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George Lamming And Caribbean Political Conscience, Aaron Kamugisha
George Lamming And Caribbean Political Conscience, Aaron Kamugisha
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
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May We Forever Stand: A History Of The Black National Anthem By Imani Perry (Review), Daphne Lamothe
May We Forever Stand: A History Of The Black National Anthem By Imani Perry (Review), Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements Of Blackness/Indigeneity/Afrolatinidad, Paul Joseph López Oro
Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements Of Blackness/Indigeneity/Afrolatinidad, Paul Joseph López Oro
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
Central Americans of African descent are in the margins on the histories of transmigrations and political movements in the isthmus and their diasporas. The absence of Black Central Americans in Latinx Studies and Central American Studies is an epistemological violence inherited from Latin American mestizaje. The insurgence of Afro-Latinx Studies is an intellectual and political response to the erasure and negation of Black people and Blackness in the field of Latinx Studies. In this essay, I map out the political urgency to call for a refashioning of Afrolatinidad that dismantles the dangerous allure of ethno-racial nationalism (i.e., Afro-[insert nation-state]) and …
“Blessed Within My Selves”: The Prophetic Visions Of Our Lorde, Flávia Santos De Araújo
“Blessed Within My Selves”: The Prophetic Visions Of Our Lorde, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay discusses the intellectual and poetic work of Audre Lorde and its significance for contemporary global movements for liberation. My discussion considers Lorde’s theorizing of difference and power, as well as her poetic work, as prophetic interventions within the context of the 1960s to the early 1990s. I argue that Lorde’s intellectual and literary work is the result of a black woman’s embodied experiences within the intersections of many struggles—notably, the ones against racism, sexism, and homophobia. This strategic positionality becomes, as I discuss, the centrality of Lorde’s prophetic vision of collective and inclusive liberation: one that permeates past …
Rosana Paulino And The Art Of Refazimento: Reconfigurations Of The Black Female Body In The Land Of Racial Democracy, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Rosana Paulino And The Art Of Refazimento: Reconfigurations Of The Black Female Body In The Land Of Racial Democracy, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay analyzes the historical and aesthetic significance of the visual art project Assentamento(s) (2012-2013) by Rosana Paulino. Her work reinscribes the black female body into the historical narrative of Brazil, complicating long-established notions of “Brazilianness”. By using art techniques and materials that combine lithography, digital printing, drawing, sewing, video, and sculpting, Paulino develops a multi-layered artistic assembly that she describes as a process of refazimento (“remaking”). Paulino pushes the boundaries of the historical archives, highlighting both the struggles and agency of black women within Brazilian society. I argue that, as a contemporary black woman visual artist, Paulino engages in …
Marielle, Presente!, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Marielle, Presente!, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
Thank you so much for being here tonight to mourn and protest the brutal assassination of Marielle Franco. 1 A special thanks to our Smith student, Marcela Rodrigues Guimarães, who emailed some of us last weekend and infected us with her passion, mobilizing faculty and other students to gather here tonight. Marcela invited me to share a bit about how Marielle’s assassination fits into a much larger picture of transnational contexts of racism, state-sanctioned violence, and black women’s struggle for liberation. I could not be talking about Marielle under the current circumstances in any other way but from a place …
The City-Child's Quest: Spatiality And Sociality In Paule Marshall's The Fisher King, Daphne Lamothe
The City-Child's Quest: Spatiality And Sociality In Paule Marshall's The Fisher King, Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
In The Fisher King, Paule Marshall depicts urban spatial and social relations that resonate with the psychic and social ruptures of the African Diaspora. The novel’s central characters comprise a blended family with Southern African American and Caribbean roots. They reckon with problems of social marginalization, alienation, and fragmentation, engendered by their various experiences of dislocation. While mindful of the diverse histories, values, and worldviews within black America’s heterogeneous collectivity, Marshall ultimately privileges black women’s perspectives on the limits and possibilities of traversing geographic and social spaces. Hattie Carmichael, the “City child” who occupies the moral center of the novel, …
