Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contesting politics as usual : Black social movements, globalization , and race policy in Latin America / Tianna S. Paschel and Mark Q. Sawy er -- Multiethnic nations and cultural citizenship : proposals from the Afro-descendant movement in Ecuador / Jhon Antâon Sâanchez -- The Blac k movement in Panama : a historical and political interpretation, 1994- 2004 / George Priestley and Alberto Barrow -- The liberation imperative of Black genocide : blueprints from the African diaspora in the Americ as / Joäao H. Costa Vargas -- Transnational Black feminism in the twent y-first century : perspectives from Brazil / Kia Lilly Caldwell -- The emergence and evolving character of contemporary Afro-Bolivian mobiliza tion : from the performative to the political / Sara Busdiecker -- Afro -descendant struggles for collective rights in Latin America / Juliet H ooker -- Indians of African descent : history and contemporary experien ce / Beheroze Shroff -- Taking on empires : reparations, the right of r eturn, and the people of Diego Garcia / David Vine -- Fightback : the m ovement against racial profiling in Europe / Clarence Lusane -- Rethink ing global justice : Black women resist the transnational prison-indust rial complex / Julia Sudbury -- Reconstituting political genealogies : reflections on youth, racial justice, and the uses of history / Ana Apa ricio -- New forms : the political potential of hip-hop / Raymond Codri ngton -- Eco-apartheid and global greenwaves : African diasporic enviro nmental justice movements / Melissa Checker -- Sista' friends and other allies : domestic workers united and coalition politics / Premilla Nad asen -- Barack Obama and the contours of African American social protes t movements / Manning Marable -- New social movements in Nubian identit y among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States / Carolyn Fluehr -Lobban and Richard A. Lobban.