{"product_id":"black-is-the-journey-africana-the-name-hardback-9781509548323","title":"Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Hardback) 9781509548323","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack is the Journey, Africana the Name\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaboula Soumahoro (Author), Kaiama Glover (Translated by), Saidiya Hartman (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509548323, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.1 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm, 0.249 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Maboula’s writing is a resolute respiration which, line after line, exposes and challenges the suffocating violence of racism à la française. This is an intimate text that will change how you look at race and blackness.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMame-Fatou Niang, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdentités françaises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience, and its own modes of visibility, invisibility, silence, and amplification of Black life. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, Maboula Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today, and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow can we build and reflect on a collective diasporic identity through a personal journey? What are the limits and possibilities of this endeavor, when the personal journey is that of oft-erased bodies and stories, de-humanized lives, and when Black populations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe identify and misidentify with each other, their sensibilities shaped by the particular locales in which their lives unfold?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book makes an important intellectual contribution to contemporary public conversations and theoretical inquiry into race, racism, blackness, and identity today, as it probes and questions the academic methodologies that have functioned as structures of exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword – Saidiya Hartman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Black speech \/ Speaking blackness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       On diaspora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       What is this “I”?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Triangle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Chronotope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Scholarly and personal implications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       An intellectual tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       The question of return\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e University Trajectory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Black orbit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Studying in France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Studying overseas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Hexagon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       “For the great MCs, on behalf of a grateful ‘hood’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       2005: “Right the wrong, by any means necessary”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Public discourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Black History Month (BHM) \/ Africana Days\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       To be done with the burden of race\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. 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