where isBlack Europe? Black Europe is not locatable; it is a discourseon location. BlackEurope, like Europe before it, points outward in many ultimately unmappabledirections. If Europe has never stayed within its own geographic boundaries,why should we expect Black Europe to do so? Black Europe is a racialized ge-ography of the imagination even for non-EuropeanBlacks. Family history andidentity are expressed and contested through networks, consisting of all sortsof routes, colonial and otherwise.
This question posed it very interesting to me, "Where is Black Europe?" Before doing the reading and before joining the class I was wondering the same thing. What and where exactly is Black Europe? The author in this quote does a great job in explaining this question. Going off of the term 'imagined nation,' an imagined nation is all internal. The nation holds its legitimacy as a place in the hearts of the people. This can be said of Black Europe, it is not just a place, it is a being and culture that holds it's legitimacy in the hearts of the people who claim they are a part of this culture. This culture and the values held are then passed down generation to generation and this legitimacy holds true. A sentiment I think is very powerful when thinking of a people that are often marginalized in the scale of the world. This quote does a great job in breaking down this notion and explaining that the people can be scattered all across Europe and even in the world, but as long as they hold onto their legitimacy Black Europe will always exist.