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Africa in Europe
Professor Eve Rosenhaft (Ed.)
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Description for Africa in Europe
Hardcover. The book examines the ways in which people of African descent have negotiated the challenges of building private life and community in Europe since the late 19th century, considering how their experiences involves crossing borders into and across a multinational European space and creating alliances across lines of language, ethnicity and colour. Editor(s): Rosenhaft, Eve; Aitken, Robbie. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 colour plates, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1H; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTP; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans who settled or travelled in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. At the same time, while studies of Africans in Europe have tended to focus on the relationship between colonial (or former colonial) subjects and their respective metropolitan nation states, the essays in this ... Read more
This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans who settled or travelled in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. At the same time, while studies of Africans in Europe have tended to focus on the relationship between colonial (or former colonial) subjects and their respective metropolitan nation states, the essays in this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Migrations and Identities
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318474
SKU
V9781846318474
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About Professor Eve Rosenhaft (Ed.)
Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool. Dr Robbie Aitken is Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University.
Reviews for Africa in Europe
This bold and imaginative collection of essays makes a highly valuable contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of recovering the history of ‘black’ presence in Europe. ... Africa in Europe is the first in the Liverpool University Press series ‘Migrations and Identities’: its reach and ambition have set the bar high.
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