| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The anthropology of invisibility -- A nonracial education : on navigating diaspora, anti-Black caricature, and anthropology -- Remembering Khartoum and other tales of displacement -- The inexhaustible sense of exile : other cultures in the photographic imaginary -- Crossing modernity : the journey from imperial to diasporic nostalgia -- Sites of erasure : Black prisoners and the poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Comrade storyteller : diasporic encounters in the cinema of Ousmane Sembene -- Travel warnings : observations of voyages real and imagined |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Carter, Donald Martin, 1955-
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Carter, Donald Martin, 1955- fast |
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Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001 fast |
| Subject |
African diaspora.
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Photography in ethnology -- Africa
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Ethnology -- Africa.
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Invisibility in motion pictures.
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Senegalese -- Italy -- Social conditions
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Senegalese -- Race identity -- Italy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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African diaspora
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Ethnology
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Invisibility in motion pictures
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Photography in ethnology
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Senegalese -- Social conditions
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Africa
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009012485 |
| ISBN |
9780816673315 |
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0816673314 |
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9781452945927 |
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1452945926 |
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