Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production (eBook)

Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil

G. Mitchell-Walthour, E. Hordge-Freeman (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
X, 226 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137553942 (ISBN)

Infos

Contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. They expose the complex and contradictory strategies that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda.

Kia Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA David Covin, Sacramento State University, USA Reighan Gillam, University of Michigan, USA Jaira Harrington, University of Chicago, USA Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University, USA Tiffany Joseph, Stony Brook University, USA Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Lucio Oliveira, University of California Los Angeles, USA Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers University-Camden, USA Mojana Vargas, Federal University of Paraiba, USA Gabriela Watson Aurazo, Temple University, USA

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In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. Contributors promote an interdisciplinary perspective, as they represent the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, and the humanities. They engage W.E.B. Du Bois' notion of 'second-sight,' which suggests that the unique positionality of Black researchers might provide them with advantages in their empirical observations and knowledge production. They expose the complex and contradictory efforts, discourses, and performances that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda. They illustrate that 'second-sight' is not inevitable but must be worked at and is sometimes not achieved in certain research and cultural contexts.

Autor

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour is Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA. She was the 2013-2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, USA. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is Assistant Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida, USA. She is a 2015–2016 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil.

Inhalt

Introduction In Pursuit of Dubois' 'Second-Sight' through Diasporic Dialogues; Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Gladys Mitchell-WalthourPART I: INSTITUTIONS AS GATE-KEEPERS AND GAME-CHANGERS1. Thinking Comparatively about Black Women's Studies in the United States and Brazil: The Politics of Knowledge Production; Kia Lilly Caldwell2. Race and Democracy in the Americas: The Project and Beyond: The Genesis of the Race & Democracy in The Americas Project; David Covin 3. Brokering Black Brazil or Fostering Global Citizenship? Global Engagement that Empowers Black Brazilian Communities; Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman4. Didn't Your Parents Like You?; Mojana VargasPART II: RWB: RESEARCHING WHILE BLACK AND FEMALE IN BRAZIL 5. A (Black) American Trapped in a ('Non-Black') Brazilian Body: Reflections on Navigating Multiple Identities in International Fieldwork; Tiffany Joseph 6. Guess Who's Coming to Research?: A Political Scientist's Reflections on Race, Class and Gender in Brazil; Jaira Harrington7. But You (Don't) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States; Reighan Gillam 8. Changing Notions of Blackness in Field Research in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour 9. Studying Black-White Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro; Chinyere OsujiPART III: BLACK BRAZILIANS' REFLECTIONS IN THE US: MYTH OF A RACIAL RADICAL PARADISE 10. Living the African American way of life – Impressions and disillusions of an Afro-Brazilian Lady in the USA; Daniela F. Gomes da Silva11. Increasing Resilience to Face Diversity: Race in Academic and Social Environments from Salvador to Los Angeles; Lucio Magano 12. Far Beyond 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire' – Impressions of an Afro-Brazilian Cinematographer and Activist in Philadelphia; Gabriela Watson AurazoConclusionToward A Future African Diasporic Approach to Research; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 226 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: African diaspora • Afro-Brazilians • black researchers • Community • Democracy • Environment • Gender • Institution • Knowledge Production • Latin America • Nation • Politics • positionality • Social Science • Sociology • transnational
• ISBN-13: 9781137553942 / 9781137553942