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Named
'Gutsy, entertaining and thought-provoking...A marvellous book.' Diana Evans What's in a name? Everything we carry, and everything we are. Our names are a shadow we carry around with us. They are part of who we are. Our names are a marker of our self-identity and our sense of self. Our names have the power to shock. They have the power to heal, and they have the power to trigger conversations around race, class, social mobility and belonging. But what is a name? What do our names tell us about ourselves? And why do they matter? Named is a fascinating exploration of names, global naming conventions and identity politics woven into a moving, personal narrative about the finding of family and self. At the intersection of memoir and social and cultural history it is a truly fascinating book about the seemingly ordinary and every day. The author's own narrative about her estrangement from her Nigerian father, the grapples with her Jamaican mother and her journey towards identity is woven through the chapters making it an engaging and intimate investigation of what makes us who we are.
Migration and Return in Modern African Literature
Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black bodies in white spaces. In this work, author Ernest Cole examines closely the narratives of migration and return presented in nine powerful novels by authors who include Chimamanda Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole and others. The novels reveal a reversal of expectations that migrants from Africa experience upon arrival in the West, a reversal prompted in part by the racial prejudice they are conf...
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821–1872) and Edward Bannister (1828–1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art makers of color during the antebellum period, they experienced numerous incidents of racism that severely hampered their pursuits of a profession that many in the mainstream considered the highest form of social cultivation. Despite barriers imposed upon them due to their racial inheritance, these artists shared a common cause in demanding acceptance alongside their white contemporaries as capable painters and sculptors on local, regional, and international levels. Author Naurice Frank Woods Jr....
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century
This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names. In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colony’s approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future. Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices.
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery, many Americans are kinda-sorta-maybe waking up to the reality that our racial politics are (still) garbage. But in the midst of this reckoning, widespread denial and misunderstandings about race persist, even as white supremacy and racial injustice a...
The Migration Conference 2023 Programme
The Migration Conference 2023 Programme offers about 80 sessions in four days from 23 to 26 August 2023. The Migration Conference series attracted a few thousand colleagues over the last 11 years and become one of the largest continuous events on migration and the largest scholarly gathering with a global scope. The conference covers all areas of social sciences, humanities, economics, business and management. More popular areas so far included work, employment, integration, refugees and asylum, migration policy and law, spatial patterns, culture, arts and legal and political aspects which are key areas in the current migration debates and research. Throughout the program of the Migration Co...
The Sage Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies
Refugees and displacement are defining issues of the 21st century, with over 70 million asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless individuals forced from their homes as of 2020. Every two seconds, one person is forcibly displaced due to climate change, global epidemics, and ongoing conflicts. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, edited by members of The Critical Refugee Studies Collective, serves as a vital and comprehensive resource for understanding the historical, political, and cultural dimensions of displacement. Featuring over 250 authoritative articles, this landmark reference work is organized into three key themes: law, politics, and policy; humanitarianism and humanitarian organ...
The Migration Conference 2023 Book of Abstracts
The Migration Conference 2023 Book of Abstracts
Teori-Teori Migrasi Internasional
Fenomena manusia bermigrasi antardaerah yang jauh adalah fenomena lama. Usianya sama dengan sejarah manusia itu sendiri, bahkan sebelum ada batas-batas kedaulatan wilayah yang jelas dari suatu entitas politik. Namun, teorisasi dan konseptualisasi terkait migrasi internasional baru semarak sekitar akhir abad 19 dan awal abad 20. Buku ini hadir sebagai respons langkanya buku yang khusus membahas teori dan konsep dalam kajian migrasi internasional di tanah air. Buku ini berupaya mengarsipkan teori dan konsep migrasi internasional dari awal upaya teorisasi dan konseptualisasi terkait migrasi internasional sampai era kontemporer lintas disiplin ilmu sosial. Buku ini juga memberikan pengantar dasar dan sejarah singkat terkait migrasi internasional. Hal ini guna tetap menjaga nuansa historis dan konteks perkembangan kajian migrasi internasional. Teori dan konseptualisasi dalam buku ini mayoritas menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Buku ini diperuntukkan bagi pemelajar pemula, mahasiswa yang ingin melakukan penelitian, pengkaji, praktisi, dan masyarakat umum yang ingin mengetahui teori dan konsep dalam kajian migrasi internasional.
