Contents
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List of Contributors |
xi |
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Introduction: Women and Migration[s] |
1 |
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Part One: Imagining Family and Migration |
11 |
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1. |
Between Self and Memory |
13 |
2. |
Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s Story |
23 |
3. |
A Congolese Woman’s Life in Europe: A Postcolonial Diptych of Migration |
39 |
4. |
Migrations |
47 |
55 |
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5. |
Carrying Memory |
57 |
6. |
Making Through Motion |
71 |
7. |
Strange Set of Circumstances: White Artistic Migration and Crazy Quilt |
79 |
8. |
Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess |
91 |
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Part Three: Understanding Pathways |
105 |
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9. |
Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water |
107 |
10. |
My Baby Saved My Life: Migration and Motherhood in an American High School |
113 |
11. |
Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold |
121 |
12. |
Unveiling Violence: Gender and Migration in the Discourse of Right-Wing Populism |
135 |
13. |
A Different Lens |
155 |
14. |
Reinventing the Spaces Within: The Early Images of Artist Lalla Essaydi |
161 |
15. |
Swimming with E. C. |
167 |
193 |
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16. |
Kinship, the Middle Passage, and the Origins of Racial Slavery |
195 |
17. |
Black Women’s Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the ‘Good’ White Liberal Agenda |
207 |
18. |
Filipina Stories: Gabriela NY and Justice for Mary Jane Veloso |
217 |
19. |
Women & Migrations: African Fashion’s Global Takeover |
227 |
20. |
What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror |
233 |
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Part Five: Situated at the Edge |
241 |
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21. |
Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood |
243 |
22. |
Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity |
247 |
23. |
Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour |
265 |
24. |
Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American Art |
273 |
25. |
Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor |
283 |
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Part Six: Transit, Transiting, and Transition |
299 |
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26. |
Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings |
301 |
27. |
Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World |
323 |
28. |
Supershero Amrita Simla, Partitioned Once, Migrated Twice |
331 |
29. |
Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement |
345 |
30. |
The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race in Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation |
363 |
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Part Seven: The World is Ours, Too |
377 |
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31. |
The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart |
379 |
32. |
‘The World is Ours, Too’: Millennial Women and the New Black Travel Movement |
395 |
33. |
Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo’s Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890–1900 |
415 |
34. |
‘I Don’t Pay Those Borders No Mind At All’: Audley E. Moore (‘Queen Mother’ Moore) — Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist |
439 |
35. |
Löis Mailou Jones in the World |
453 |
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Part Eight: Emotional Cartography: Tracing the Personal |
471 |
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36. |
The Ones Who Leave… the Ones Who Are Left: Guyanese Migration Story |
473 |
37. |
The Acton Photograph Archive: Between Representation and Re-Interpretation |
491 |
38. |
Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works |
505 |
39. |
Transnational Minor Literature: Cristina Ali Farah’s Somali Italian Stories |
533 |
40. |
Seizing Control of the Narrative |
555 |
41. |
Migration as a Woman’s Right: Stories from Comparative and Transnational Slavery Histories in the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds |
561 |
42. |
The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan |
581 |
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List of Illustrations |
605 |
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Index |
619 |
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