Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora - Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Book description
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora
communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the
interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an
examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White
shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status,
and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations
of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial,
ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration
of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Nigerians from
Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the
uprisings in the Paris suburbs-White reveals a shared quest for social
progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.
Elisa Joy White is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the
University of Hawai?i, M?noa, and holds a Ph. D. in African Diaspora
Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications
examine a range of areas, including the African Diaspora in Ireland,
Black Europe, ethnicity and new media, human rights, and immigration policy.
