khartoum and Other Tales of Displacement; 3 The Inexhaustible Sense of Exile: Other Cultures in the Photographic Imaginary; 4 Crossing Modernity: The Journey from Imperial to Diasporic Nostalgia; 5 Sites of Erasure: Black Prisoners and the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor; 6 Comrade Storyteller: Diasporic Encounters in the Cinema of Ousmane Sembene; 7 Travel Warnings: Observations of Voyages Real and Imagined
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NotesBibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816647774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Navigating the African Diaspora : The Anthropology of Invisibility
Language:
English
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