Afropolitan Projects (e-bog) af Adjepong, Anima
Adjepong, Anima (forfatter)

Afropolitan Projects e-bog

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Beyond simplistic binaries of &quote;the dark continent&quote; or &quote;Africa Rising,&quote; Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals...
E-bog 253,01 DKK
Forfattere Adjepong, Anima (forfatter)
Udgivet 21 oktober 2021
Længde 216 sider
Genrer 1HFDH
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781469665207
Beyond simplistic binaries of "e;the dark continent"e; or "e;Africa Rising,"e; Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Focusing particularly on queer sexuality, Adjepong offers unique insight into the contemporary sexual politics of the Afropolitan class. The book expands and complicates existing research by providing an in-depth transnational case study that not only addresses questions of cosmopolitanism, class, and racial identity but also considers how gender and sexuality inform the racialized identities of Africans in the United States and in Ghana. Bringing an understudied cohort of class-privileged Africans to the forefront, Adjepong offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives.