ABSTRACT
Racial discrimination, for example, is often studied in relation to a single nation-state, yet much can be learned through a comparative study of the structural racisms and patterns of power that shapes most Black Atlantic societies. Black performers like Milton Goncalves and Ruth de Souza recount their travails in dealing with the stereotypes and paternalism of white-dominant media, in anecdotes strikingly similar to those of black artists in the US and the UK The concept of Black Atlantic Cinema, in a similar way, calls attention to a broad spectrum of African and Afro-diasporic filmmakers in the Americas and Africa, and to the thousands of mediatic treatments of large-scale Black Atlantic themes such as slavery, abolition, discrimination, and Afro-diasporic cultural expression. Some scholars, such as Awam Amkpa and Gunja Sengupta, go even farther by “provincializing” even Atlantic Studies by mingling the scholarly waters of Black Atlantic Studies with those of Black Pacific studies, reconfigured as an even broader Transoceanic Black Studies.
