‘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 […]
Homi Bhabha, Hybridity and Identity, or Derrida Versus Lacan.
The words “Orient” and “Occident” originate simply in the Latin words for sun rising (oriens) and sun setting (occidens). In his path-breaking work, Orientalism (1978), Edward Said snows how a massive and ancient discursive regime took these essentially mobile positions and fixed them in relation to an imaginary centre in Europe. The Orient” became an […]
‘It’s About the Way I’m Treated’: Afro- Latina Black Identity Development in the Third Space.
Abstract Through an ethnographic study of an afterschool program serving girls of color in the New York City metro area, this study examines how girls who are ethically Latina and racially Black embrace and articulate AfroLatinx identity. It asks, what are the contexts and institutional processes that facilitate the development of a Black identity among […]
“Latinidad Is Cancelled”: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Ben & Jerry’s released a widely lauded statement—“We Must Dismantle White Supremacy: Silence Is NOT an Option”— avowing their commitment to anti-racism.1 In it, the ice cream company categorically reaffirmed support for Black Lives Matter; named the following victims of racial violence: “Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, […]
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 […]
Beyond the Streets – SAATCHI Gallery
An exploration into the worlds of graffiti, street art, hip hop and punk rock and the artists who have preserved its history. The exhibition consists of work from over 100 artists all housed by the entirety of the Saatchi gallery stretching across 3 floors and 13 rooms – Exploring street art from across the globe. […]
African Fashion V&A
The African Fashion exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London presents contemporary African creative minds and the vitality and impressiveness of Africa towards global fashion. Through politics and tradition, it tells the story of African fashion from the 1950s through 1990s to the current times, and the impacts of it as a tool […]
Controlling Beauty Ideals: Caribbean Women, Thick Bodies, and White Supremacist Discourse
Abstract: This article explores the ways in which anti-black-woman body politics manifest themselves in the lives of Caribbean women living in the United States. Specifically, using the personal narratives of black Caribbean immigrant women, I examine these women’s encounters with ideologies that marginalize them based on their bodies and preserve contemporary anti-black-woman ideologies in “post-racial” […]
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 […]