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Much of the scholarly debate around the ""Afropolitan""-the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Most critiques object to how the ideals of transnationalism and mobility inevitably refer to Western models of leisure and style, and Afropolitanism has rarely been contextualized in global African diaspora histories. This volume of written and photographic essays is one of the first sustained historical treatments of the Afropolitan. Contributors analyze the concept in a variety of contexts: itinerant artisans in fourteenth-century southern Africa, sixteenth-century African diaspora communities in Latin America, West African kingdoms and port cities in the waning decades of the Atlantic slave trade, a hair salon in twenty-first-century Paris, a road trip through Bangladesh. By engaging with the Afropolitan as a historical phenomenon, the authors highlight new methods and theories for analyzing global diasporas. Contributors. Paulina L. Alberto, Antonia Carcelen-Estrada, Rosa Carrasquillo, Elizabeth Fretwell, Dawn Fulton, Mathangi Krishnamurthy, Patricia Martins Marcos, Ndubueze Mbah, Hector Mediavilla, Emeka Okereke, Melina Pappademos, Aniova Prandy, David Schoenbrun, Lorelle Semley

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Rosa Carrasquillo is Professor of Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino History at the College of the Holy Cross and author of The People’s Poet: Life and Myth of Ismael Rivera, an Afro-Caribbean Icon. Melina Pappademos is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut and author of Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic. Lorelle Semley is Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross and author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire.

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