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1. Introduction Fassil Demissie 2. Deconstructing invisibility: race and politics of visual cultu... more 1. Introduction Fassil Demissie 2. Deconstructing invisibility: race and politics of visual culture in Brazil Julio Cesar de Tavares 3. Retaking the Middle Passage: glimpses of a modern African diaspora in Brazil Wangui Kimari 4. Afro-Brazilian poetry: a laboratory of identity Cyril Vettorato 5. Blackness in movement: identifying with capoeira Angola in and out of Brazil Scott Head and Heloisa Gravina 6. The jogo de capoeira and the fallacy of 'creole' cultural forms T.J. Desch Obi 7. A Benca: The Blessings of the Bando de Teatro Olodum Cheryl Sterling 8. Food and spirits: religion, gender, and identity in the 'African' cuisine of Northeast Brazil Allan Charles Dawson 9. Black leaders and their concept of freedom in nineteenth century northeast Brazil Tshombe Miles 10. The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: an insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement Merle L. Bowen 11. Race talk in a public high school in Salvador Bahia: discourses of power and resistance Jenifer Crawford-Lima, Jadiel Navarro Lima, Luis Carlos Ferreiro and Adilbenia Freire Machado
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Preface 1. What if diasporas didn't think about development?: a critical approach of the inte... more Preface 1. What if diasporas didn't think about development?: a critical approach of the international discourse on migration and development 2. 'Saving the Congo': transnational social fields and politics of home in the Congolese diaspora 3. Immigrants and transnational engagement in the diaspora: Ghana associations in Italy and the United Kingdom 4. Guinea-Bissau immigrant transnationalism in Portugal: A substitute for a failed state? 5. Being here and there: migrant communities in Sweden and the conflicts in the Horn of Africa 6. From 'remittance' to 'tax': the shifting meaning and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state 7. Transnational mobility, social capital and cosmopolitan women traders in Ghana 8. 'Voting with their feet': Senegalese youth, clandestine boat migration and the gendered politics of protest 9. Affective economies: Eastleigh's metalogistics, urban anxieties and the mapping of diasporic city life
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1. The new scramble over Africa's farmland: an introduction 2. Geopolitical drivers of foreig... more 1. The new scramble over Africa's farmland: an introduction 2. Geopolitical drivers of foreign investment in African land and water resources 3. The perils of development from above: land deals in Ethiopia 4. Forest investments and channels of contestation in highland Ethiopia 5. Scrambling for the promised land: land acquisitions and the politics of representation in post-war Acholi, northern Uganda 6. Asian capitalism, primitive accumulation, and the new enclosures in Uganda 7. Land grab in new garb: Chinese special economic zones in Africa The case of Mauritius 8. Fixity, the discourse of efficiency, and enclosure in the Sahelian land 'reserve' 9. Water resources and biofuel production after the fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe
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Social Identities, 2003
The Exposition Coloniale Internationale held in Paris from 6 May to 15 November 19311 was the ven... more The Exposition Coloniale Internationale held in Paris from 6 May to 15 November 19311 was the venue for the annual meeting of the prestigious French National Zoological Society. In his keynote address to the dignitaries assembled at this site of colonial extravaganza, ...
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American Anthropologist, 1995
MUSEUMS IN OUR postcolonial world face many chal-lenging issues including representing cultures w... more MUSEUMS IN OUR postcolonial world face many chal-lenging issues including representing cultures with collec-tions formed in an earlier time, situating objects in their social and historical contexts, and actively involving rep-resentatives or descendants in museum productions, ...
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Far removed from the glitzy shopping districts of the 'Magnificent Mile'of Michigan Ave... more Far removed from the glitzy shopping districts of the 'Magnificent Mile'of Michigan Avenue, the fashionable condominiums of Streetville and the 'pleasure zones' of North side where the wealthiest Chicagoans live, shop and entertain themselves, a drive south on the Dan ...
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