In July 1961, five months after Patrice Lumumba’s assassination, 14-year-old Brenda F. Berrian’s consciousness was raised by her family’s move to the turbulent Republic of the Congo. Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo traces Berrian’s experiences of subsequently traveling the United States, Canada, France, and three other African countries against the backdrop of emerging African independence and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Detailing the complexities she faced in her global identity as a Black woman, Berrian explores how the love and support of her parents and her developing racial, feminist, and political consciousness--strengthened by her embrace of literature and music of the African diaspora--prepared her to deal with adversity, stereotypes, and grief along the way.
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Author(s): Brenda F. Berrian
Series: Critical Africana Studies
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: Lanham
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Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US tothe Congo
Series
Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Expatriates in Léo
Notes
Chapter 2
At the Roadblock
Notes
Chapter 3
Les Coiffures
Chapter 4
The Proposal
Notes
Chapter 5
The Robbery
Notes
Chapter 6
Familial Connections
Notes
Chapter 7
A Southerner at the Front Door
Chapter 8
The Return Home
Notes
Chapter 9
History and Négritude in the Flesh
Notes
Chapter 10
A Canadian Fixation
Chapter 11
A Bump in the Road
Chapter 12
Crossing the Ocean à Paris
Notes
Chapter 13
The Street Sweepers
Chapter 14
I Am Not My Hair
Chapter 15
A Future Decision
Notes
Chapter 16
In Search of Sister-Brotherhood
Notes
Chapter 17
Gender Politics
Notes
Chapter 18
Residues of Apartheid
Notes
Chapter 19
Going to Fort Hare
Chapter 20
Redemption and the TRC
Notes
Chapter 21
Ubuntu in Alice
Notes
Chapter 22
Teraanga in Senegal
Notes
Chapter 23
Childhood Sweethearts and Colorism
Chapter 24
A Tribute to Ma Berrian
Notes
Chapter 25
From Whence I Came
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