“Bein Alive & Bein A Woman & Bein Colored”:The Metaphysical Dilemma In Ntozake Shange, Sherley Anne Williams, And Toni Morrison | “Beinalive & Beinawoman & Bein Colored”: Odilemametafísico Em Ntozake Shange, Sherley Anne Williams E Toni Morrison, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay is an analysis of three literary works by black women writers from the U.S.: Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Sherley Ann Williams’ novel Dessa Rose, and Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. In my analysis, I use Shange’s trope of the “methaphysical dilemma” to consider the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality in these writers’ textual representations of black women’s bodies. Writing against a historical legacy of colonialism and domination that defined black bodies as “primitive” or “unbridled” (bell hooks 1991), I argue that these works illustrate some …
“Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá”: Garífuna Subjectivities And The Politics Of Diasporic Belonging, Paul Joseph López Oro
“Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá”: Garífuna Subjectivities And The Politics Of Diasporic Belonging, Paul Joseph López Oro
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
López Oro analyzes two census campaigns—one in New York City and one in Honduras—geared toward Garifuna populations in order to interrogate larger questions about how Garifuna populations are included, or not, within dominant discourses of Honduran multiculturalism and US Latinidad. He argues that Garifuna are a quintessentially diasporic population who disrupt common assumptions about what it means to be Honduran, Latino, and/or Black in the Americas.
Beyond The Flesh: Contemporary Representations Of The Black Female Body In Afro-Brazilian Literature, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Beyond The Flesh: Contemporary Representations Of The Black Female Body In Afro-Brazilian Literature, Flávia Santos De Araújo
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
This essay takes an intersectional and transnational approach to analyze how selected poetic texts by contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Conceição Evaristo, Esmeralda Ribeiro Cristiane Sobral, Miriam Alves, and Elisa Lucinda (re)design portrayals of Afro-descendant/black female bodies. As cultural artifacts, I argue that these poetic/political constructs give evidence of Afro- Brazilian female bodies as historical: on one hand, they represent the embodiment of “otherness” as they historically differ from the standards of (white) “normalcy;” on the other hand, they carry both the silenced histories of racial and sexual exploitation and the appeal of hyper-sexualized and exoticized stereotypes. I am also interested in …
Between Catastrophe And Carnival: Creolized Identities, Cityspace, And Life Narratives, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan
Between Catastrophe And Carnival: Creolized Identities, Cityspace, And Life Narratives, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Carnival In The Creole City: Place, Race And Identity In The Age Of Globalization, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan
Introduction: Carnival In The Creole City: Place, Race And Identity In The Age Of Globalization, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
This cluster of "Life Stories from the Creole City" brings together essays that focus on figures negotiating subjectivity within different "creole cities" at specific historical junctures, as these urban spaces become compelling sites for narrating subjectivity in negotiation with forces of globalization, diaspora, and cosmopolitanism. The essays variously illuminate the difficulties and payoffs associated with narrating lives in—and of—porous urban space.
Carnival In The Creole City: Place, Race And Identity In The Age Of Globalization, Daphne Lamothe
Carnival In The Creole City: Place, Race And Identity In The Age Of Globalization, Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
In this essay I argue that Haitian-American artists Edwidge Danticat and Wyclef Jean employ Carnival symbolism to explore the practices and politics of belonging in "global" cities. While meditating on the cultural and social dynamism produced by transnationalism, they resist the impulse to idealize its effects. In song and nonfictional narrative, they reflect also on the ways that historical and structural violence shape the lives of Haitian migrants in creolized cities.
Review: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism By Jacqueline Bobo: Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics By Bell Hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center By Bell Hooks, Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots And Routes, Daphne Lamothe
Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots And Routes, Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of: Black And White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations By Cheryl J. Fish, Daphne Lamothe
Review Of: Black And White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations By Cheryl J. Fish, Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Vodou Imagery, African-American Tradition And Cultural Transformation In Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Daphne Lamothe
Vodou Imagery, African-American Tradition And Cultural Transformation In Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Daphne Lamothe
Africana Studies: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.