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Afropolitan projects : redefining Blackness, sexualities, and culture from Houston to Accra / Anima Adjepong.

By: Description: xii, 201 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469665184
  • 9781469665191
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/67 23 A236
LOC classification:
  • DT510.4 .A44 2021
Contents:
Afropolitan Mentality in Houston -- The Christian American Afropolitan Project -- Accra's Afropolitan Vibe -- Afropolitan Politics in Accra -- Afropolitan Sexual Politics -- Afropolitan Racial Politics.
Summary: "In this comparative work of sociology, Adjepong examines the aspirations of a diverse group of Ghanaians who moved to the United States; those who returned to Ghana after years in the United States, Western Europe, or the United Kingdom; and those who have always made their lives in Ghana. In doing so, Adjepong provides a new way to understand how a select group of upwardly mobile Africans collectively and individually demonstrate their belonging as global citizens. The author takes care to place an emphasis on intersectionality, with a particular focus on sexuality, sexual politics, and popular culture, which opens up space for an engagement with African lives as complex and complicated--a correction to the simplistic Western view of Ghanaians and Africans writ large. Adjepong's examination of class-privileged Africans brings this understudied cohort to the forefront by acknowledging their experiences and, in turn, offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index.

Afropolitan Mentality in Houston -- The Christian American Afropolitan Project -- Accra's Afropolitan Vibe -- Afropolitan Politics in Accra -- Afropolitan Sexual Politics -- Afropolitan Racial Politics.

"In this comparative work of sociology, Adjepong examines the aspirations of a diverse group of Ghanaians who moved to the United States; those who returned to Ghana after years in the United States, Western Europe, or the United Kingdom; and those who have always made their lives in Ghana. In doing so, Adjepong provides a new way to understand how a select group of upwardly mobile Africans collectively and individually demonstrate their belonging as global citizens. The author takes care to place an emphasis on intersectionality, with a particular focus on sexuality, sexual politics, and popular culture, which opens up space for an engagement with African lives as complex and complicated--a correction to the simplistic Western view of Ghanaians and Africans writ large. Adjepong's examination of class-privileged Africans brings this understudied cohort to the forefront by acknowledging their experiences and, in turn, offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives"-- Provided by publisher.