Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
ISBN
9780226923024
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Of Natives and Europeans: Colonialism and the Ethnicization of Racial Dominance
2. “Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom”: The Postcolony and Racial Formation
3. “You Are Rich Because You Are White”: Marking Race and Signifying Whiteness
4. The Fact of Lightness: Skin Bleaching and the Colored Codes of Racial Aesthetics
5. Slavery and Pan-Africanist Triumph: Heritage Tourism and State Racecraft
6. “Are You a Black American?”: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
7. Race across the Atlantic . . . and Back: Theorizing Africa and/in the Diaspora
EPILOGUE - Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa, Interrogating Diaspora
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References
Index
Introduction
1. Of Natives and Europeans: Colonialism and the Ethnicization of Racial Dominance
2. “Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom”: The Postcolony and Racial Formation
3. “You Are Rich Because You Are White”: Marking Race and Signifying Whiteness
4. The Fact of Lightness: Skin Bleaching and the Colored Codes of Racial Aesthetics
5. Slavery and Pan-Africanist Triumph: Heritage Tourism and State Racecraft
6. “Are You a Black American?”: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
7. Race across the Atlantic . . . and Back: Theorizing Africa and/in the Diaspora
EPILOGUE - Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa, Interrogating Diaspora
Notes
References
Index