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In Senghor's shadow : art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960-1995
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ISBN: 128302392X 9786613023926 0822386054 Year: 2004 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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A study of art in post-independence Senegal.

La question nègre
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ISBN: 2747555941 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Editions L'Harmattan,

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Becoming black : creating identity in the African diaspora
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ISBN: 0822332884 0822332116 Year: 2004 Publisher: Durham London : Duke University Press,

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Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers, she also highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity. Wright argues that three nineteenth-century American and European works addressing race-Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, G. W. F. Hegel's Philosophy of History, and Count Arthur de Gobineau's Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races-were particularly influential in shaping twentieth-century ideas about Black subjectivity. She considers these treatises in depth and describes how the revolutionary Black thinkers W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon countered the theories they promulgated. She explains that while Du Bois, Césaire, Senghor, and Fanon rejected the racist ideologies of Jefferson, Hegel, and Gobineau, for the most part they did so within what remained a nationalist, patriarchal framework. Such persistent nationalist and sexist ideologies were later subverted, Wright shows, in the work of Black women writers including Carolyn Rodgers and Audre Lorde and, more recently, the British novelists Joan Riley, Naomi King, Jo Hodges, and Andrea Levy. By considering diasporic writing ranging from Du Bois to Lorde to the contemporary African novelists Simon Njami and Daniel Biyaoula, Wright reveals Black subjectivity as rich, varied, and always evolving.

Race and ethnicity
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ISSN: 15734234 ISBN: 9004139915 9786610915460 9047405943 1280915463 1429408391 9781429408394 9789004139916 9781280915468 6610915466 9789047405948 Year: 2004 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain imprevious to many of us. Hence in this volume authors were challenged to think outside the box. As such, scholars were encouraged to dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity from radically different perspectives. This critical process required them to evaluate their own assumptions and those of their respective disciplines. Therefore, much like walking a tight-rope without a net, the scholars attempt to free themselves from the disciplinarian blinders that often preclude the development of fresh insights. Collectively the papers challenge the way we conceive and perceive of race and ethnicity. As a consequence they go past the ideological constraints that normally limit such discourse by disciplinarian boundaries or disciplinarian myopia. Therefore, these papers provide a critical reappraisal of race and ethnicity.

Righteous propagation
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ISBN: 0807875945 9780807875940 9780807829028 0807829021 9780807855676 0807855677 0807829021 0807855677 9798890877147 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. , Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny".

Black sexual politics
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ISBN: 0415930995 0203309502 9780203309506 041595150X 9780415951500 9780415930994 0415931002 9780415931007 1135955387 9781135955380 9781135955373 1135955379 128004800X 9781135955335 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York

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In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.

Négrologie : pourquoi l'Afrique meurt
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ISBN: 2702133347 9782702133347 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Calmann-Lévy,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "" L'Afrique noire est mal partie ", alertait René Dumont en 1962, alors que le " soleil des indépendances " venait de se lever sur le continent, résolu à prendre son destin en main. Quarante ans plus tard, mal partie et jamais arrivée, l'Afrique se meurt : 3,3 millions de victimes dans la guerre au Congo-Kinshasa, 800 000 Tutsi massacrés lors du génocide au Rwanda, 200 000 Hutu tués au cours de leur fuite à travers l'ex-Zaïre, 300 000 morts au Burundi, autant en Somalie, sans parler du Soudan, du Congo-Brazzaville, du Liberia, de la Sierra Leone, de la Côte d'Ivoire... La moitié dû continent est dévastée par des " guerres d'écorcheurs " ; l'autre vivote entre crise et corruption, tribalisme et anarchie. Emigration clandestine, fuite des cerveaux : les meilleurs partent. Dans nombre de pays, les fonctionnaires cumulent des mois, voire des années, d'arriérés de salaire, les hôpitaux sont des mouroirs, les écoles fermées. L'Etat s'effondre. Seuls quelques îlots émergent dans un océan de malheur. Le sida frappe partout, emporte les élites, réduit l'espérance de vie de quinze à vingt ans. Pourquoi l'Afrique meurt-elle ? Après avoir été martyrisée par la traite esclavagiste et soumise par le colonialisme, l'Afrique, handicapée dans le commerce international, en retard sur tous les plans, se suicide. Ses habitants, tétanisés par un présent qui n'a pas d'avenir, s'enferment dans un autisme identitaire. Face à la mondialisation, ils capitulent en postulant " l'homme noir " irréductible à l'universel."

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Third World: economic development problems --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Internal politics --- Political sociology --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Civil war --- Political violence --- Social conflict --- Postcolonialism --- Guerre civile --- Violence politique --- Conflits sociaux --- Postcolonialisme --- Economic aspects --- Aspect économique --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Ethnic relations --- Political aspects --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Relations interethniques --- Aspect politique --- History --- 338 <6> --- 355.426 <6> --- 341.48 <6> --- 308 <6> --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Afrika --- Oproer. Burgeroorlog. Straatgevechten--Afrika --- Misdaden tegen de mensheid. Volkerenmoord--Afrika --- Sociografie. Sociaal economische geografie. Sociale toestand--Afrika --- #A0505PSA --- 308 <6> Sociografie. Sociaal economische geografie. Sociale toestand--Afrika --- 341.48 <6> Misdaden tegen de mensheid. Volkerenmoord--Afrika --- 355.426 <6> Oproer. Burgeroorlog. Straatgevechten--Afrika --- 338 <6> Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Afrika --- Aspect économique --- Négritude --- Conflits de basse intensité --- Civilization --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Civilisation. --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- Négritude --- Conflits de basse intensité --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- 922 --- Afrique histoire --- développement --- politique mondiale --- geschiedenis Afrika --- histoire Afrique --- Civil war - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Political violence - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Social conflict - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Postcolonialism - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa, Sub-Saharan - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions - 1960 --- -Africa, Sub-Saharan - Ethnic relations - Political aspects - History - 20th century

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