Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	I.
	II.
	III.
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I:
The Nation
	1. Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland
		Africa in Iceland Prior to
the 19th Century
		Creating a Racial Community in Iceland
		Racial Meanings
in Contemporary Iceland
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2.
Queendom: On Being Black, Feminist Norwegian Women
		‘Race’ and Racism
in Norway
		A Feminist Queendom: “We are all Women that Work for Women to be Better Women”
		An Anti-Racist Queendom: “You Delete us from Our Own History of Being Here: Don’t do that!”
		The Differences that Make us: Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3.
The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation About Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
		The Early Reception
		From Demonized to Assimilated
		WWII
		The Harlem Kiddies
		The Golden Years of Swedish Jazz
		The Jazz Capitol
		Race in “The Cop”
		Tchicai
		Jazz as High Art
		A Nordic Tone?
		Mazur
Part II:
Racism
	4.
There’s a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe
		Dignity First
		Humanism or Pseudo-Humanism?
		The Politics
of Race Blindness
		White Supremacy
		Embodying Equality
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5.
Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake—An Email Conversation
		Dissenting Voices
		Representing the State
		Whose Freedom?
		Empowering African Women
		Afromantics
		A Nation of Anti-Racists
		Black Skull Consciousness?
		Politicizing Black Swedish Subjectivity
	6.
Searching for Words: Becoming Mixed Race, Black and Swedish
		A Swedish Context
		Mixed How?
		Becoming
a Nomadic Subject
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7.
Bertrand Besigye’s Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway
		Against Racism
		Against an
Alienating Norwegianness
		An-Other
Vision
		Notes
	8.
Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye
		How a Black African Orders Black Coffee
		You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down. or Black Hail Over
all of West Side
Part III:
Diaspora
	9.
Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland
		“Black”
in Finland
		Finns’ Knowledge
of Africans
		Memoirs of the
Only Black Finn
		African Students in
Finland
		Discourses
of Immigration
		Talking Back
to Exclusive Finnishness
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10.
Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark
		In Search of Nella Larsen—In
Denmark
		“We Don’t Think of These Things Here”: Race and Colonialism
in Quicksand’s Copenhagen
		Frøkken Crane Goes to Nørrebronx: “New Danes” and “Danish Values” in the Twenty-First
Century
		Notes
	11.
A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe—An Email Conversation
		Speaking of Racism
		Discrimination in Context
		Black in the Horn
		Politicizing Race
		Speaking of Integration
Contributors
Index