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Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace

Autor Lisa B. Y. Calvente
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2025
Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace delves into the intricate connections between communication, culture, power, and racism in relation to blackness. Through a blend of interviews, oral histories, and meticulous archival research, this book sheds light on the multifaceted narratives surrounding Black identity. It explores how these stories circulate, serving as tools of resistance, negotiation, and affirmation of diverse manifestations and representations of blackness. By emphasizing the significance of storytelling as a means through which blackness affirms itself, transcending time and space, the book underscores how communicative embodiments of Black identity enable individuals to persevere within marginalized contexts.
 
Engaging with theories of anti-Black racism, modernity, coloniality, and the Black diaspora, the book frames storytelling and the circulation of narratives as performances deeply rooted in the everyday lives of Black people across the diaspora. Starting with an examination of the racial construction of movement during colonialism and slavery, the book traces how this history shapes contemporary interactions. With its exploration of how Black circulation transforms movement and space, the book introduces a forward-thinking approach to the Black diaspora, anchored in a politics of identification rather than being confined to the past or a specific location. Moving Blackness argues that the desire for homespace, a yearning for belonging that transcends any particular physical space, fuels this envisioned future, rooted in the historical and material conditions of racism and marginalization.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978840645
ISBN-10: 1978840640
Pagini: 194
Ilustrații: 0 images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

LISA B. Y. CALVENTE is an assistant professor of performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the coauthor of Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance.

Cuprins

Introduction: Storytelling Performances: Circulation, Blackness, and Popular Culture
1 Nation-Place: Spatial Blackness and Racist Identification
2 The Limits of Mobility: Why Does the Circulation of Stories Matter Anyway?
3 Movin’ on Up: Mobile Traps and Mapping Performances of Homespace
4 Mobile Stories and Bounded Spaces: Stories Told and Telling Performances
5 Classroom Caravan: Popularizing Pedagogical Performances of Disorder
Conclusion: Remembering "The Score": Telling Stories of Blackness and Their Circulation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“Calvente breaks new ground in this compelling interdisciplinary study. Through a combination of theory and methods, she brings to light the poetics and praxis of oral history performance.”
"In this thought-provoking book, Calvente argues for the critical role of stories in making and remaking worlds that privilege some at the expense of others.  Using a compelling storyteller's subtlety and a meticulous ethnographer's eye, she offers an important contribution to communication and cultural studies that demonstrates some of the ways in which we speak our worlds—our homespaces—into tender, precarious, but decidedly realizable existence. Moving Blackness itself moves through colonial times and diasporic spaces to contextualize understandings of race/racism in the everyday and the existential."
 

Descriere

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through which blackness is conveyed: it serves as a means of circulating the lived experiences of being Black while also functioning as acts of resistance and solidarity performed by blackened individuals who were (once) colonized and enslaved.