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Reading Du Bois On East Africa: Epistemological Implications Of Apartheid Constructions Of Knowledge, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2014

Reading Du Bois On East Africa: Epistemological Implications Of Apartheid Constructions Of Knowledge, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Representation In Kenya, Its Diaspora, And Academia: Colonial Legacies In Constructions Of Knowledge About Kenya's Coast, Jesse Benjamin Apr 2014

Representation In Kenya, Its Diaspora, And Academia: Colonial Legacies In Constructions Of Knowledge About Kenya's Coast, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

This paper explores the construction of knowledge in Kenya in the context and aftermath of colonialism and underdevelopment. Those communities that were politically and economically marginalized in Coast Province over the past century were also displaced in terms of academic opportunities, resulting in fewer social science scholars from Mijikenda and other non-Swahili communities in both Kenyan and diaspora universities. Underdevelopment studies in Africa and Kenya are briefly reviewed, and the colonial history of asymmetric social relations at coastal Kenya is traced. Finally, key debates over identity and history are examined within this context and shown to be exacerbated by diasporic …


Dubois' World And East Africa: Pan-African Epistemology Beyond Colonial And World-Systems Sociology, Jesse Benjamin Feb 2013

Dubois' World And East Africa: Pan-African Epistemology Beyond Colonial And World-Systems Sociology, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Roundtable On Kurdish Conflict Management Strategies, Jesse Benjamin, Kani Xulam, Haluk Bingol Mar 2012

Roundtable On Kurdish Conflict Management Strategies, Jesse Benjamin, Kani Xulam, Haluk Bingol

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Affective Economies: Indigenous Conflict Over Natural Resources In Contemporary India, Jesse Benjamin Mar 2012

Affective Economies: Indigenous Conflict Over Natural Resources In Contemporary India, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Campus-Based Organizing: Academic And Student Activism, Jesse Benjamin, Brooke Lober, Ilana Rossoff May 2010

Campus-Based Organizing: Academic And Student Activism, Jesse Benjamin, Brooke Lober, Ilana Rossoff

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Race And Ethnicity In The Arab World, Jesse Benjamin Apr 2009

Race And Ethnicity In The Arab World, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Restoring The Culture Of Peace In Islamic East And Northeast Africa, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2008

Restoring The Culture Of Peace In Islamic East And Northeast Africa, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


The Difference A Perspective Makes: Teaching Race And Ethnicity From A 500-Year World Historical Epistemological Perspective, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2007

The Difference A Perspective Makes: Teaching Race And Ethnicity From A 500-Year World Historical Epistemological Perspective, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Constructions Of Genealogies Of Knowledge As Academic Apartheid: Beginning To Analyze The Displacement Of Oliver C. Cox In World Systems Theory And Anthropology, Jesse Benjamin Jan 2004

Constructions Of Genealogies Of Knowledge As Academic Apartheid: Beginning To Analyze The Displacement Of Oliver C. Cox In World Systems Theory And Anthropology, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


A 500-Year Epistemological Approach To Teaching About Race And Racism, Jesse Benjamin Apr 2003

A 500-Year Epistemological Approach To Teaching About Race And Racism, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Dealing With Whiteness: The Use Of History And Epistemology To Explore Racism, Jesse Benjamin Mar 2002

Dealing With Whiteness: The Use Of History And Epistemology To Explore Racism, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Bringing It All Back Home: Racial Issues In Minnesota Classrooms, Jesse Benjamin Mar 2001

Bringing It All Back Home: Racial Issues In Minnesota Classrooms, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Bringing It All Back Home: Racial Issues In Minnesota Classrooms, Jesse Benjamin Dec 2000

Bringing It All Back Home: Racial Issues In Minnesota Classrooms, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.