Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

Scattered Belongings (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about ordinary lives faced with the dilemmas of not being 'black' or 'white' in a world which seems to be perceived on these terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000142945
• Artikelnr.: 59826788

Autorenporträt

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of East London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Prologue
A cknowledgements
1 Cracking the coconut: resisting popular folk discourses on "race," "mixed race" and social hierarchies
2 Returning(s): relocating the critical feminist autoethnographer
3 Setting the stage: invoking the griot(te) traditions as textual strategies
Preamble: could I be a part of your family? Preliminary /contextualizing thoughts on psychocultural politics of transracial placements and adoption
4 Ruby
5 Similola
6 Akousa
7 Sarah
8 Bisi
9 Yemi
10 Let Blackness and Whiteness wash through: competing discourses on bi
racialization and the compulsion of genealogical erasures
Epilogue
Select Bibliographies
Index.