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Transnational Yearnings

Author : Jenny Burman
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774859547
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Yearnings written by Jenny Burman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings maps a new way to look at modern contact zones and the personal interconnections that inform them by tracing circuits of migration and leisure travel between postcolonial Jamaica and Toronto, a city that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of criminalization and exclusion through deportation. Innovative and provocative, this book is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space.

Moving Islands

Author : Diana Looser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132385
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Moving Islands written by Diana Looser and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Immigrants in Prairie Cities

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802096093
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Immigrants in Prairie Cities written by Royden Loewen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time.

Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

Author : Antonio D. Tillis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136662553
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature written by Antonio D. Tillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable, and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research.

Writing the Afro-Hispanic

Author : Conrad James
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912234203
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Afro-Hispanic written by Conrad James and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the African Diaspora in Spanish America is far greater than is understood or acknowledged in the English speaking world. Connected initially to the Spanish-Caribbean through trans-Atlantic slavery, Africa is so deeply ingrained in the biology and culture of these countries that, in the words of the Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen, it would require the work of a 'miniaturist to disentangle that hieroglyph.' Through complex explorations of narratives of Spanish Blacks in the Caribbean this collection of essays builds critically on mid and late twentieth century Afro-Hispanist scholarship and thereby amplifies the terms in which Africans in the Americas are generally discussed. Each of these essays deals with a pivotal aspect of the African experience in the Spanish speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present day. The essays focus on Black African cultures in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic as well as in the circum Caribbean areas of Mexico and Colombia. In the process they cover a vast and highly involved range of issues including abolition and the politics of anti-slavery rhetoric, African women's political activism, performance poetry and female embodiment of the Black Diaspora, the Cuban Revolution and its investment in African liberation struggles, race and intra-Caribbean migration, ritualised spirituality and African healing practices among others. Through their investigation of both official and popular cultures in the Caribbean not only do the essays in this volume show the indispensable functions of African cultural capital in the Spanish speaking Caribbean but they also underline the multiple demographic, socio-political and institutional imperatives that are at stake in considering contemporary understandings of the African Diaspora.

Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration

Author : Francis L. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000007928
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration written by Francis L. Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book throws new light on the drivers of migration and explores the different ways in which aspiration and desire are involved in the generation, experiences, and outcomes of migration. The authors propose novel approaches to advancing collective understanding of migration, including reassessments of classical push and pull theory; explorations of the lexicon of aspiration, desire and voluntariness in migration; and reflections on the relationships between migration and modernity, youth and expectation, and anti-immigrant discourses. The chapters have a broad geographical scope, spanning migration on different continents and in diverse socio-economic and cultural settings. At a time when migration has become one of the most prominent areas of national and international political debate, this volume provides the tools for researchers to reconsider how we understand the forces and outcomes of global mobility. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Border Terrains: World Diasporas in the 21st Century

Author : Allyson Eamer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881177
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Border Terrains: World Diasporas in the 21st Century written by Allyson Eamer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border Terrains examines 21st century diasporas through the lenses of identity negotiation, religious faith, language, media and representations in fiction.

Bounded Mobilities

Author : Miriam Gutekunst
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839431239
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Bounded Mobilities written by Miriam Gutekunst and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility. This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.

The Bosnian Diaspora

Author : Marko Valenta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351893742
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Bosnian Diaspora written by Marko Valenta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities provides a comprehensive insight into the situation of the Bosnian Diaspora, including not only experiences in 'western' countries, but also the integration experiences of Bosnian migrants in neighbouring territories, such as Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The book presents the latest trans-national comparative studies drawn from the US and Australia as well as countries across Europe, to explore post-crisis interactions among Bosnians and the impact of post-conflict related migration. Examining the common features of the Diaspora, including the responses of migrants to changes within Bosnia and the position of displaced people in both Bosnian society itself and local political discourses, this volume addresses the influence of global anti-Muslim rhetoric on the Bosnian Diaspora's self-identification and refugees' relationships to their home country. The extent to which refugees and returnees can be described as agents of globalization and social change is also considered, whilst addressing the issue of Bosnian integration into various receiving countries and the influence exercised by European reception policies on receiving nations outside Europe. An extensive exploration of a major post-conflict European Diaspora, this book will appeal to those with interests in migration, ethnicity, integration and the displacement effects of Yugoslav conflicts.

Imaginary States

Author : Peter Hitchcock
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023934
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary States written by Peter Hitchcock and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In Imaginary States, Peter Hitchcock explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism. Juxtaposing the macroeconomic realities of commodities with the creation of cultural workers, Hitchcock offers case studies of Nike and the coffee industry alongside examinations of writings by the Algerian feminist Assia Djebar and the Caribbean writers Edward Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Maryse Conde. The stark contrast of literary examples of cultural transnationalism with discussions of commodity circulation attempts to complicate the relationship between the aesthetic and the economic. Blocking our imagination, Hitchcock argues, is the desire to produce cultural diversity under the terms of a global economy. In believing that to have one we must pursue the other, we flatten difference, erase complexity, and fail to grasp the imaginaries at stake. Hitchcock's invocation of the imagination allows for a deeper understanding of transnational "states"--whether states of being, economic states, or nation states. Proffering that the crisis of globalization is a crisis of the imagination, he urges that cultural transnationalism not be feared or suppressed but approached as a way to imagine difference globally.

Moves - Spaces - Places

Author : Lisa Johnson
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839458080
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Moves - Spaces - Places written by Lisa Johnson and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.

The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation

Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134015305
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation written by Prasenjit Duara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.

Break and Flow

Author : Charlie D. Hankin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813949831
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Break and Flow written by Charlie D. Hankin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, Charlie Hankin finds in their music and lyrics a common understanding of hip hop’s capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighborhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.

North of El Norte

Author : Paloma E. Villegas
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774863404
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book North of El Norte written by Paloma E. Villegas and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience of border crossing, policies to restrict migration, and migrants' options to achieve secure status. Villegas also provides an assessment of the barriers migrants encounter once in Canada, specifically in the labour market, in their creative pursuits, and in accessing health care. Drawing on interviews, policy documents, media accounts, and literature from local social service organizations, North of El Norte concludes that migration – and by extension migrant illegalization – is assembled, produced, and negotiated. The comprehensive research in this book sheds light on how individuals and institutions work to illegalize migrants and on migrants' active resistance to these efforts.

Canada and the Third World

Author : Karen Dubinsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442606894
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Canada and the Third World written by Karen Dubinsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies. Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and imagined development? How can we integrate Canada into global histories of empire, decolonization, and development? And how should we understand the relationship between issues such as poverty, racism, gender equality, and community development in the First and Third World alike?

Beauty in a Box

Author : Cheryl Thompson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771123605
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Beauty in a Box written by Cheryl Thompson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media—newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources—that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American–owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled “ethnic hair care”) occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada’s mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers. Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.

Circulation and the City

Author : Alexandra Boutros
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581014
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Circulation and the City written by Alexandra Boutros and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-02-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically. Contributors employ a variety of disciplinary approaches to create a richly varied picture of the multiple trajectories and effects of movement in the city. An engaging work that considers city planning, urban culture, and social behaviour, Circulation and the City adds a new dimension that revitalizes the ways we have commonly looked at - and thought about - the city.