{"id":16536,"date":"2021-01-29T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2021-01-26T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:11:10","slug":"whats-on-your-reading-list-ibrahima-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2021\/01\/whats-on-your-reading-list-ibrahima-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat\u2019s on Your Reading List, Ibrahima Wade?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am re-reading Paul Gilroy\u2019s \u2018L\u2019Atlantique Noire,\u2019 in French this time! In his work, \u2018The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness,\u2019 Gilroy articulates engaging and provocative postulations that could help frame current socio-cultural and political occurrences in America and in Europe. Gilroy\u2019s book, to me, remains one of the outstanding critical approaches which seek to discuss and elucidate the on-going mutations and other complexities of the identities of the Black diasporic subject. Discussing Black transnational mobilities of African-Americans and Caribbean (of Africans in exile later in his work) Gilroy argues that \u2018Whether their experience is enforced or chosen, temporary or permanent, these intellectuals and activists, writers, speakers, poets, and artists repeatedly articulate the desire to escape the restrictive bonds of ethnicity, national identification, and sometimes, even \u201crace\u201d itself.\u2019 As an African and Francophone intellectual (with a triple heritage of African, French, and Arabo-Islamic cultures), I cannot but find high resonance in Gilroy\u2019s discussion on this complex psychological <em>\u00e9tat d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em> which transcends the simple <em>fact of being<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This constant effort of internalizing and reconciling chosen or forced heritages is vividly and pertinently captured in Gilroy\u2019s book through his discussion of Dubois\u2019 notion of \u2018double consciousness\u2019 in the African American individual.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Gilroy re-locates enriching contributions by Black diasporic subjects toward the center of modern capitalist European societies. Gilroy\u2019s conception of diaspora here is neither exclusively African, Caribbean, American or strictly located in any one Western European country. Furthermore, \u2018The Black Atlantic\u2019 proposes an analysis of the historical as well as contemporary constructions of race, racial difference, class, and identity. The author argues for a more rigorous and informed engagement with the representation of the \u2018others,\u2019 with separate identities emerging in culturally syncretizing modern western societies.<\/p>\n<p>Gilroy\u2019s book constitutes an important tool in my teaching repertoire for all my literature and culture courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am re-reading Paul Gilroy\u2019s \u2018L\u2019Atlantique Noire,\u2019 in French this time! In his work, \u2018The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness,\u2019 Gilroy articulates engaging and provocative postulations that could help frame current socio-cultural and political occurrences in America and in Europe. Gilroy\u2019s book, to me, remains one of the outstanding critical approaches which seek to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[30,38],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2020","tag-on-the-bookshelf","tag-web-extras"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2021\/01\/Ibrahima-Wade.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16858,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions\/16858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}