‘Ethnicities and ‘Racial’ Rearticulations’
Nation, race, ethnicity, and religion. As interconnected subject positions, they overlap and shift in meaning along with the cultural discourses in which they are embedded. None of them are things or essences; they are more like relationships (Tabili 2003). And thinking about them as subject positions allows us to think about possibilities for these positions […]
Beauty to Set the World Right: The Politics of Black Aesthetics
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right. That somehow, somewhere eternal and perfect Beauty sits above Truth and Right I can conceive, but here and now and in the world in which I work they are for me unseparated and […]
Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
366 bell hooks From bell hooks, “Eating the other: Desire and resistance.” In Black Looks: Race and Representation, pp. 21–39. Boston: South End Press, 1992. 24 Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance bell hooks This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are […]
At the Ideological Cross Roads: Interrogating (Jamaican) Masculinities in Contemporary Urban Culture through Historical Discourse
Abstract: Working Title: “At the Ideological Cross Roads: Interrogating (Jamaican) Masculinities in Contemporary Urban Culture through Historical Discourse.” By arguing about the centrality of history in the development paradigms of Jamaican gender (identities), contemporarily, this paper looks at the intersection of history and urbanization as a representation of Jamaican popular culture, primarily Dancehall. It examines […]