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1 online resource |
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Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
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"Jamaica crawled up into my soul": black women, affect, and the promise of diaspora interlude -- More than a groove: pursuing happiness as a political project interlude -- "Giving back" to Jamaica: community and conflict while traveling with diasporic heart interlude -- Why Jamaica? Seeking the fantasy of a black paradise interlude -- Breaking (it) down: gender, emotional entanglements, and the realities of romance tourism interlude -- Navigating (virtual) Jamaica: online diasporic contact zones interlude -- From girlfriend, to sistren, to ethnographer and back: lessons learned |
| Summary |
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
African American women -- Race identity -- Jamaica
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African American women -- Race identity -- United States
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African American women -- Travel -- Jamaica
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African American women -- Jamaica -- Ethnic identity
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African American women -- United States -- Ethnic identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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African American women -- Race identity
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Jamaica
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017044098 |
| ISBN |
9780822372134 |
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0822372134 |
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0822370255 |
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9780822370369 |
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0822370360 |
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9780822370253 |
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