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Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Antiblackness (Studies in Transgression)
1439922705 rar Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the unasked question of blackness in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migrationcompelled by force or suggestion, from the transatlantic African slave trade to the Great Migration and the current refugee crisishas been structured to reinforce white supremacy. Focusing on antiblackness in immigration and examining restrictions on freedom of movement and on settling alike, chapters address how Black im/mobility operates and how it can be distinguished from that of the migrant and the colonial settler, as well as from the transgressive mobilities of Indigenous populations. Looking at blackness, borders and border practices, and displacement,