Krystal Smalls

Telling Blackness

Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

Telling Blackness looks at the everyday lives of a small group of young Liberians in the US as they make meaning about being Black, African, Liberian, and human in ways that counter dominant antiblack meanings and that inform how they relate to Black people from different parts of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780197697580
• ISBN-10: 0197697585
• Artikelnr.: 68213985

Autorenporträt

Krystal A. Smalls is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Telling Blackness and Black Livingness in (Anti)Black
America
* 1 Telling Blackness Through Liberia
* 2 Telling Through Love: A Methodology for Testifying to Black Life
* 3 Telling Time and Black Personhood in Early Liberia and Beyond
* 4 The Loom of Loss: Telling as Transitive Ante-Narrative
* 5 Sense and Sensibility: Ways of Relating and Black Diasporic
Languaging
* 6 Sounding Off: Sonic Cartographies of Black Diasporic Girlhood
* Conclusion: Telling, Meaning, and Mattering