AfroSwedish Places of Belonging

Rooted in cultural studies and critical feminist thought, this text contends with AfroSwedishness, as a racialized ethnic and community-based identity, especially in relation to imaginations of self, and notions of belonging, agency, and kinship. Placing emphasis on the liberatory public potential of diverse forms of cultural expression, Osei-Kofi surveys biographical narratives, documentary films, digital Black feminist media, and queer organizing, offering key insights into the embodied, affective, and experiential processes with which, what she describes as the formation of an emergent, coalitional identity, is made possible.

Nana Osei-Kofi, who was born and raised in Gothenburg, is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, & Sexuality at Oregon State University. Her areas of scholarly focus include critical and feminist pedagogies, the politics of American higher education, and Black European Studies.