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The predicament of blackness : postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race / Jemima Pierre

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Pierre, Jemima
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
xix, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Of natives and Europeans : colonialism and the ethnicization of racial dominance -- "Seek ye first the political kingdom" : the postcolony and racial formation -- "You are rich because you are white" : marking race and signifying whiteness -- The fact of lightness : Skin bleaching and the colored codes of racial aesthetics -- Slavery and Pan-Africanist triumph : heritage tourism and state racecraft -- "Are you a Black American?" : race and the politics of African-diaspora interactions -- Race across the Atlantic- and back : theorizing Africa and/in the diaspora -- Epilogue : Writing Ghana, imagining Africa, interrogating diaspora.
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ISBN
9780226923024 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226923029 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226923031 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226923037 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780226923048 (e-book)
0226923045 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-248) and index.
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