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Afro-Nordic Landscapes, Equality, and Race in Northern Europe
Michael McEachrane
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Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies of imperialism squarely in a Nordic context. How has a nation as peripheral as Iceland been shaped by an identity of being white? How do Black Norwegians challenge racially conscribed views of Norwegian nationhood? What does the history of jazz in Denmark say about the relation between its national identity and race? What is it like to be a mixed-race black Swedish woman? How have African Diasporans in Finland navigated issues of race and belonging? And what does the widespread denial of everyday racism in Nordic societies mean to Afro-Nordics?
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Reviews
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Afro-Nordic Landscapes
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland
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2 Queendom: On Being Black, Feminist Norwegian Women
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3 The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation about Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
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4 There’s a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe
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5 Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake—An Email Conversation
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6 Searching for Words: Becoming Mixed Race, Black and Sweden
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7 Bertrand Besigye’s Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway
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8 Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye
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9 Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland
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10 Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark
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11 A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe: An Email Conversation
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
- 9781315774718 (ebook)