Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

A propos de l'auteur

Violet Showers Johnson is Associate Dean and Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. She is author of 'The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950' (Indiana University Press, 2006); co-author of 'African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America' (NYU Press, 2014); and co-editor of 'Western Fictions, Black Realities: Meanings of Blackness and Modernities' (Lit Verlag and Michigan State University Press, 2012).
Gundolf Graml is Associate Professor and Director of German Studies at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
Patricia Williams Lessane is Executive Director of The College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and tenured librarian at Addlestone Library.

Résumé

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Violet Graml Showers Johnson
• Collaboration: Gundolf Graml (Editeur), Violet Showers Johnson (Editeur), Patricia Williams Lessane (Editeur)
• Edition: Liverpool University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800855793
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-579-3
• Pages: 200
• Thème: FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies)
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Théories politiques et histoire des idées