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The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
Che Guevara once said that revolutions are driven by a deep sense of love.[1] I smile at these words, for I have witnessed such love of humanity in the pedagogical[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
Cet article se propose d’interroger le tournant postcolonial opéré par le rap français dans les années 2000 en s’intéressant à la fois à l’émergence d’une critique postcoloniale dans cette musique[...]
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“…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
On peut lire du désespoir dans la question – fameuse, rituelle, depuis longtemps routinisée – que pose Antoine Compagnon dans sa conférence inaugurale au Collège de France : Pourquoi parler –[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
¿Qué ocurre cuando una novela da que hablar antes de su publicación? ¿Qué ocurre cuando se la conoce sólo por uno de los temas que aborda? Sin duda, la última[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Magazine
Liberté d’expression et humour font l’objet d’une quête permanente de leurs limites. C’est un truisme de rappeler que la liberté n’est pas l’espace ouvert à tous les possibles contenus dans[...]
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One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]
“Fanon was angry. His readers should still be angry too. Angry that the wretched of the earth are still with us. Anger does not in itself produce political programs for[...]
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Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani is often compared to William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, and occasionally, to Arab authors such as Yahya Haqqi, all bound together as allegorists. The Palestinian novella, Men[...]
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Photo credit: Morgana Damásio. In protest in 2014 against the genocide of the Black population in the city of Salvador, Bahia promoted by the courageous and fearless campaign REAJA OU[...]
On sabbatical in France, two days before the attacks in Paris I delved back into an essay in progress on immigrant and ethnic minority writing. Writing it has required solving[...]
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The Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and the international response to it, has reprised contentious questions about postcolonial paternalism in Africa. This satirical piece reflects upon these[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives
Introduction Hollywood has had, at best, an oblique relationship to America’s longest running nightmare, slavery. As Donald Bogle demonstrated in Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured
Dans « Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex : A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics[1]» (1989), Kimberlé Crenshaw explique pourquoi le féminisme afro-américain[...]
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Towering over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the recently completed African Renaissance Monument casts a long shadow that stretches out across the surrounding suburb of Ouakom. Ahead of these three[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Culture · Featured · Releases
Theories of intersectionality, established and cultivated by specialists such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Patricia Hill Collins, have transformed the manner in which researchers deconstruct interconnecting notions of race, gender, and[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Releases
« Il faut liquider l’héritage de Mai 68 » : est-ce possible aujourd’hui ? Ce phénomène historique semble être désormais enraciné dans la culture et l’histoire françaises, comme s’il était[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured
The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]
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Travelling with Joseph in the Wake Black Gay Genius, an anthology edited by Steven Fullwood and Charles Stevens, opens with a meditation, a series of haunting questions that linger and will,[...]
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Dr. Amanda Rogers, a member of our editorial board, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda” at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, where she is currently an[...]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]
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Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]
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I was born in Quebec the same year that Bill 101, or The Charter of the French Language, was passed in the Canadian province. There was something strange, in terms[...]
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* All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]
