On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence
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For the first time in critical theory, the Black subject can see itself whole. It can now tell its story from the emergence of the first humans in Africa to the present, as a relatively unbroken continuum. The epistemological conditions for the emergence of a new Black subjectiv…
A number of books and articles have explored aspects of the pan-African ties between Ethiopia and the black diaspora. Although a much commendable and long overdue contribution, the works focus almost exclusively on the Italo-Ethiopian war period, and, even then, remain North Ame…
The purpose of this study is to draw out the important though neglected international dimension of the flowering of black literary activity in the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance. By exploring the international experiences of several key Harlem Renaissance figures and text…
Although the black diaspora is often conceptualized primarily in terms of race, sexuality has been equally foundational to the construction of black diasporic culture and politics. “Queer Natives” begins from the premise that the black diaspora poses a historical and conceptual …
Based on the research questions employed in this study, the Nigerian immigrant community first began with student sojourners and is currently more effective within the African-American context. This community would perhaps have been much slower in evolving but for the crisis of …
This dissertation, Postcards from the Edge-City: Mass-Media and Photographic Images in Contemporary Novels of the Black Diaspora , examines the use of photographic and mass-media images in literary representations of Black urban slums or "edge-cities." I explore four contemporar…
This study proposes that - rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics - Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constel…