| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) |
| Series |
Anthropology online
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| Contents |
Setting Sail -- Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space -- 1981 --Genealogies : Place, Race, and Kinship -- Diaspora and Its Discontents : A Trilogy -- My City, My Self : A Folk Phenomenology -- A Slave to History : Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port -- The Ghost of Muriel Fletcher -- Local Women and Global Men : The Liverpool That Was -- POSTSCRIPT : The Leaving of Liverpool |
| Summary |
The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity.--From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people -- England -- Liverpool
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Black people
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Liverpool (England) -- Race relations
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Liverpool (England) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
England -- Liverpool
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400826414 |
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1400826411 |
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9780691115627 |
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0691115621 |
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9780691115634 |
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069111563X |
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