Perhaps no single biblical verse has been more quoted in the history of Black religious thought than Psalm 68:31. Known widely as “the Ethiopian prophecy,” …
My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
In the late 1960s, a small group of Afro-Caribbean immigrant families from Britain’s Windrush generation came together to provide their children with academically rigorous and …
This dissertation is about the complex connections between religious faith and migrant inclusion, as experienced by African Pentecostal Christians living in the United Kingdom (UK). …
This study charts the affective and performative dimensions of intergenerational rupture between members of Eritrea’s diaspora in Bologna, Italy. This study locates political struggles around …
As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
Through its diaspora engagement policy, Ghana’s government invites Black Americans, a group with nebulous claims to a singular ancestral homeland, to return to a country …
This dissertation examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
This dissertation is a study of how imperial Brazil (1840-1889) shaped and was shaped by the history of international abolitionism. It traces the development of …
Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World is a visual ethnography that analyzes the ways Rastafari women build transnational communities through their …
In this article, I show how the incorporation of the global racial field—the hierarchical understanding of racial groups and geographies—into the non-western local context is …
