Blackening Europe: The African American Presence

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Foreword - Migrancy, Culture, and a New Map of Europe......Page 11
Introduction - Making the African American Experience Primary......Page 24
1 - Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-Garde......Page 36
2 - Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European Identity......Page 57
3 - "Jungle in the Spotlight"?: Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour......Page 75
4 - Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSR......Page 95
5 - Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands......Page 109
6 - Dancing Away toward Home - An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary Europe......Page 129
7 - The Melancholic Influence of Postcolonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker......Page 144
8 - Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Soleá and Back......Page 164
9 - Monsieur Hip-Hop......Page 179
10 - Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The "Darkening" of German Youth Culture......Page 194
11 - A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the Rest: Hungarian Youth Rapping......Page 209
12 - But I Ain't African, I'm American!": Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century France......Page 224
13 - "Heroes across the Sea": Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay......Page 239
14 - Never Shall We Be Slaves: Locke's Treatises, Slavery, and Early Modern European Modernity......Page 258
15 - Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-frst Century......Page 272
16 - Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian Case......Page 286
17 - "Niggas" and "Skins": Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-Income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas......Page 308
Contributors......Page 326
Index......Page 331