Recent Publications

  • Shaonta' Allen

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    Allen, Shaonta' E. 2023. "Is the Black Church Dead? Religious Resilience and the Contemporary Functions of Black Christianity." Religions

    Allen, Shaonta'. 2023. "From "We Shall Overcome" to "We Gon Be Alright:" Assessing Black Liberation Movements Through Music." In Theology & Protest Music, edited by Jonathan Harwell and Heidi Altman.

    Allen, Shaonta'. 2023. "Book Review: Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells." Humanity & Society.

    Allen, Shaonta' and Maretta McDonald. 2023. "Multimedia Review: Women of the Movement, Season 1." Humanity & Society.

    Allen, Shaonta' and Maretta McDonald. 2023. "Introduction: The New Book & Media Reviews Section." Humanity & Society.

    Allen, Shaonta'. 2021. "The Black Feminist Roots of Scholar-Activism: Lessons from Ida B. Wells-Barnett" in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, edited by Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle.

     
    Allen, Shaonta'. 2021. "Braids, Beads, Catsuits, and Tutus: Serena Williams' Intersectional Resistance Through Fashion" in Athlete Activism: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Rory Magrath.

     
    Allen, Shaonta' and Brittney Miles. 2020. "Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism." Humanity & Society.

     
    Allen, Shaonta', Ifeyinwa Davis, Maretta McDonald, and Candice Robinson. 2020. "New Directions in the Sociology of Black Millennials." Sociological Perspectives.

     
    Allen, Shaonta'. 2019. "Doing Black Christianity: Reframing Black Church Scholarship." Sociology Compass.

     

  • Robert M. Baum

    West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, (November 2016). Finalist for Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions.

    Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.  Winner of the American Academy of Religion Award, "Best First Book in the History of Religions," 2000.

  • Michael A. Chaney

    Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel (2017).

    (Ed.) Where is All My Relation: The Poetics of Dave the Potter (2018).

    (Ed) Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (2011).

    Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).

    "'I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro': Black Armed Defense in Walter White's A Man Called White." MELUS 49.1 (2024): 122-143.

    "On U.S. Presidential Effigy." American Studies 63.1 (2024): 7-31.

    "Depicting African American Life in Graphics and Visual Cultures."  In A History of African American Autobiography, ed., Joycelyn Moody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021: 327-343.

    "Words, Wares, Names: Dave the Potter as American Archive." Anglia. Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 138.3 (2020): 1-20.

    "Anarchic Strains in the Comics of Ronald Wimberly and Keith Knight." SubStance: Special Issue on Comics and Anarchy 46.2 (2017): 110-128.

    "Signifying Marks and The 'Not Counted' Inscriptions of Dave the Potter." Arizona Quarterly 72.4 (Winter 2016): 1-25.

    "Digression, Slavery, and Failing to Return in The Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 39.4 (Fall 2016): 511-534.

    "The Cartoonal Slave." In The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Culture, eds. Soyica Colbert, Robert Patterson, and Aida Hussen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. 168-94.

    "Slave Memory Without Words in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner." Callaloo 36.2 (2013): 279-297.

    "The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter." African American Review 44.4 (2011): 607-18.

    "Animal Subjects of the Graphic Novel." College Literature 38.3 (2011): 129-149. 

    "Terrors of the Mirror and the Mise en Abyme of Graphic Novel Autobiography," College Literature 38:3 (2011) 21-44.

    "'Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture': Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature," American Literature 82:1 (2010) 57-90.

    "Drawing on History in Recent African American Graphic Novels," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 32:3 (2007) 175-200.

    "Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed's Cybernetic Aesthetics," Modern Fiction Studies 49:2 (2003) 261-283.

    "Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(bio)ethnography." African American Review 35.3 (2001): 391-408.

  • William Cheng

    SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS

    Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). Foreword by Richard Leppert

    Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Foreword by Susan McClary.

    Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford University Press, 2019).

     

    EDITED VOLUMES

    Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, ed. with Greg Barz, 2019).

    A Cultural History of Music in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, ed. with Danielle Fosler-Lussier).

     

    ARTICLES

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  • Ayo A. Coly

    Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body. (University of Nebraska Press, 2019.)

    The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone African Literatures. (Lexington Books, 2010)

    Homophobic Africa?, editor; special issue of African Studies Review, special issue 56.2 (2013)

     

    "He who Sows Colonization Will Reap Immigration: Some Insights from the New Migritude." The Minnesota Review  94 (Spring 2020)

    "Alain Mabanckou and the Category of World Literature." Research in African Literatures 51.3 (forthcoming, Fall 2020)

               

    "Conceptualizing Medical Humanities Programs in Low-Resource Settings in Africa." with Quentin Eichabaum and al. Academic Medicine, Vol. 94, No. 8 / August 2019.

