About the Book:The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and “Black Europe” itself as lived and perceived realities. Contributors are Allison Blakely, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Tina Campt, Fred Constant, Alessandra Di Maio, Philomena Essed, Terri Francis, Barnor Hesse, Darlene Clark Hine, Dienke Hondius, Eileen Julien, Trica Danielle Keaton, Kwame Nimako, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Stephen Small, Tyler Stovall, Alexander G. Weheliye, Gloria Wekker, and Michelle M. Wright.Table of Contents: Foreword ixPhilomena Essed Preface xviiDarlene Clark Hine Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back xxiiiStephen SmallSection1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe 1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch 3Allison Blakely 2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands 29Dienke Hondius 3. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Josephine Baker’s Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color 48Eileen Julien 4. Pictures of “US”? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject 63Tina M. Campt 5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d’outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity 84T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby PattersonSection 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy 6. “Black (American) Paris” and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity 95Trica Danielle Keaton 7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa 119Alessandra Di Maio 8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, “Blackness” Reclaimed 145Fred Constant 9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music 161Alexander G. Weheliye 10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France 180Tyler StovallSection 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In Europe 11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location 201Jacqueline Nassy Brown 12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia 212Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small 13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris 238Terri Francis 14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora 260Michelle M. Wright 15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe… 277Gloria Wekker Afterword: Black Europe’s Undecidability 291Barnor Hesse Notes on Contributors 305 Index 311