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008 120321s2013 ilua b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aDT510.42$b.P54 2013
082 00 $a305.8009667$223
100 1 $aPierre, Jemima.
245 14 $aThe predicament of blackness :$bpostcolonial Ghana and the politics of race /$cJemima Pierre.
264 1 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c[2013]
300 $axix, 263 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
505 0 $aOf 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-diasporic interactions -- Race across the Atlantic--and back: Theorizing Africa and/in the diaspora -- Epilogue: Writing Ghana, imagining Africa, and interrogating diaspora.
650 0 $aBlacks$xRace identity$zGhana.
650 0 $aRace awareness$zGhana.
651 0 $aGhana$xRace relations.
650 0 $aHeritage tourism$zGhana.
650 0 $aAfrican diaspora.