    "The Invention of the Homosexual: How Homophobia became a Political Strategy in Senegal." Gender and Sexuality in Senegal. Eds. M'Baye Babacar and Besi Muhonja. Lexington Books, 2019. 27-52.

    "Carmen Goes Postcolonial, Carmen Goes Queer: Thinking the Postcolonial as Queer." Culture, Theory and Critique 57.3 (2016): 391-407

     

    "Un/Clothing African Womanhood: Colonial Statements and Postcolonial Discourses of the African Female Body." The Journal of Contemporary African Studies 33.1 (2015): 12-26. 

    "Afropean Masculinities as Bricolage." Francophone Afropean Literatures. Eds Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2014. 155-170.

    "Homophobic Africa?" African Studies Review 56.2 (2013): 21-32.

    "A Pedagogy of the Black Female Body: Angèle Essamba's Black Female Nudes." Third Text 24.6 (2010): 653-664.

     "Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Calixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Baker." Black Womanhood: Icons, Images and Ideologies of the African Body. University of Washington Press, 2008.  259-278.

    The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora, editor with Ivy G. Wilson; special issue of Callaoo 30.2 (2007)

     "Black is the Color of the Cosmos or Callaloo and The Cultures of the Diaspora Now,"  with Ivy G. Wilson;  Callaloo 30.2 (2007): 415-419

    "Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender and Home." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 32.3-4 (2005): 325-342.

    "Court Poet and Wild Child: Two Readings of Calixthe Beyala's Les Honneurs perdus" Nottingham French Studies 43.3 (2004): 15-27.

    "Neither Here Nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes." Research in African Literatures 33.2 (2002): 34-45.

     

     "Autobiography or Autojustification: Re-reading Bugul's Le baobab fou." The Literary Griot 11.2 (1999): 56-69.

  • Laura Edmondson

    "Labial Politics in Uganda: The Poetry and Activism of Stella Nyanzi." Forthcoming in Meridians: race, feminism, transnationalism (2025).

    "The Theatre of Tejumola Olaniyan: African Performance and the Possibilities of Strangeness." Journal of the African Literature Association, 18.2 (2024), 244–256.  

    "Faustin Linyekula and the Violence of Plague." Theatre Journal (December 2020): 405-423.

    "The Fabulous Pan-Africanism of Binyavanga Wainaina." GLQ 26.3 (June 2020): 529-560.

    "Anti-Homosexual Acts on Trial: The Poetics of Justice in Uganda." TDR 63.2 (Summer 2019): 6-33.

    Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

    Forged in Fire by Okello Kelo Sam, Laura Edmondson, and Robert Ajwang. Voorhees Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. 2015.

    "Uganda Is Too Sexy: Reflections on Kony 2012." TDR 56.3 (Fall 2012). 10-17.

    Forged in Fire (play). By Okello Kelo Sam, Laura Edmondson, and Robert Ajwang. Excerpted in Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters. Ed. Michael Balfour. Bristol, UK and Chicago: Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press, 2012. 61-66.

    Eat Like a Bird (play). In Cultural Conversations: Works in Progress, Writers in the Making, ed. Susan B. Russell (Lemont, PA: Eifrig Publishing, 2011), 91-132. 

    "Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda." In Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical, edited by Mike Sell.  Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 41-59.

    "Genocide Unbound: Erik Ehn, Rwanda, and an Aesthetics of Discomfort," Theatre Journal, 61:1 (March 2009): 65-83.

    Review essay: "Performing Africa."  African Affairs 109 (2009): 151-160.

    "The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda," in Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict, edited by Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon.  Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  54-78.

    Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage, Indiana University Press, 2007.

    "Of Sugarcoating and Hope," TDR, 51:2 (May 2007): 7-10.

    "Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda," Theatre Journal, 57:3 (2005): 451-474.

    "Love in the Time of Dissertations: An Ethnographic Tale," with R O Ajwang, Qualitative Inquiry, 9:3 (June 2003): 466-480.

