This is a work of cultural studies rooted in critical feminist thought that grapples with Afro Swedishness in relation to processes and experiences of racialization, imagination of self, and notions of belonging, agency, and kinship. Nana Osei-Kofi focuses on the function of diverse forms of critical cultural expressions, paying particular attention to their liberatory public pedagogical potential. Drawing from biographical narratives, documentary film, digital Black feminism, and queer organizing, Osei-Kofi offers insights into the embodied, affective, and experiential processes through which the formation of an emergent Afro Swedish coalitional identity is made possible. Through self-reflexive, structural, and community-based forms of exploration that resist binary oppositions, Afro Swedish Places of Belonging asks what the nomenclature of Afro Swede, Afro Swedish, and Afro Swedishness brings into being, what it makes possible, and what this means for Swedish society from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. This work brings together two identity categories that have historically been constructed as not only mutually exclusive but oppositional to detail the emergence of Afro Swedishness as a counterhegemonic and coalitional act. Afro Swedishness, Osei-Kofi argues, must be understood as a coalitional identity, one made legible through kinship-based community.
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