Title (eng)
Geographies of a transnational urban black consciousness through artists and activists
mapping self-directed blackness in Vienna, Brussels, and Oakland
Author
Teju Adisa-Farrar
Advisor
Nick Schuermans
Assessor
Nick Schuermans
Abstract (deu)
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Abstract (eng)
This thesis looks at the experiences and culture initiated by some Black artists and activists on an urban scale, as well as their individual microgeographies within their city of residence. However, cities—no matter how diverse they can be—are still amalgamations of national discourses, traditions, and politics as well as hyper-local realities. Often there is a dissonance between being both Black and American or Black and European or African in Europe, thus these activists and artists find “it easier to identify with a general sense of Europeanness, African identity, or a wider black diasporic consciousness” (Hawthorne, 159). It is this “Black diasporic consciousness,” which is being mapped through the local realities of the respondents in this thesis.
Keywords (eng)
microgeographiesBlacknessdiasporaBlack urbanismpostcolonial
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Extent (deu)
63 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Number of pages
66
Study plan
Masterstudium DDP Urban Studies
[UA]
[066]
[664]
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Title (eng)
Geographies of a transnational urban black consciousness through artists and activists
mapping self-directed blackness in Vienna, Brussels, and Oakland
Author
Teju Adisa-Farrar
Abstract (deu)
Nicht angegeben.
Abstract (eng)
This thesis looks at the experiences and culture initiated by some Black artists and activists on an urban scale, as well as their individual microgeographies within their city of residence. However, cities—no matter how diverse they can be—are still amalgamations of national discourses, traditions, and politics as well as hyper-local realities. Often there is a dissonance between being both Black and American or Black and European or African in Europe, thus these activists and artists find “it easier to identify with a general sense of Europeanness, African identity, or a wider black diasporic consciousness” (Hawthorne, 159). It is this “Black diasporic consciousness,” which is being mapped through the local realities of the respondents in this thesis.
Keywords (eng)
microgeographiesBlacknessdiasporaBlack urbanismpostcolonial
Keywords (deu)
Nicht angegeben
Subject (deu)
Type (deu)
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Number of pages
66
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