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Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels-has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Part One Making Blackness Serve

1. Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts /Carsten Junker

2. Russian Blackamoors: From Grand-Manner Portraiture to Alphabet in Pictures / Irina Novikova

3. Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt

4. Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Joachim Östlund

5. Making Blackness Serve China: The Image of Afro-Asia in Chinese Political Posters / Robeson Taj Frazier

Part Two Dreaming Diasporas

6. The Glamorous One-Two Punch: Visualizing Celebrity, Masculinity, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Lyneise Williams

7. The Here and Now of Eslanda Robeson's African Journey / Leigh Raiford

8. Black and Cuba: An Interview with Filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth

9. Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliaichi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi

10. Dreaming Diasporas / Cheryl Finley

Part Three Differently Black

11. Differently Black: The Fourth Great Migration and Black Catholic Saints in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo and Jim Sheridan's In America / Charles I. Nero

12. Coloured in South Africa: An Interview with Filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and Photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink

13. When Home Meets Diaspora at the Door of No Return: Cinematic Encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez

14. Of Plastic Ducks and Cockle Pickers: African Atlantic Artists and Critiques of Bonded Labor across Chronologies / Alan Rice

15. At Home, Online: Affective Exchange and the Diasporic Body in Ghanaian Internet Video / Reginold A. Royston

Part 4 Afrofabulation

16. Habeas Ficta: Fictive Ethnicity, Affecting Representations, and Slaves on Screen / Tavia Nyong'o

17. The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson

18. The Not-Yet Justice League: Fantasy, Redress, and Transatlantic Black History on the Comic Book Page / Darieck Scott

List of Contributors

Index

About the Author

Leigh Raiford is associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle and coeditor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland University College, Europe and professor of American Studies at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. She is the author of The Utopian Aesthetics of Three African American Women (Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Julie Dash): The Principle of Hope and editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence. The contributors are Rushay Booysen, Kiersten Chace, Cedric Essi, Cheryl Finley, Robeson Taj Frazier, Sonja Georgi, Robin J. Hayes, Carsten Junker, Charles I. Nero, Irina Novikova, Tavia Nyong'o, Joachim Ostlund, Alan Rice, Julia Roth, Reginold Royston, Karen N. Salt, Darieck Scott, Krista Thompson, Pia Wiegmink, and Lyneise Williams.