  • Trica Keaton

    Books (monographs and edited volumes)

    Black Roles, Black Refusal: Racialized Representations in Post-2005 French Cinema, In progress
    #You Know You're Black in France When...The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, MIT Press, 2023
    Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, (co-edited), Duke University Press, 2012
    Black Europe and the African Diaspora, (co-edited), University of Illinois Press, 2009
    Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion, Indiana University Press, 2006

    Selected Articles and Other Publications

    "Why are French Authorities acknowledging racial profiling but doing nothing about it?" Contexts (Sociology for the Public), January 12, 2024, https://contexts.org/blog/france-racial-profiling/

    "Race," in Keywords for African American Studies (New York: New York University Press, 2018): 163-167

    "Au Nègre Joyeux: Everyday Anti-blackness Guised as Public Art," Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art (2016): 52-58

    "Review of Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe by Michael McEachrane (ed), The Black Scholar 46, no. 1 (2016): 77-80

    "Racial Profiling and the 'French Exception.'" French Cultural Studies, 24, no. 2 (2013): 231-242

    "Euzhan Palcy: Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning—An Interview by Trica Danielle Keaton," Palimpsest (2012): 116-134

    "Racial Profiling: France and the U.S." (part 1 and part 2), Racism Review, 2012, http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2012/06/11/racial-profiling-france-us-p...

    "The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy," Feminist Wire, 2011, https://thefeministwire.com/2011/05/the-defiant-one-euzhan-palcy/

    "The Politics of Race-Blindness: (Anti)blackness and Category Blindness in Contemporary France," Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 7, no.1 (2010): 103-131

    "Le Septième Art in Black: 'Black French Cinema' and the 'Black' Presence in France," American Center France (U.S. Embassy, Paris, France), 2010 [removed]

    "'Black (American) Paris' and the 'Other France': The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity," In Black Europe and the African Diaspora, eds. D. Clark Hine, T. Keaton, and S. Small, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009)

    "Black Paris/Paris Noir," in Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, (Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO Press/Greenwood Publishing, 2008): 187-188

    "Review of Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image by Bennetta Jules-Rosette," Journal of American Studies, 42, no.  2 (2008): 2

     "Arrogant Assimilationism: National Identity Politics and African Origin Muslim Girls in the Other France," Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36, no. 4 (2005): 405-423

    "Un Regard Afro-américain sur une 'Cité' de la Banlieue Parisienne : Les Courtillières," Agone: Sociologie, Histoire & Politique, 29-30 (2003) : 121-134

     "Review of We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World by Manthia Diawara," African Studies Review, 46, no 3 (2003): 175-176

    "Muslim Girls and the 'Other France': An Examination of Identity Construction," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 5, no. 1 (1999): 47-64

     

  • Iyabo E. Kwayana

    Iyabo Kwayana Dartmouth Film and Media Studies

    Commercial Campaigns:

    Until We All Win Campaign, Nike, Camera Operator

     

    Selected Films:

    2017 Practice, China, Director, Co-Cinematographer, Editor

    2018 The Offering,  Director, Co-Cinematographer, Editor

    2018 An Exercise in Transfiguration, Archival, Director, Editor

    2015 Macarrão, narrative, Writer, Director

    2013 Bound, documentary, Co-Cinematographer

    2010 La Receta: (The Recipe) narrative, Director, Writer, Editor

    2010 El Nazareno (Black Christ of Portobello), documentary, Director, Cinematographer

     

    DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

    2017 Practice, Director and Co-cinematographer

    2018 Bridge/Refrain, Cinematographer

    2017 Palenque, Columbia, Co-Cinematographer & Production Team 

    2013 All Men are Flowers, Director of Photography

    2012 Special Moments by Oksana, Director of Photography

    2012 Maria Moderne, Director of Photography

    2011, Los Gigantes, Co-Cinematographer

    2010 Little Creatures, Director of Photography

  • Ernesto Mercado-Montero

    "Indigenous Raiding, Captive-Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles." The Hispanic American Historical Review (In Press).

    "Atlantic," in The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas, Ed. Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, et. al. (London and New York: Routledge), 2019.

    "Jean Baptiste Sans-Souci," in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Franklin W. Knight (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press), 2016.

  • Sam Moodie

    "Triangular Voyages: Locating the Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall's 'To Da-duh, in Memoriam.'" Special Issue Editor Jennifer Williams. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, (Fall 2017).

    "Satire in the Black Americas: Transnational Problematizations in Chappelle's Show and Ity and Fancy Cat." Contemporary African American Satire. Eds. James J. Donahue and Derek Maus. (Summer 2015, University Press of Mississippi).

    "In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Selfhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 12.1 (Spring 2014)

    Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon, New Caribbean Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

    "Through the Caribbean Sea and Other Waters: Loretta Collins Klobah's The Twelve Foot Neon Woman Enters a Woman Poet's World." Small Axe Salon, 4. (September 2012).

    "Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex and Sexuality in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise." Small Axe, 38. (July 2012).

    "Traveling Humour Reimagined: The Comedic Unhinging of the Western Gaze in Caribbean Postcards." Caribbean Quarterly, 58.2-3. (June-September 2012).

