Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ 3

Reflecting current debates in the intersecting fields of African American
Studies and African Diaspora, these critical essays and case studies explore
the articulation between the fluctuating concepts of ‘race’ and Diaspora and
the negotiations of identities across differences. They examine in turn the
developments of diasporic black (inter)nationalism, new discourses on
‘postraciality’ and ‘postblackness’, race consciousness among African American
soldiers, expatriation and re-diasporization. The acknowledgement of a
rejection of Africanness in societies such as the Emirates, Morocco or the
Dominican Republic dialogues with examinations of artwork through the lenses
of a diasporic consciousness and analyses of literary texts that celebrate
internationalism or subvert the notion of ‘race’. James Baldwin thus converses
with Percival Everett.