Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race 1
5. PART I DIASPORIC MOVEMENTS, MISSIONS, AND MODERNITIES
6. Missionary Positions 37
7. History at the Crossroads: Vodú and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands 55
8. Diaspora and Desire: Gendering ‘‘Black America’’ in Black Liverpool 73
9. Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines 93
10. ‘‘Mama, I’m Walking to Canada’’: Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires 112
11. PART II GEOGRAPHIES OF RACIAL BELONGING
12. Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage 133
13. Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde 154
14. Folkloric ‘‘Others’’: Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico 171
15. Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality 188
16. Recasting ‘‘Black Venus’’ in the ‘‘New’’ African Diaspora 206
17. ‘‘Shooting the White Girl First’’: Race in Post-apartheid South Africa 226
18. PART III POPULAR BLACKNESSES, ‘‘AUTHENTICITY,’’ AND NEW MEASURES OF LEGITIMACY
19. Havana’s Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex 249
20. Reading Bu√y and ‘‘Looking Proper’’: Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn 279
21. The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London 299
22. Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm’s African Dance Courses 316
23. Modern Blackness: Progress, ‘‘America,’’ and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica 335
24. Bibliography 355
25. Contributors 391
26. Index 395