Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora Traditional ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1338837524

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1338837524

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1601620965

ISBN-10 : 059308568X

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Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora Traditional ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1338837524Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black