Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Trica Danielle Keaton is an Associate Professor in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Stephen Small is an Associate Professor in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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