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Jesse Benjamin

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A Dialogue On Land, State And Empire, Jesse Benjamin, Jesus Garcia, Kani Xulam, Nuri Okbi, Dia Cha, Winona Laduke Feb 2006

A Dialogue On Land, State And Empire, Jesse Benjamin, Jesus Garcia, Kani Xulam, Nuri Okbi, Dia Cha, Winona Laduke

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Slavery And Its Legacies In Africa And The Diaspora, Jesse Benjamin, Lindah Mhando Jan 2006

Slavery And Its Legacies In Africa And The Diaspora, Jesse Benjamin, Lindah Mhando

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


"The World And Africa": World-Systems Theories And The Erasure Of East Africa From World History, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2005

"The World And Africa": World-Systems Theories And The Erasure Of East Africa From World History, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

The article examines how some world historical and world systems narratives have or not have integrated Africa or various parts of the African continent into their models. It focuses on East Africa, a place which has experienced a considerable revolt against colonial biases since the 1960s. Moreover, a review of several and most popular and acclaimed scholars of world historical scholarships were presented with the aim of demonstrating that the colonial biases of African negation have not been swept aside. They include Fernand Braudel, Andre Gunder Frank, Janet Abu-Lughod, and Eric Wolf. It had suggested that scholars must guard against …


Squatters, Resistance To "Development," And Magic As A Tool Of Subaltern Power: A Case From Coastal Kenya, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2005

Squatters, Resistance To "Development," And Magic As A Tool Of Subaltern Power: A Case From Coastal Kenya, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


African Antiquity, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2005

African Antiquity, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Katama Mkangi's Epistemological And Political Legacy For Researchers Of East Africa's Coastal History: Implications Of Subaltern Speech, Jesse Benjamin Oct 2005

Katama Mkangi's Epistemological And Political Legacy For Researchers Of East Africa's Coastal History: Implications Of Subaltern Speech, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


The Swahili Coast, Jesse Benjamin May 2005

The Swahili Coast, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Post-Modern Pathologies And Pan-African Erasures: Problems Of Identity In Coastal East Africa, Jesse Benjamin Oct 2004

Post-Modern Pathologies And Pan-African Erasures: Problems Of Identity In Coastal East Africa, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Of Nabateans And Nubians: Implications Of Research On Neglected Dimensions Of Ancient World History, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2001

Of Nabateans And Nubians: Implications Of Research On Neglected Dimensions Of Ancient World History, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Nabateans And Nubians: The Case For Ancient Connections Between Africa And Asia, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2000

Nabateans And Nubians: The Case For Ancient Connections Between Africa And Asia, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

The exploration of relations between the Nubians and the Nabateans opens new possibilities concerning the historical and historiographic linkages between ancient East Africa and the ancient Middle East. In large part, such an analysis speaks to the re-mapping of Ancient World relations and the role of anti-colonial historiography in the execution of such a task. Anti-colonial historiography has challenged the presuppositions of the modern political construction of these regions and their interaction. It has done so by posing critical questions concerning the re-reading of existing data and, therefore, the reconstruction of the historical record. The new direction into Nubian/Nabatean relations …


The World And Africa: A Report On The Decolonization Of Historiography And Identity In East Africa, Jesse Benjamin May 2000

The World And Africa: A Report On The Decolonization Of Historiography And Identity In East Africa, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


The Questionable Coloniality Of Certain Anti-Colonial Nationalist Rhetoric: Swahili Identity And The Displacement Of Neo-Colonial Subjects At The Coast Of Kenya, Jesse Benjamin Mar 2000

The Questionable Coloniality Of Certain Anti-Colonial Nationalist Rhetoric: Swahili Identity And The Displacement Of Neo-Colonial Subjects At The Coast Of Kenya, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Walter Rodney's Historical Practice And The Politics Of Memory In East Africa, Jesse Benjamin Dec 1997

Walter Rodney's Historical Practice And The Politics Of Memory In East Africa, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Walter Rodney Roundtable, Jesse Benjamin, Ali Mazrui, Horace Campbell, Dennis Canterbury, Peter Carlo Dec 1997

Walter Rodney Roundtable, Jesse Benjamin, Ali Mazrui, Horace Campbell, Dennis Canterbury, Peter Carlo

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Anthropology And The Violence Of Representation: Engaging Multiculturalism: Repatriation Or Neo-Colonialism?, Jesse Benjamin Feb 1995

Anthropology And The Violence Of Representation: Engaging Multiculturalism: Repatriation Or Neo-Colonialism?, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.