{"product_id":"modernity-freedom-and-the-african-diaspora-dublin-new-orleans-paris-paperback-softback-9780253001252","title":"Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora; Dublin, New Orleans, Paris (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253001252","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDublin, New Orleans, Paris\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElisa Joy White (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253001252\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 June 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e356 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.499 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\u003cp\u003eModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora . . . is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudents and lecturers\/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation.\u003c\/p\u003e (readthinkwriteteach.com) \u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eWhite should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research. . . . Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e (International Social Science Review) \u003cp\u003eWhat this study accomplishes, and quite successfully, is constructing an important expansion of modernity to make room for the complications of white racism impacting African diasporic communities.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of African American History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eElisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events—the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs—White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society\u003cbr\u003e 2. Status, Numbers, and the \"Retro\" Revealed\u003cbr\u003e 3. Media Representation and Black Presence\u003cbr\u003e 4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Community in the Making\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2. The Glitches of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case\u003cbr\u003e 7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity\u003cbr\u003e 8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern Future\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523559289112,"sku":"9780253001252","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modernity-freedom-and-the-african-diaspora-dublin-new-orleans-paris-paperback-softback-9780253001252","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}