Full Description
Black Immigrants in North America is a collection of cutting-edge essays from renowned scholar Awad Ibrahim. He tackles difficult and challenging topics at a time when the political climate encourages some to engage in "immigrant bashing," making the publication of this volume more urgent than ever.
When dealing with immigration and immigrants, Black immigrants are hardly mentioned, particularly continental Africans. Ibrahim discussed and analyzes subjects ranging from Critical Race Theory to an economy of hospitality to the intersection of race, language, and identity. This book is destined to be a foundational text in a variety of courses dealing with race and immigration.
Contents
Immigrating While Black: An Introduction
1. One is not born Black: Becoming and the phenomenon(ology) of race
2. The (un)naturalization of Blackness: A rhizomatic analysis of Blackness
3. Body without organs: Notes on Deleuze & Guattari, critical race theory and the socius of anti-racism
4. The question of the question is the foreigner: Towards an economy of hospitality
5. Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, race, gender, identity, and the politics of ESL learning
6. Intersecting language, immigration, and the politics of becoming Black: Journaling a Black immigrant displacement
7. The new flâneur: Subaltern cultural studies, African youth in Canada, and the semiology of in-betweenness
8. Don't call me Black! Rhizomatic analysis of Blackness, immigration, and the politics of race without guarantees
9. When neoliberalism meets race, post-colonial displacement and immigration, it creates Americanah: A teacher education complicated conversation
10. Operating under erasure: Hip-Hop and the pedagogy of affect
11. Research as an act of love: Ethics, émigrés, and the praxis of becoming human
12. Wide-awakeness: Toward a critical pedagogy of imagination, humanism and becoming
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