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Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Minnesota Press<\/a>
\nAugust 2022
\n304 pages
\n5\u00bd x 8\u00bd
\nCloth ISBN: 978-1-5179-1230-7
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-5179-1231-4<\/p>\n

Ryan Thomas Skinner<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Music and African American and African Studies
\nOhio State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by Jason Timbuktu Diakit\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A compelling examination of Sweden\u2019s<\/a> African and Black diaspora<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes<\/a> have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In Afro-Sweden<\/em>, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European<\/a> community.<\/p>\n

Skinner employs the conceptual themes of \u201cremembering\u201d and \u201crenaissance\u201d to illuminate the history and culture of the Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of global Black studies.<\/p>\n

The first scholarly monograph in English to focus specifically on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden, Afro-Sweden<\/em> emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices, knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its rigorously interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe<\/a> and the international impact of Black Lives Matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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