Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora » (1st Edition)

Michelle M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices.

A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West
1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other
2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire
3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought and the Black (Male) Subject
4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female Subject
5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak?