9780295999586 (electronic bk.)

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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Introduction / Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Part 1. Making Blackness serve. Containing bodies - enscandalizing enslavement : stasis and movement at the juncture of slave-ship images and texts / Carsten Junker ; Russian blackamoors : from grand-manner portraiture to Alphabet in pictures / Irina Novikova ; Migrating images of the Black body politic and the sovereign state : Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt ; Playing the white knight : Badin, chess, and Black self-fashioning in eighteenth-century Sweden / Joachim Östlund ; Making Blackness serve China : the image of Afro-Asia in Chinese political posters / Robeson Taj Frazier

Part 2. Dreaming diasporas. The glamorous one-two punch : visualizing celebrity, masculinity, and boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in early twentieth-century Paris / Lyneise Williams ; The here and now of Eslanda Robeson's African journey / Leigh Raiford ; Black and Cuba : an interview with filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth ; Return to which roots? Interracial documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliachi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi ; Dreaming diasporas / Cheryl Finley

Part 3. Differently Black. Differently Black : the fourth great migration and Black Catholic saints in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye solo and Jim Sheridan's In America / Charles I. Nero ; Coloured in South Africa : an interview with filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink ; When home meets diaspora at the door of no return : cinematic encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez ; Of plastic ducks and cockle pickers : African Atlantic artists and critiques of bonded labor across chronologies / Alan Rice ; At home, online : affective exchange and the diasporic body in Ghanaian internet video / Reginold A. Royston

Part 4. Afro-fabulation. Habeas ficta : fictive ethnicity, affecting representations, and slaves on screen / Tavia Nyong'o ; The Black body as photographic image : video light in postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson ; The Not-Yet Justice League : fantasy, redress, and transatlantic Black history on the comic book page / Darieck Scott.

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