Notes on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World (original) (raw)

The paper discusses the evolution of cultural citizenship within the Black Atlantic context, highlighting the debates surrounding citizenship concepts that arose in the 1990s. It critiques the dominant state-centric understandings and emphasizes how new forms of social and political authority emerge from transnational migration and cultural processes. It calls for innovative ethnographic methodologies to address the complexities of race, national identity, and power in contemporary migratory contexts.