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This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian." In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first-generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent. The rationale behind highlighting the experiences of the first generation of African immigrants within Canadian society is to address the empirical, conceptual, and methodological gaps in the literature that tends to homogenize all black people and their experiences. The book, thus, seeks to highlight the peculiar characteristics of continental Africans which may not be shared by other blacks or non-black Africans. The chapters examine the social constructions of African-Canadians and their experiences within the political and educational systems, as well as in the labour market. They also explore the forms of cooperation and tensions that characterize the communities, and how they negotiate and adapt to the multiple transnational spaces that they occupy. The book also explores the circumstances of their children, as they try to define their identities vis-à-vis their parents and the larger Canadian society.

Black people --- Africans --- Race identity --- Social conditions --- Canada --- Race identity. --- Social conditions.

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Regional planning --- Rural development --- African Americans --- Community life --- Heritage tourism --- Housing --- Race identity

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African American young men --- African Americans --- Educational equalization --- Social conditions. --- Psychology. --- Race identity. --- United States. --- United States --- Race relations.

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This book analyses the social and ethical implications of the globalization of emerging skin-whitening and anti-ageing biotechnology. Using an intersectional theoretical framework and a content analysis methodology drawn from cultural studies, the sociology of knowledge, the history of colonial medicine and critical race theory, it examines technical reports, as well as print and on-line advertisements from pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies for skin-whitening products. With close attention to the promises of ‘ageless beauty’, ‘brightened’, youthful skin and solutions to ‘pigmentation problems’ for non-white women, the author reveals the dynamics of racialization and biomedicalization at work. A study of a significant sector of the globalised health and wellness industries, Wellness in Whiteness will appeal to social scientists with interests in gender, race and ethnicity, biotechnology and embodiment.

Body image. --- Body image in women. --- Beauty, personal. --- Blacks --- Whites --- Skin --- Race identity. --- Bleaching --- Psychological aspects. --- Cutis --- Integument (Skin) --- Beauty, Personal --- Body covering (Anatomy) --- Race identity of whites --- Racial identity of whites --- Whiteness (Race identity) --- Race awareness --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of blacks --- Racial identity of blacks --- Ethnicity --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Beauty culture --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Women --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Ethnic identity --- Psychology --- Race identity of white people --- Racial identity of white people --- White people --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people

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American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today.Moving from the period of America’s engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allan Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.

National characteristics, American --- Arabs --- Islam in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- American literature --- Arabs in literature. --- American national characteristics --- Ethnology --- Semites --- History --- Race identity. --- History and criticism.