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    Aref, Tunis (2014), courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Scarlett Coten, Mectoub: In the Shadow of the Arab Spring

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    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[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Letter from the Editors: “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom”

    Author: The Editors

    Our latest call for papers, “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom” sought to explore and question the notions of speech and open-ended discourse as “free,” and to[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Dispatches from Lahore: The Importance of Politicized Ancestral Narratives

    Author: Sania N. Sufi

    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[...]

    On Umbrellas… -- Lumley Market, Freetown Sierra Leone, July 2015

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    (Alter)Native Lens: Seeing my Sierra Leone like a Postcolony

    Author: Fodei Batty

    “…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[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Excitable Speech and the Politics of the Womb – Wake Up Grrrl!

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    A global  ‘War on Terror’ is being waged against women’s rights.[1] A rancid war waged on a historically notorious terrain of gendered, asymmetrical power relations.  A battle of bugle calls[...]

    Salt-of-Earth

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Magazine

    Unsalting the Earth: Sebastião Salgado and Le Sel de la Terre

    Author: Ann Deslandes

    A film about renowned social photographer Sebastião Salgado, created by master documentarian Wim Wenders, makes sense from the outset. The two figures share a history of political commentary, each crafting[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Braving Oceans: Migration and Subjective “Illegality” from the Pilgrim Fathers to Boat Migrants

    Author: Fodei Batty

    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:[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Writing Rites of Reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean Remembering

    Author: Melanie Manuel-Webb

    In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott noted that a “sense of elegy, of loss, even of degenerative mimicry” defines our understanding of the sweep of Caribbean and arguably post-plantation[...]

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    Creative · Featured · Magazine

    No is Yes (poetry)

    Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

    Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    From Port-au-Prince to Baltimore, with Love

    Author: Lesley Curtis

    A cartoon joking about the ease with which Haitians gained their freedom from French rule bounced around Facebook this week, as protests continued in Baltimore following the death of Freddie[...]

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    Culture · Featured

    Reading and Mis-Reading Frantz Fanon

    Author: Sara Salem

    “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[...]

    Controversial statue. Image credit: UCT Rhodes must Fall

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    “Rhodes Must Fall” – Decolonisation Symbolism – What is happening at UCT, South Africa?

    Author: Brian Kamanzi

    Photo credit: UCT Rhodes Must Fall In this moment it appears increasingly clear that the growing levels of inequality and the tensions in national politics in the South African context[...]

    BokoHaram

    Featured · Magazine

    What’s in a name? Boko Haram and the Politics of “Terrorism” in Africa

    Author: Fodei Batty

    Unlike groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (also known as Daesh), Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in sub-Saharan Africa are less frequently,[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Summary Execution: A Recent Episode of Police Violence Against Young, Black Males in Bahia, Brazil

    Author: Cidinha da Silva

    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[...]

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    Call for Papers · Featured

    Call for Papers, Spring/Summer 2015: “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom”

    Author: The Editors

    The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Defending Charlie Hebdo? Secularism, Islam and the War on Error

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Photo Credit What postcolonial response can be made of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which led to the brutal massacre of most its editorial board? On[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Magazine

    What does French National Unity Look Like? Personal Reflections on Charlie Hebdo

    Author: Laura Reeck

    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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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Surviving Ebola, Surviving Postcolonialism?

    Author: Fodei Batty

    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[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Letter from the Editors: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis”

    Author: The Editors

    The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]

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    "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

    Economies of Enjoyment and Terror in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave

    Author: Zachary Price, PhD

    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[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    “Vignettes” – Havana, Cuba, 2014 (by Annie McNeill Gibson)

    Author: Annie McNeill Gibson

    Introducción I walk over the broken eggshells on the corner of E and 13 and wonder what paths Eleguá opened today? Cuba is the daughter of Ochún. Be careful because[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Mexico’s Border (In)Security

    Author: Rebecca Galemba

    Nearly every block of the former sleepy colonial town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, Mexico now hosts a “Travel Agency”, which advertises trips to Tecate, Baja California, Altar, Sonora, and Tijuana,[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine · Releases

    Dak’art 2014: At a crossroads

    Author: Anna Stielau

    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

    This Borderland Called My Sexuality: Excavating Queer Nightlife of the American Southwest Through the Lens of Intersectionality

    Author: Kris Klein Hernandez

    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 Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Mythology, Taboo and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

    Author: Alissa Simon

    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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