“Look, a Negro!” The famous deictic cited by Frantz Fanon indicates both the spectacular and banal appearance of racial blackness in our field of vision. …
Abstract of “In Search of Equiano’s Sister: Girlhood and Slavery in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1600-1807,” by Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D., Brown University, May …
In African American and black diasporic literary studies, prominent critical conversations hail love as the foundation for racial cohesion. Without adequately attending to love as …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
This study traces U.S. ritual murder—redefining lynching as a practice that aims to torture, murder, terrorize, and manifest a visual symbolic language. This visual language …
"The Anticolonial Imagination" is an examination of race, migration, politics, and the history of ideas in the interwar period (1919-1939). Based on archival material collected …