African Homecoming

Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage

Katharina Schramm, Beverley Butler

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English

Left Coast Press Inc
15 September 2010

Black & Asian studies; Anthropology

Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series

African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly “come home” to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.

She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (e.g. the slave forts), events (e.g. Emancipation Day) and discourses (e.g. repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home, homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the sphere of roots tourism.

By: Katharina Schramm
Foreword by: Beverley Butler
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781598745146
ISBN 10: 159874514X
Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
Pages: 319
Publication Date: 15 September 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Foreword by Beverley Butler Prologue: Confronting the Past (Richard Wright) 1 Introduction: Homecoming and the Ambivalence of Belonging 2 The Layout of an Ideology: Claiming the African Heritage in Early Panafricanism 3 Early Connections: Ghana's Independence 4 History Cast in Stone: Representing the Slave Trade at Ghana's Forts and Castles 5 Confronting the Past: Touring Cape Coast Castle 6 Pilgrimage Tourism: Homecoming as a Spiritual Journey 7 Emancipation Day: A Route to Understanding Homecoming 8 ""The Re-Emergence of African Civilization"": Claiming a Common Heritage In PANAFEST 9 Pan-Africanism as a Ressource: Contested Relationships of Belonging in the Practice of Homecoming 10 Conclusion References Index About the Author"

Katharina Schramm is a lecturer in anthropology at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Free University in Berlin. She has written a number of articles on issues of tourism, memory and race. She is co-editor of Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (Berghahn, 2009). Her current research focuses on the interface between diaspora-identity, new genetics and citizenship.

Reviews for African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage

"""The greatest strength of the monograph is the thorough historical framework Schramm assembles, which would be of interest to any researcher of the African diaspora, identity, and issues of community engagement. Her thorough analysis produces insightful connections drawn between the sensorial experience of the Cape Coast Castle before its restoration and the debates surrounding the 'whitewashing controversy' which serve to highlight the multiple nature of authenticity."" - Liza Gijanto, Journal of Anthropological Research"