How do you make grey, is it as simple as adding black to white or white to black? There are many different ways to create grey, for example there is a warm gray and a cool grey. Wait, isn't everything grey, grey? How do you identify various shades of gray when using the same colors? I make this analogy of the difficulties involved in creating gray in the same way, Kamari editors Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas describe the difficulties in producing blackness in Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. I agree with Clarke and Thomas's argument that racial inequalities are so deeply rooted in social prejudices that they inhibit who belongs in which geographic location based on historical race. This raises another question about how we see black people in Canada, the Caribbean, Germany and Britain. In the essay written by Jaqueline Nassy Brown, Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America” in Black Liverpool, she states: “That there is no real space that can be called African diaspora…” (73). Brown argues that “diaspora” has become a buzzword in globalization discourse and that this is commonly the space mapped for racial formation (74). Furthermore, Brown content gender ideologies between black Liverpool and black America are social spaces experienced, connected, and traversed differently (75). Brown's ethnographic research has investigated the black identity of black people in Liverpool since the Second World War and the civil rights movement as it relates to their relationship with black Americans. It highlights the sexist dynamics between black males and black females in Liverpool. Black men who were predominantly sailors transferred from Africa refuse to date black women from Liverpool and marry white English or Irish women. Their mulatto children born to this union were called “half-caste” (76) and struggled with their color identity because their African fathers refuse to talk about Africa. Their experience and desire to understand blackness was very different to that of Liverpool's local black people. Interestingly, when black American soldiers arrived in Liverpool three geographical spaces were created: first, the introduction to black culture and music; second, the creation of a black hierarchy of black American soldiers; and finally, the black migrant women of Liverpool who marry soldiers to live the American dream
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