Black is the journey, Africana the name /

Black is the journey, Africana the name /

"In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soumahoro, Maboula, 1976- (Author)
Other Authors: Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2022]
Edition:English edition.
Series:Critical South.
Subjects:
Soumahoro, Maboula, > 1976-
Black people > France > Biography.
Women, Black > France > Biography.
Black people > Race identity > France.
Women, Black > Race identity > France.
Racism > France.
Noirs > France > Biographies.
Noires > France > Biographies.
Noires > Identité ethnique > France.
Racisme > France.
Black people.
Black people > Race identity.
Racism.
Women, Black.
France.
Biography
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Saidiya Hartman
  • Introduction. Black speech/speaking blackness
  • The triangle
  • University trajectory
  • The hexagon
  • Conclusion: The orbs are black, or, what beauty owes to chaos.