ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emergence of African European studies and Black European studies as fields of study in tandem with the recognition of African European and Black European communities. In an effort to explore the trajectory of the fields, the following questions are posed: Who gets to study Black Europe? How does Black Europe actually get studied? Who is studied? To examine these questions, the chapter addresses the institutionalisation of a field of study, modes of embedding the field in academia, and the reciprocal relationship between creating fields of study and community-making. The questions are examined and exemplified through a consideration of debates about the placement of African European studies within and beyond Europe, a case study of the emergence of African Diaspora and Black communities in the Republic of Ireland, and the pedagogical experience of university students in a Black European studies class in the United States.
