Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West 1
5. 1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other 27
6. 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire 66
7. 3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon’s Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought and the Black (Male) Subject 111
8. 4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female Subject 136
9. 5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris 183
10. Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? 229
11. Notes 233
12. Bibliography 261
13. Index 269