Moving Blackness

Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace

Lisa B. Y. Calvente (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4064-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	0 images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4064-0 / 1978840640
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4064-5 / 9781978840645
Zustand	Neuware