Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations

Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Antiblackness

Philip Kretsedemas, Jamella Nefetari Gow, Philip Kretsedemas, Jamella Nefetari Gow

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781439922712
  9781439922705
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439922729
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the "unasked question of blackness" in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration—compelled by force or suggestion, from the transatlantic African slave trade to the Great Migration and the current refugee crisis—has been structured to reinforce white supremacy.

Focusing on antiblackness in immigration and examining restrictions on freedom of movement and on settling alike, chapters address how Black im/mobility operates and how it can be distinguished from that of the migrant and the colonial settler, as well as from the transgressive mobilities of Indigenous populations. Looking at blackness, borders and border practices, and displacement, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations investigates racialized boundaries that determine immigration policy, citizenship, legality, and inclusion. Additional chapters analyze communities, such as the Haitian diaspora in Miami, antiblackness in the context of Australian migration, and explore literary representations of justice, slavery and Black feminist consciousness.

Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses (anti)blackness to rethink the way we understand borders, immigrant identity, barriers to integration, and the dynamics of migrant exclusion, while also providing an understanding of "otherness" for Black populations across nationalities.  

Contributors: Maya Hislop, P. Khalil Saucier, Hyacinth Udah, Paula von Gleich, Tryon P. Woods, and the editors

Table of contents

• Contents
• Black Interrogations: An Introduction / Jamella N. Gow and Philip Kretsedemas
• 1. Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Excavating Black Power in the Migrant Question / P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods
• 2. The Immigrant’s Other / Philip Kretsedemas
• 3. Not Just about Being Haitian, [but] Being Black in America: Race, Gender, and Blackness within the Haitian Diaspora in Miami’s “Little Haiti” / Jamella N. Gow
• 4. Migration and Lived Experiences of Antiblack Racism: The Case of African Immigrants in Queensland, Australia / Hyacinth Udah
• 5. Afropessimistic Justice in New York v. Strauss-Kahn and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah / Maya Hislop
• 6. Slavery, Migration, and the Genealogies of Blackness in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing / Paula von Gleich
• Contributors
• Index