Afropolitan Projects (eBook)

Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

Anima Adjepong (Autor)

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2021
216 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469665207 (ISBN)

Infos

Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepongs focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Focusing particularly on queer sexuality, Adjepong offers unique insight into the contemporary sexual politics of the Afropolitan class. The book expands and complicates existing research by providing an in-depth transnational case study that not only addresses questions of cosmopolitanism, class, and racial identity but also considers how gender and sexuality inform the racialized identities of Africans in the United States and in Ghana. Bringing an understudied cohort of class-privileged Africans to the forefront, Adjepong offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives.

Autor

Anima Adjepong is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African cities • African cosmopolitanism • African cultural politics • African Diaspora Studies • African immigrants in Christian America • African immigrants in Texas • African immigration • African postcolonial studies • African sexual politics • Afropolitan aesthetic cultures • Afropolitanism • anti-colonial politics • art and activism • black immigrants in the United States • cosmopolitan cities • ethnicity and immigration • Ghanaian cultural politics • Immigrant Communities • middle-class Africans • middle-class immigrants • new African diasporas • pan-Africanism • progressive African cultural politics • Queer African Studies • queer diaspora studies • queer methods • race and immigration • transnational ethnography
• ISBN-13: 9781469665207 / 9781469665207