    "Synaesthesia and the Refracted Ethnographic Gaze in Nellie Rosario's Song of the Water Saints." Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, 15 (October 2011), 108-120.

    "Slackness and a Mento Aesthetic: Louise Bennett's Trickster Poetics and Jamaican Women's Exploration of Sexuality." Editor Ifeoma Nwankwo. Journal of West Indian Literature, 18.1. (November 2009).

  • Abigail H. Neely

     2021: Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely. Duke University Press.

    2021: "The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Geography in the United States." Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez.The Professional Geographer (2021). DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2021.2000448.

    2021: "Hlonipha and Health: Ancestors, Taboos, and Social Medicine in South Africa." Abigail H. Neely. Africa 91, no. 3 (2021): 473-492. DOI: 10.1017/S0001972021000279.

    2021: "Fundamentally Uncaring: Neoliberalism and the Differential Multi-Scalar Impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S," Patricia J. Lopez and Abigail H. Neely. Social Science and Medicine, 272: 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113707.

    2020: "Entangled Agencies: Rethinking Causality and Health in Political-Ecology," Abigail H. Neely, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. DOI: 2514848620943889

    2020: "Care in the Time of COVID-19," Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez.  Interventions Piece for Antipode.

    2019: "Two Worlds, One Bottle: An Object-Centered Ethnography for Global Health," Abigail H. Neely, Medicine Anthropology Theory, doi.org/10.17157/mat.6.4.642

    2019: "Grieving Daughter, Grieving Witness," Abigail H. Neely. In Kathryn A. Gillespie and Patricia J. Lopez, Grieving Witnesses/Witnessing Grief: The Politics of Grief in the Field. Under contract with the University of California Press.

    2019: "A Qualitative Approach to Examining Health Care Access in Rural South Africa," Abigail H. Neely and Arunsrinivasan Ponshunmugum. Social Science and Medicine, 230: 214-221, doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.025.

    2018: Chris S. Duvall, Bilal Butt, Abigail H. Neely, "The trouble with savanna and other environmental categories, especially in Africa." In Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography. Palgrave Macmillan.

    2017: "Global Health from the Outside: The Promise of Place-Based Research" Abigail H. Neely And Alex M. Nading. Health & Place, DOI:10.1016/j.jhg.2016.12.007.

    2015: "Internal Ecologies and the Limits of Local Biologies: A Political Ecology of Tuberculosis in the Time of AIDS," Abigail H. Neely. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105, no. 4: 791-805.

    2015: "Relationship and Research Methods: Entanglements, Intra-Action, and Diffraction," Abigail H. Neely and Thokozile Nguse. In Gavin Bridge, Tom Perreault, and James McCarthy, eds., Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge: 140-9.

    2014: "Triangulating Health: Toward a Political Ecology of Health," Paul Jackson and Abigail H. Neely. Progress in Human Geography, published online 31 March 2014.

    2010: "'Blame it on the Weeds': Politics, Poverty, and Ecology in the New South Africa," Abigail H. Neely. Journal of Southern African Studies 36, no. 4: 869-887.

  • Julia Rabig

    The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

    The Business of Black Power: Corporate Responsibility, Community Development, and Capitalism in Post-War America, edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig, University of Rochester Press, 2012

    "An Explosion in the 'Laboratory of Democracy,' " Black Power at Work, edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey, Cornell University Press, 2010.

    "What's the Matter with Newark?" Shelterforce, Journal of the National Housing Institute, Fall 2008.

    “Dangerous Librarians: The Survival of Branch Libraries in New York’s Fiscal Crisis” in The Journal of Urban History https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144220965572

  • Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch

    “Family and History Mix during a Fulbright Year: A personal and intellectual Journey in Ghana,” Perspectives Daily, (September 2021) in Perspectives on History, Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association

    “Connecting decolonization in Africa and the US Civil Rights Movement,” World History Project, Bill Gates Foundation, (Summer 2020)

    “Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the Shifting Paradigms of African Historiography,” in The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories, ed. Janell C. Hobson, (Routledge, 2021), 236-244.

    "Women’s International Alliances in an Emergent Ghana." Journal of West African History, 4:1 (2018), 27-56.

    “The Ghana Trades Union Congress and the Politics of International Labor Alliances, 1957–1971.” International Review of Social History, 62:2 (2017), 191-213.

    “Decolonization, Cold War Dynamics and Nation Building in Ghana-Asia Relations: 1957- 1966.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 49:1 (2016), 235-253.

    The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950 (University of Rochester Press, Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Series, 2014).

    “The Politics of Land and Urban Space in Colonial Accra,” History in Africa, 39 (2012): 293-329.