Research Catalog

Title

Blackening Europe : the African American presence / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez ; with a foreword by Paul Gilroy.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Raphael-Hernandez, Heike.

Description

xxii, 314 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Europe > Ethnic relations
• African American jazz musicians > Europe
• Blacks > Europe > Social conditions
• Europe > Race relations
• Blacks > Europe > Public opinion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Migrancy, culture, and a new map of Europe / Paul Gilroy -- Introduction: Making the African American experience primary / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- PART I: CREATING A FOUNDATION -- Jazz as decal for the European avant-garde / Jed Rasula -- Blackness as symptom: Josephine Baker and European identity / Samir Dayal -- "Jungle in the spotlight"?: primitivism and esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Black music, white freedom: times and spaces of jazz countercultures in the USSR / Irina Novikova -- PART II: ACCOMPANYING EUROPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Monuments of the black Atlantic: slavery memorials in the United States and the Netherlands / Johanna C. Kardux -- Dancing away toward home: an interview with Bill T. Jones about dancing in contemporary Europe / P.A. Skantze -- The melancholic influence of the postcolonial spectral: Vera Mantero summoning Josephine Baker / André Lepecki -- Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: from sorrow songs to Soleá and back / María Frías -- Monsieur hip-hop / Felicia McCarren -- Rap, rebounds, and Rocawear: the "darkening" of German youth culture / Cathy Covell Waegner -- A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the rest: Hungarian youth rapping / Éva Miklódy -- "But I ain't African, I'm American!": black American exiles and the construction of racial identities in twentieth-century France / Ch. Didier Gondola -- "Heroes across the sea": black and white British fascination with African Americans in the contemporary black British fiction by Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay / Alan Rice -- PART III: TURNING INTO THEORY FOR EUROPE -- Never shall we be slaves: Locke's treatises, slavery, and early European modernity / Sabine Broeck -- Make capital out of their sympathy: rhetoric and reality of U.S. slavery and Italian immigrant prostitution along the color line from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Peter Gardner -- Blackening gypsy slavery: the Romanian case / Mihaela Mudure -- "Niggas" and "skins": nihilism among African American youth in low-income urban communities and east German youth in satellite cities, small towns, and rural areas / Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Call Number

Sc E 04-81

ISBN

• 0415943981 (alk. paper)
• 041594399X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003009695

OCLC

52203438

Title

Blackening Europe : the African American presence / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez ; with a foreword by Paul Gilroy.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Raphael-Hernandez, Heike.

Research Call Number

Sc E 04-81