Afro-Nordic Landscapes - Equality and Race in Northern Europe

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans in Northern Europe in relation to national narratives, racism, and the African Diaspora, mapping the emerging multicultural realities of Europe.

List of contents

Foreword Paul Gilroy. Acknowledgments. Introduction Michael McEachrane Part I: The Nation 1. Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland Kristín Loftsdóttir 2. "Struggling to Be Recognized as Belonging to the Fauna of Norway": On Being Black Norwegian Women madeleine kennedy-macfoy 3. The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation About Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden Cecil Brown, Anne Dvinge, Petter Frost Fadnes, Johan Fornäs, Ole Izard Høyer, Marilyn Mazur, Michael McEachrane and John Tchicai Part II: Racism 4. There's a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe Michael McEachrane 5. Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake—An Email Conversation Beth Maina Ahlberg, Claudette Carr, Madubuko Diakité, Fatima El-Tayeb, Tobias Hübinette, Momodou Jallow, Victoria Kawesa, Michael McEachrane, Utz McKnight, Anders Neergaard, Shailja Patel, Kitimbwa Sabuni and Minna Salami 6. Being and Becoming Mixed Race, Black, Swedish and a Nomadic Subject Anna Adeniji 7. Bertrand Besigye's Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway Helena Karlsson 8. Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye: (i) How A Black African Orders Black Coffee (To Barack Hussein Obama); (ii) You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down. Or Black Hail Over All of West Side (Translated by John Irons) Bertrand Besigye Part III: Diaspora 9. Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland Anna Rastas 10. Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark Martyn Bone 11. A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe—An Email Conversation Abdalla Duh, Mohamed Husein Gaas, Abdalla Gasimelseed, Amel Gorani, Nauja Kleist, Anne Kubai, Michael McEachrane, Saifalyazal Omar, Tsegaye Tegenu and Marja Tiilikainen

About the author

Michael McEachrane is an independent scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Michael McEachrane
• Assisted by: Michael McEachrane (Editor), McEachrane Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415897433
• ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies