Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton, and Stephen Small

Foreword ix
Philomena Essed

Preface xvii
Darlene Clark Hine

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back xxiii
Stephen Small

Section1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe
1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch 3
Allison Blakely
2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands 29
Dienke Hondius
3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color 48
Eileen Julien
4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject 63
Tina M. Campt
5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity 84
T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Section 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy
6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity 95
Trica Danielle Keaton
7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa 119
Alessandra Di Maio
8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness" Reclaimed 145
Fred Constant
9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music 161
Alexander G. Weheliye
10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France 180
Tyler Stovall

Section 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In Europe
11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location 201
Jacqueline Nassy Brown
12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia 212
Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small
13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris 238
Terri Francis
14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora 260
Michelle M. Wright
15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe... 277
Gloria Wekker

Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability 291
Barnor Hesse

Notes on Contributors 305
Index 311