Foreword ix
Philomena Essed
Preface xvii
Darlene Clark Hine
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back xxiii
Stephen Small
Section1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe
1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch 3
Allison Blakely
2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands 29
Dienke Hondius
3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and
the Problem of Color 48
Eileen Julien
4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject 63
Tina M. Campt
5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental
Diasporic Identity 84
T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Section 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy
6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question
and Questioning Solidarity 95
Trica Danielle Keaton
7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa 119
Alessandra Di Maio
8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness"
Reclaimed 145
Fred Constant
9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German
Popular Music 161
Alexander G. Weheliye
10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France 180
Tyler Stovall
Section 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In
Europe
11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location 201
Jacqueline Nassy Brown
12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for
Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia 212
Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small
13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris 238
Terri Francis
14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the
African Diaspora 260
Michelle M. Wright
15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe... 277
Gloria Wekker
Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability 291
Barnor Hesse
Notes on Contributors 305
Index 311
