Afropolitan Projects

Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20021630
AutoresAnima Adjepong (0000-0001-5796-1046, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Páginas224
Fecha de publicación2021-11-02
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAfropolitan Projects (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665191.001.0001
OpenAlexW4387729760
Open LibraryOL34121817M
ISBN9781469665191
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDmDUoEAAAQBAJ
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

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

Aesthetics · Class (philosophy) · Cosmopolitanism · Diversity (politics) · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Identity politics · Political science · Politics · Queer · Race (biology) · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Accra Metropolitan Area · Africa · Ghana · Ghanaian diaspora · History · Houston (Texas) · Lgbtqia · Political activity · Social aspects of African diaspora · Upper class