The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Jemima Pierre. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 288 pp.

Rahier, Jean Muteba

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“…When it comes to the anthropology of Africa, Pierre (2013) argues that race and racialization have, on the one hand, been understudied and undertheorized. On the other hand, Pierre's (2006) work also shows that anthropology's continued involvement in the racialization of African cultural difference and its epistemological and methodological foundations has remained under-analysed.…”

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Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction

Güner

2023

Africa

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Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction

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“…: 4). Despite the structural exclusions that have left diaspora Black and African communities in similar positions of racialized economic marginalization, contemporary anthropological scholarship documenting the experiences of diaspora Black people who travel to the continent has revealed the perceived socio-economic inequalities between the two groups and the divergent ways in which they interpret the impacts of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism (Holsey 2008;Pierre 2012). This and other recent scholarship on the African diaspora emphasizes the hegemonies that emerge as different communities of African descent engage with one another (Campt and Thomas 2008;Williams 2018).…”

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From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Rahman

2023

Africa

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Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African-American Muslims have travelled or relocated to the rural yet renowned city of Medina Baye, Senegal. They were invited there by Shaykh Hassan Cisse, a Senegalese Islamic scholar and leader in the Tijani tariqa (Sufi order). This article focuses on the experiences of African-American and fellow diaspora Black Muslims living and learning with African Muslims in the Tijani hub of Medina Baye. It interrogates the assumptions, expectations and misunderstandings that characterize relationships between the two groups. I argue that, as members of the Tijani tariqa, diaspora Black disciples become integrated within the local system of collective care modelled by African disciples. Complicating analyses of African–diasporic exchanges that tend to differentiate and hierarchize the interconnected economic hardships facing diaspora Black and continental African communities, I argue that the relationship between these groups illustrates the role of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s branch of the Tijani tariqa as a counterhegemonic social movement offering new paradigms of social and economic reciprocity that enable Black Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic to mitigate the contemporary impacts of racial capitalism and global apartheid.

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“…Critical race scholars have analysed the racialized ideologies and practices of development and humanitarianism in postcolonial Africa, and have pointed to the privileging of whiteness as a symbol of expertise, authority, philanthropy, heroism and the saviour complex (Pierre 2013;Appel 2019;Benton 2016;Wilson 2011;Kothari 2006a;2006b;Loftsd óttir 2009). Crafted in a humanitarian context, Muslim whiteness builds on this racial order, deploying its very codes, but reordering their meaning.…”

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Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara

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2023

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This article analyses the racial framing of the humanitarian encounter between Turkish and African Muslims as a trope of first contact. Intensifying humanitarian relations with Africa south of the Sahara, in tandem with the foreign policy of the AKP (Justice and Development Party), has led to the emergence of a racialized affective regime in Turkey that endows Islamic philanthropy with new racial meanings. This article argues that racial subjects such as the White Muslim and the Black Muslim are produced through the affective labour of humanitarian volunteers and others, who narrativize and circulate experiences of first contact in Turkey. Based on a multi-sited ethnography in Turkey, Tanzania, Senegal, Gambia and Benin, this article explores race-making as affective labour. Taking on Berg and Ramos-Zayas’s call for an anthropological theorization of race and affect, it develops a critical framework to examine how humanitarian voluntarism produces differently racialized subjects. In order to do so, this analysis draws on James Baldwin’s insights into the racial and affective politics of the first contact to discuss how Turkish humanitarians build on and alter the racialized affective regime Baldwin describes.

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The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Jemima Pierre. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 288 pp.

Cited by 22 publications

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Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction

Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction

From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara

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