The predicament of blackness : postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pierre, Jemima
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013
Subjects:	Blacks > Race identity > Ghana. Race awareness > Ghana. Ghana > Race relations. Heritage tourism > Ghana. African diaspora.

Table of Contents:

Of natives and Europeans : colonialism and the ethnicization of racial dominance
"Seek ye first the political kingdom" : the postcolony and racial formation
"You are rich because you are white" : marking race and signifying whiteness
The fact of lightness : Skin bleaching and the colored codes of racial aesthetics
Slavery and Pan-Africanist triumph : heritage tourism and state racecraft
"Are you a Black American?" : race and the politics of African-diaspora interactions
Race across the Atlantic- and back : theorizing Africa and/in the diaspora
Epilogue : Writing Ghana, imagining Africa, interrogating diaspora.