Afropolitan Projects
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African cosmopolitanism
African cultural politics
African diaspora studies
African immigration
African sexual politics
Afropolitanism
anti-colonial politics
art and activism
Author_Anima Adjepong
black immigrants in the United States
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ethnicity and immigration
Ghanaian cultural politics
middle-class Africans
middle-class immigrants
new African diasporas
Pan-Africanism
queer African studies
queer diaspora studies
queer methods
race and immigration
transnational ethnography
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- ISBN 9781469665184
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Beyond simplistic binaries of "the dark continent" or "Africa rising," Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Focusing particularly on queer sexuality, Adjepong offers unique insight into the contemporary sexual politics of the Afropolitan class. The book expands and complicates existing research by providing an in-depth transnational case study that not only addresses questions of cosmopolitanism, class, and racial identity but also considers how gender and sexuality inform the racialized identities of Africans in the United States and in Ghana. Bringing an understudied cohort of class-privileged Africans to the forefront, Adjepong offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives.
Anima Adjepong is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati.
