Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race / Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke 1

Part I. Diasporic Movements, Missions and Modernities

Missionary Positions / Lee D. Baker 37

History at the Crossroads: Vodu and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands / Robert L. Adams 55

Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America” in Black Liverpool / Jacqueline Nassy Brown 73

Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines / Tina M. Campt 93

“Mama, I’m Walking to Canada”: Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires / Naomi Pabst 112

Part II. Geograpies of Racial Belonging

Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage / Kamari Maxine Clarke 133

Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde / Kesha Fikes 154

Folkloric “Others”: Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau 171

Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality / John L. Jackson Jr. 188

Recasting “Black Venus” in the “New” African Dispora / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe 206

“Shooting the White Girl First”: Race in Post-aparteid South Africa / Grant Farred 226

Part III. Popular Blacknesses, “Authenticity,” and New Measures of Legitimacy

Havana’s Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 249

Reading Buffy and “Looking Proper”: Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka Labennett 279

The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London / Raymond Codrington 299

Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm’s African Dance Courses / Lena Sawyer 316

Modern Blackness: Progress, “America,” and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas 335

Bibliography 355

Contributors 391

Index 395

Deborah A. Thomas

Lee D. Baker

Robert Lee Adams, Jr.

Jacqueline N. Brown

Tina M. Campt

Naomi Pabst

Kesha Fikes

Isar Godreau

John L. Jackson

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

Grant Farred

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

Oneka LaBennett

Raymond Codrington

Lena Sawyer

Kamari Maxine Clarke

“An interesting and useful book that will undoubtedly appear on many reading lists, this volume is welcome for its explicit aim of paying close attention to global processes in the construction of race.” — Peter Wade, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This volume is a must read for researchers, policymakers, and students interested in understanding how, as our authors remind us, contemporary transformations command us to think about racial formation, not as an end in itself, but as a process—one that articulates with other processes on a global scale.” — Yolanda T. Moses, The Journal of African American History

“Through this book, I have come to realize the changing meanings and politics of blackness, and how the contemporary processes of globalization are both changing and being shaped by these changes. As a reader you are bound to realize the same.” — Olasunkanmi Sholarin, Leeds African Studies Bulletin

“An interesting and useful book that will undoubtedly appear on many reading lists, this volume is welcome for its explicit aim of paying close attention to global processes in the construction of race.” —Peter Wade, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This volume is a must read for researchers, policymakers, and students interested in understanding how, as our authors remind us, contemporary transformations command us to think about racial formation, not as an end in itself, but as a process—one that articulates with other processes on a global scale.” —Yolanda T. Moses, The Journal of African American History

“Through this book, I have come to realize the changing meanings and politics of blackness, and how the contemporary processes of globalization are both changing and being shaped by these changes. As a reader you are bound to realize the same.” —Olasunkanmi Sholarin, Leeds African Studies Bulletin

“Globalization and Race will be an invaluable resource for courses on diaspora, anthropology, and cultural studies. The keen attention to subjectivities created through discourses and practices that figure race, gender, class, national, and continental differences in global contexts makes this volume distinctive.” — Paulla A. Ebron, author of, Performing Africa

“Contrary to the glib forecasts of many academic and journalistic pundits, race is not going away; rather it is energetically reorganizing itself and working through new global divisions. Globalization and Race examines this new context by inquiring into the various ways that emerging global processes are fundamentally reshaping the way people of African descent experience and theorize racial identity.” — David Scott, author of, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

“Globalization and Race is an invaluable resource for anyone in the humanities or the social sciences who wants to understand how the contemporary politics of race is being re-conceptualized. The essays cover a wide range of topics and provide new theoretical vocabularies not only for understanding the globalizing forces of capital, labor, and technologies, but for the new hierarchies of racial ordering which emerge in their wake. This will quickly become the standard work in the field.” — Hazel V. Carby, author of, Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America

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