Afro-Nordic Landscapes: equality and race in Northern Europe

CONTENTS
Foreword Paul Gilroy.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction Michael McEachrane

PART I: The Nation

1. Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland
- Kristín Loftsdóttir

2. "Struggling to Be Recognized as Belonging to the Fauna of Norway": On Being Black Norwegian Women
- madeleine kennedy-macfoy

3. The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation About Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- Cecil Brown, Anne Dvinge, Petter Frost Fadnes, Johan Fornäs, Ole Izard Høyer, Marilyn Mazur, Michael McEachrane and John Tchicai

PART II: Racism
4. There's a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe
- Michael McEachrane

5. Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake—An Email Conversation
- Beth Maina Ahlberg, Claudette Carr, Madubuko Diakité, Fatima El-Tayeb, Tobias Hübinette, Momodou Jallow, Victoria Kawesa, Michael McEachrane, Utz McKnight, Anders Neergaard, Shailja Patel, Kitimbwa Sabuni and Minna Salami 6. Being and Becoming Mixed Race, Black, Swedish and a Nomadic Subject Anna Adeniji

7. Bertrand Besigye's Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway
- Helena Karlsson

8. Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye: (i) How A Black African Orders Black Coffee (To Barack Hussein Obama); (ii) You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down. Or Black Hail Over All of West Side (Translated by John Irons)
- Bertrand Besigye

PART III: Diaspora
9. Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland
- Anna Rastas

10. Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark Martyn Bone

11. A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe—An Email Conversation
- Abdalla Duh, Mohamed Husein Gaas, Abdalla Gasimelseed, Amel Gorani, Nauja Kleist, Anne Kubai, Michael McEachrane, Saifalyazal Omar, Tsegaye Tegenu and Marja Tiilikainen