ISBN:
9780816647781
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9780816647774
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 362 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Navigating the African Diaspora : The Anthropology of Invisibility
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Senghor, Léopold Sédar Criticism and interpretation
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Carter, Donald Martin
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Senegalese Social conditions
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Senegalese Race identity
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Photography in ethnology
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Ethnology
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African diaspora
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Invisibility in motion pictures
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African diaspora
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Carter, Donald Martin ; 1955-
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Ethnology ; Africa
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Invisibility in motion pictures
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Photography in ethnology ; Africa
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Senegalese ; Italy ; Social conditions
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Senghor, Léopold Sédar ; 1906-2001 ; Criticism and interpretation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
NotesBibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816647774.001.0001
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