[ecrea] New book: Migrating the Black Body Edited by Leigh Raiford & Heike Raphael-Hernandez

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/migrating-the-black-body

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*Migrating the Black Body***

*The African Diaspora and Visual Culture***

/Edited by Leigh Raiford & Heike Raphael-Hernandez///

/Migrating the Black Body/explores how visual media—from painting to 
photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from 
posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic 
novels—has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective 
self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black 
images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual 
encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how 
do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and 
subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of 
scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for 
the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as 
wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish 
imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American 
liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role 
of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its 
international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, 
both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.

*Leigh Raiford*is associate professor of African American studies at the 
University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of /Imprisoned in 
a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle/ 
and coeditor of /The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory/. *Heike 
Raphael-Hernandez* is professor of English at the University of Maryland 
University College, Europe and professor of American Studies at the 
University of Wurzburg, Germany. She is the author of /The Utopian 
Aesthetics of Three African American Women (Toni Morrison, Gloria 
Naylor, Julie Dash): The Principle of Hope/ and editor of /Blackening 
Europe: The African American Presence/. The contributors are Rushay 
Booysen, Kiersten Chace, Cedric Essi, Cheryl Finley, Robeson Taj 
Frazier, Sonja Georgi, Robin J. Hayes, Carsten Junker, Charles I. Nero, 
Irina Novikova, Tavia Nyong’o, Joachim Ostlund, Alan Rice, Julia Roth, 
Reginold Royston, Karen N. Salt, Darieck Scott, Krista Thompson, Pia 
Wiegmink, and Lyneise Williams.

University of Washington Press |  | March 2017| 392pp | 64 b&w illus., 
21 color plates | 9780295999562 | HB | £74.00*

20% discount with this code: CSL17MTBB**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, Canada & South America.


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