How Long to Read Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail

How Long Does it Take to Read Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail by Jacqueline Nassy Brown

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool."

How long is Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail?

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail by Jacqueline Nassy Brown is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail aloud.

What Reading Level is Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail?

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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