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This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White. The chapters in this book specifically implicate European Whiteness - whether attempting to reflect, negate, or obtain it - in social structures that facilitate and normalise racism. The authors interrogate the dehumanisation of Blackness, arguing that dehumanisation enables the continuation of racism in White dominated societies. As such, the book explores instances of dehumanisation across different contexts, highlighting that although the forms may be locally specific, the outcomes are continually negative for those racialised as Black. The volume is refreshingly extensive in its analyses of racism beyond Europe and the United States, including contributions from Africa, South America and Australia, and illuminates previously unexplored manifestations of racism across the globe.--

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back -- The Decline of the British Empire -- Conceptualizing "Black Europeans" and "Black Europe" -- Class, Inequality, and the State -- Gender Ideologies and the Experiences of Black Women -- (Dubious!) Comparisons with the United States -- Establishing Our Priorities -- The Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Section 1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe -- 1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch -- Transition from Africans in Europe to Afro-Europe -- The Challenges and Responses -- The Question of Identity and Future Prospects -- Notes -- 2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands -- African-European Encounters: The Repetition of Surprise -- African Men, Women, and Children in Middelburg in 1596 -- "All Baptized Christians" -- Exhibition Day in Middelburg -- Most Likely from Angola -- What Became of Them? -- No Traces in the Archives -- Shipowner Pieter van der Haegen and Captain Melchior van den Kerckhoven -- Carte Blanche: Obtaining Permission from the National Government -- Slavery: Not Here in Europe -- Keeping Slavery an Ocean Away -- Temporary Stay -- Africans in Amsterdam: Rembrandt's View -- Notes -- 3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color -- Notes -- References -- 4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject -- Diasporic Vision: Visualizing Black Europe and the Indexicality of Race -- Family Matters: Race, Gender, and Belonging in Black German Photography -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity -- Anxious Identities and Black European Diasporic Subjectivity.