Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora, Afro-Nordic Landscapes

Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora, Afro-Nordic Landscapes

edited by Michael McEachrane, fl. 2001, in Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 284 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogeneously 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? This text is a must read for anyone interested in issues of race in the Nordic region and Europe writ large. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and 'critical race theory.'"
Field of Interest
Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 Taylor & Francis
Content Type
General reference book
Duration
0 sec
Warning: Contains explicit content
No
Format
Text
Original Publication Date
2014
Page Count
284
Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Place Published / Released
New York, NY
Subject
Black Studies, Diversity, Political and Social Movements, Identities and Experiences, Cultural diversity, Cultural adaptation, Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos, Scandinavians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Series / Program
Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos

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