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Research paper thumbnail of There's a Disco Ball Between Us

Research paper thumbnail of ‘In the life’ in diaspora: Autonomy/desire/community

Research paper thumbnail of Blackness, sexuality, and transnational desire: Initial notes toward a new research agenda

Page 97. 4 Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire Initial Notes toward a New Research Age... more Page 97. 4 Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire Initial Notes toward a New Research Agenda JAFARI S. ALLEN The space economy of capitalism that exploits natural resources of poorer nations to maintain rich ones ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience

Transforming Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Afterword: “Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”

Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal

Research paper thumbnail of After The Love

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Research paper thumbnail of One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of A Picture’s Worth: Toward Theorizing a Black/Queer Gaze in the Internet “Pornutopia”

Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Black/Queer Rhizomatics

Research paper thumbnail of The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties

Current Anthropology, 2016

In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted correction... more In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of " Third World " peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation ; and what George Marcus has recently termed a " crisis of reception, " this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itself)— foregrounding work that lends new insights into anthropological theory, method, and pedagogy. The intention here is not to merely redeem the pioneering insights of African diaspora anthropologists as unsung forerunners of contemporary anthropological theories (though this is a worthwhile endeavor in itself) but rather to illuminate continued and prospective contributions of this mode of knowledge production.

Research paper thumbnail of A Convers Ation " o verflowing with Me M ory" on omise'eke natasha t insley's " w ater , s houlders, i nto the Black Pacific

Glq J Lesbian Gay Stud, 2012

This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise&a... more This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a

Research paper thumbnail of Studying sex, sexualities and health: Ethnographic and mixed-methods approaches

Research paper thumbnail of Cuba: Interpreting a Half Century of Revolution and Resistance, Part 1 || Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba

Research paper thumbnail of For “the Children” Dancing the Beloved Community

Research paper thumbnail of Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba

Latin American Perspectives, 2009

What does the promise of 1959—¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)—mean to blacks in the United States... more What does the promise of 1959—¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)—mean to blacks in the United States, and what are the possible futures for the continuation and expansion of revolution? As commentary by black individuals who visited or took refuge in Revolutionary Cuba and my own ethnographic work on the island, roughly from 1998 to 2003, show, the vision of Cuba has become more salient and more complex as the position of blacks in the United States becomes more fraught with contradictions. As must any contemporary 50-year-old, the Cuban Revolution must now reconcile intention and effect and chart its future course in a world very different from the one it was born into.

Research paper thumbnail of Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of 47 'In the Life'In Diaspora

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Counterpoints: Black Masculinities, Sexuality, and Self-Making In Contemporary Cuba

Research paper thumbnail of ¡ Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making In Cuba

... Dichoso, Ana Maurine Lara, and Sharon Bridgforth. Thanks also to Davarian Baldwin, Ro-samond ... more ... Dichoso, Ana Maurine Lara, and Sharon Bridgforth. Thanks also to Davarian Baldwin, Ro-samond King, Michele Brown, and Bayo Holsey, who witnessed the seeds of this project. Marc Perry, whose account of this same period ...

Research paper thumbnail of Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom?

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of There's a Disco Ball Between Us

Research paper thumbnail of ‘In the life’ in diaspora: Autonomy/desire/community

Research paper thumbnail of Blackness, sexuality, and transnational desire: Initial notes toward a new research agenda

Page 97. 4 Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire Initial Notes toward a New Research Age... more Page 97. 4 Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire Initial Notes toward a New Research Agenda JAFARI S. ALLEN The space economy of capitalism that exploits natural resources of poorer nations to maintain rich ones ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience

Transforming Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Afterword: “Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”

Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal

Research paper thumbnail of After The Love

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Research paper thumbnail of One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of A Picture’s Worth: Toward Theorizing a Black/Queer Gaze in the Internet “Pornutopia”

Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Black/Queer Rhizomatics

Research paper thumbnail of The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties

Current Anthropology, 2016

In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted correction... more In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of " Third World " peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation ; and what George Marcus has recently termed a " crisis of reception, " this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itself)— foregrounding work that lends new insights into anthropological theory, method, and pedagogy. The intention here is not to merely redeem the pioneering insights of African diaspora anthropologists as unsung forerunners of contemporary anthropological theories (though this is a worthwhile endeavor in itself) but rather to illuminate continued and prospective contributions of this mode of knowledge production.

Research paper thumbnail of A Convers Ation " o verflowing with Me M ory" on omise'eke natasha t insley's " w ater , s houlders, i nto the Black Pacific

Glq J Lesbian Gay Stud, 2012

This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise&a... more This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a

Research paper thumbnail of Studying sex, sexualities and health: Ethnographic and mixed-methods approaches

Research paper thumbnail of Cuba: Interpreting a Half Century of Revolution and Resistance, Part 1 || Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba

Research paper thumbnail of For “the Children” Dancing the Beloved Community

Research paper thumbnail of Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba

Latin American Perspectives, 2009

What does the promise of 1959—¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)—mean to blacks in the United States... more What does the promise of 1959—¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)—mean to blacks in the United States, and what are the possible futures for the continuation and expansion of revolution? As commentary by black individuals who visited or took refuge in Revolutionary Cuba and my own ethnographic work on the island, roughly from 1998 to 2003, show, the vision of Cuba has become more salient and more complex as the position of blacks in the United States becomes more fraught with contradictions. As must any contemporary 50-year-old, the Cuban Revolution must now reconcile intention and effect and chart its future course in a world very different from the one it was born into.

Research paper thumbnail of Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of 47 'In the Life'In Diaspora

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Counterpoints: Black Masculinities, Sexuality, and Self-Making In Contemporary Cuba

Research paper thumbnail of ¡ Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making In Cuba

... Dichoso, Ana Maurine Lara, and Sharon Bridgforth. Thanks also to Davarian Baldwin, Ro-samond ... more ... Dichoso, Ana Maurine Lara, and Sharon Bridgforth. Thanks also to Davarian Baldwin, Ro-samond King, Michele Brown, and Bayo Holsey, who witnessed the seeds of this project. Marc Perry, whose account of this same period ...

Research paper thumbnail of Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom?

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2015

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