Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner-City Youth and the New Global Frontier

Charles Green

Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner-City Youth and the New Global Frontier
Format
Paperback
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
7 March 2001
Pages
224
ISBN
9780742502697

Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner-City Youth and the New Global Frontier

Charles Green

Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization. Green pays particular attention to the condition of the youth, whose aspirations, vulnerabilities, and insights into their own conditions are central to the future prospects for their communities as a whole. Considering the impacts of economic restructuring and cultural diffusion alike, his analysis asserts the importance of both global ties and local distinctiveness. Ultimately, Manufacturing Powerlessness aims to encourage the formation of alliances throughout the diaspora so that urban black communities can manufacture a future of empowerment. Visit the author’s web page

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