Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights

by Brian Purnell

Book Overview

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, "traveling" identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the "Black" struggle worldwide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800855796
• ISBN13: 9781800855793
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 200 Pages