""Becoming Black "yields a complex and differentiated understanding of Enlightenment discourses on race and offers a framework for comparing the different models of subjecthood that underwrote the varying histories of colonialism and slavery. It is unique in that it brings Afro-German and Afro-French writings into dialogue with Afro-British and African American texts. There is no existing study of the African diaspora that brings such a range of national traditions together."--Madhu Dubey, author of "Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism"
"An important book for scholars of the African diaspora, "Becoming Black" puts the word 'diaspora' back into African American studies. There are bold new conversations here."--Sharon Holland, author of "Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity"
