Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility

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Index Abbas, Ackbar, 11 absolutist thinking, genocide as product of, 81 Achebe, Chinua, 278n.32 Aeneid (Virgil), 192, 196 Africa: Burroughs’s Tarzan-complex image of, 190–91, 219; complex transnational links between diaspora and, 62–69; contemporary representations of, 83–84; early European production of images of, on postcard, 131; great Western photographic archive of, 135; idea of emergent and independent, 237; photographic history produced in African studios, 135–41; in popular culture, emergence of image of, 49; portrayal in film, 219–22; portrayal in scholarly journals, travel writing, and literature, 220 Africa as Diaspora, 82 Africa–Europe relationship: colonialism’s role in, 7–8; invisibility of colonial soldiers and deeply rooted tensions in, 21–22; neocolonialist, 201; postcolonial dependency, 156, 179 African Americans: contemporary and historical racially encoded images of, 38–39; exhibitions rejected by Chicago Columbia Exposition, 123–24; mindset, 10–11; social unrest among, 15–16; soldiers, relationship between Senegalese soldiers and, 225–26, 227, 233–34; stereotypes of, 139, 274n.14. See also slavery African diaspora: “lost worlds” of contemporary, 280n.44; pan-Africanism and, 54 Africanist/Creole literary voice, 301n.3 African postcolonial states. See postcolonial state(s) African Queen, The (film), 219 African Rank-and-File: Social Implications of Colonial Military Service in the King’s African Rifles, 1902–1964, The (Parsons), 226 328 INDEX Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Hall), 281n.2 African Union: meeting in Addis Ababa, Annan speaking before, 292n.32; monitors in Darfur, 101, 103 African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), 93 Afrocentricism, 47–52; Panther party and, 50, 51; preoccupation of 1960s and 1970s with ancient African civilizations, or kingdoms, 48; redemptive image of Africa and, 50 “Afrochauvinism” in Panther party, legacy of internal, 50 Afro-Europe, envisioning, 8–16; Eco on, 8–9 afro-pessimism, 162–63 Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Moses), 49–50 Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Gilroy), 56 Agamben, Giorgio, 27, 28, 29, 87, 193, 279n.40, 280n.43 agrégé of university, title of, 199, 302n.7 AIDS, 43 Ajani, 255 Albahari, Mauricio, 275n.18 Albania, 285n.19; Albanians seeking refuge in Italy in 1991, 275n.18, 286n.19 Al-Bashir, Omar Hassan, 292n.36 Alfieri, Benedetto, 113 Algeria, 163, 223, 300n.7 Ali, Mustapha Abu, 276n.24 alien cultures, 143, 144, 147; home as location infused with cultural logic of, living in diaspora and, 146 Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race, An (Merrill), 114, 275 alterity: as crucial site of self-construction, 55; dialectics of, 54; exclusion through freezing or exoticizing, 55; groundwork of diasporic practice laid by, 63; sense of belonging complementary to, 69 Althusser, Louis, 260 Al-Zain, Osama, 276n.24 Amelio, Gianni, 285n.19 America, L’ (Amelio film), 285n.19 American Friends Service Committee, 51 Americans, as new neocolonial power, 232, 233–34 Amnesty International Annual Report, 279n.39 ancestral forces, Senghor’s invocation of link of fallen colonial soldiers to, 193 Andreotti, Giulio, 66 Angel-Ajani, L. Asale, 8, 276n.22 Annan, Kofi A., 92, 103, 287n.5, 287n.6, 290n.19, 292n.32 anthropologist: black anthropological practitioners, 124; loss of traditional anthropological object, 36, 37; of old order, 36–37; profile of field worker, changes in, 36 anthropology: dialectics of experience, 53–54; image INDEX 329 making in, 37–43; “stateless societies” of old, contemporary representations of Africa similar to, 83–84. See also ethnography anti-immigrant ideology in Italy in 1990s, viii–ix, 8, 253, 274n.16 anti-imperialism, 182–83; cultural work of, 175–76. See also colonialism anti-Semitism, viii–ix, 282n.3 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 153 Appadurai, Arjun, 135 Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Johnson), 44 “Arab pastoralists” vs. “African farmers” in Sudan, 91–92, 95, 98, 103–4 “Arab supremacy,” ideology in Darfur of, 99 architecture, role in classification of cultures of colonized races into hierarchies based on stages of evolution, 296n.14 Architecture for Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (Scott), 295 Arendt, Hannah, 27, 29, 279n.36, 305n.9 Armée D’ Afrique, campaigns of L’, 223. See also Tirailleurs Sénégalais Askew, Thomas, 126 “Assassinations” (Senghor), 196 assimilation, 199–200; citizenship modeled along assimilationist principles articulated at Brazzaville (1944), 303n.6; Effok massacre and shattering of hopes of, 237; Thiaroye uprising (1944) and shattering of expectations of, 204 Atlanta Exposition (1895), 127 Aunt Jemima...