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Afro-Sweden : becoming Black in a color-blind country by Ryan Thomas Skinner, Jason Timbuktu Diakité is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A compelling examination of Swedens African and Black diaspora Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In Afro-Sweden, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European community. Skinner employs the conceptual themes of remembering and renaissance to illuminate the history and culture of the Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of global Black studies. The first scholarly monograph in English to focus specifically on the African and Black diasp

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Author

Ryan Thomas Skinner, Jason Timbuktu Diakité

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517912314

Category

nonfiction