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Passages: Airborne in an A frican Diaspora
Author(s) -
Bhimull Chandra D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12051
Subject(s) - diaspora , openness to experience , wonder , humanity , ethnography , empire , race (biology) , history , sociology , political science , media studies , gender studies , anthropology , ancient history , law , social psychology , psychology
Summary This article relays a story about race and empire in the air. It uses the openness of creative nonfiction to mix and link ostensibly disconnected ethnographic and archival moments. Focused on diaspora and flight, it ties the onset of airline travel to the recent rise of aerial deportations and deaths. It shows why the differentiation, discrimination, and domination of racial others took to the sky, leaving us to wonder what befalls humanity aloft.