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| Figures | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| I | Celebrations | |
| 1 | Festive Rituals, Religious Associations, and Ethnic Reaffirmation of Black Andalusians: Antecedents of the Black Confraternities and Cabildos in the Americas | 3 |
| 2 | Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the Semana Santa (Ecuador) | 19 |
| 3 | Re-/Presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: "Filhas d'Oxum" in Bahia Carnival | 49 |
| 4 | Samba Schools: The Logic of Orgy and Blackness in Rio de Janeiro | 69 |
| 5 | On the Apparent Carnivalization of Literature from the French Caribbean | 91 |
| II | Social Arenas | |
| 6 | Kwanzaa and the U.S. Ethnic Mosaic | 101 |
| 7 | Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area | 123 |
| 8 | Uptown Ladies and Downtown Women: Female Representations of Class and Color in Jamaica | 147 |
| 9 | Representations of Blackness in Colombian Popular Music | 173 |
| III | African and Native American Perspectives | |
| 10 | In Memory of the Slaves: An African View of the Diaspora in the Americas | 195 |
| 11 | Imagery of "Blackness" in Indigenous Myth, Discourse, and Ritual | 213 |
| Bibliography | 235 | |
| Index | 255 | |
| About the Contributors | 261 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $131.95 | Digital |
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Bryan Tincher
reviewed Representations Of Blackness And The Performance Of Identities on December 05, 2010
Representations Of Blackness And The Performance Of Identities
When I first started reading this book - I thought to myself - who was this book written for - thinking that most black (if not all) know we are not monolithic, and the information at the beginning of the book was something that is known, so was thinking this book was probably written for a non-black audience. But, as I read on - I changed my mind as in this book Eugene Robinson convinced me this is a book for all people and depending on which group was reading/discussing the book - they would probably focus on different aspects of the book to discuss - but there is much food for thought.
I thought the value of the book is - Recording what is known and give a baseline to either fine tune/validate/refine the current view of Black American and how can this knowledge be used to help understand how we proceed in this changing American society.
I liked how Robinson wove his personal history and the history/events of pre-Civil Rights Black American to help inform how Black America has changed from "one" into the "four".
This was a quick read due mainly to Robinson's writing style that flowed easily from one concept to the next and was able to concisely state his points.
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