Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities

Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
by Jean Muteba Rahier Editor

This anthology offers a comparative approach for the study of performances of African diaspora identities in various locales of the Black Atlantic. Articles discuss the spatial dimensions of blackness the relations between blackness, gender constructs, and social classes Native American views.

The essays in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in part, the world in which we live.