Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: In Pursuit of Du Bois’s “Second-Sight” through Diasporic Dialogues....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Black Women’s Studies in the United States and Brazil: The Transnational Politics of Knowledge Production....Pages 15-25
The Genesis of the Race and Democracy in the Americas Project: The Project and Beyond....Pages 27-39
Brokering Black Brazil or Fostering Global Citizenship? Global Engagement that Empowers Black Brazilian Communities....Pages 41-57
Didn’t Your Parents Like You?....Pages 59-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
A (Black) American Trapped in a (“Nonblack”) Brazilian Body: Reflections on Navigating Multiple Identities in International Fieldwork....Pages 77-89
Guess Who’s Coming to Research? Reflections on Race, Class, Gender, and Power in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil....Pages 91-97
But You (Don’t) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States....Pages 99-111
Changing Notions of Blackness in Field Research in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil....Pages 113-122
An African/Nigerian-American Studying Black-White Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro....Pages 123-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Living the African American Way of Life—Impressions and Disillusions of an Afro-Brazilian Woman in the United States....Pages 141-154
Increasing Resilience to Face Diversity: Race in Academic and Social Environments from Salvador to Los Angeles....Pages 155-165
Far Beyond “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”: Impressions from an Afro-Latina Filmmaker and Activist in Philadelphia....Pages 167-178
Conclusion: Toward a Future African Diasporic Approach to Research Diaspora....Pages 179-187
Back Matter....Pages 189-226