... haunting black Atlantic black ghosting Beloved black resurrection liminal corporeality collective death collective memory ...

... Chapter 4 concerns the coalescence of literary and photographic ghosting. It focuses on iterations of ethereal haunting in literature, imbued with a hyper-dependence on black women’s “resurrecting” qualities. Mystics, preachers, and god figures maintain the black diasporic space between...

... In early capitalism, power harnessed the excess or surplus of the real to engender, transgress, and possess, to allow life and mete out death. Yet nocturnal power—as killing power, arising from a pact with the dead—was antagonized by the ghostly figure of the Black slave as both unfinished...

.... In view of John Akomfrah’s notion of “black necrophilia,” which unsettles the psychoanalytic distinction between mourning and melancholia so as to address the ghosts of colonial history, the analysis closely engages Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, which arose from his reading of allegory...

... This chapter explores three central values within black religion and culture: hospitality, healing practices, and ghosts/spirit stories. It looks at each topic individually and tells of experiences Rosemarie, her family members, and movement colleagues have had regarding each one. Her...

... stigma high school fights A short story about a young black woman named Julia. She is invited to her first integrated dance, sponsored by the YWCA in Chicago, where she dances alternately with a white soldier and a black soldier all night. The story gives insight into the protagonist’s curiosity...

...South This chapter explores three central values within black religion and culture: hospitality, healing practices, and ghosts/spirit stories. It looks at each topic individually and tells of experiences Rosemarie, her family members, and movement colleagues have had regarding each one. Her...

... Collective oeuvre. In view of John Akomfrah’s notion of “black necrophilia,” which unsettles the psychoanalytic distinction between mourning and melancholia so as to address the ghosts of colonial history, the analysis closely engages Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, which arose from his reading...

... A series of untimely deaths shake Zimbabwe’s music community, and the Blacks Unlimited. Particularly difficult for Mapfumo is the loss of his bass player and close friend Charles Makokowa. The chapter details a somewhat improvised 1995 U.S. tour, in which Mapfumo performs without guitars...

.... The label also released a compilation album—titled Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation of the Norm in the United Kingdom—that captured the zeitgeist. David Byrne and Brian Eno contributed to the mutant moment with the release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Arthur Russell joined in with 24 → 24 Music...

.... The label also released a compilation album—titled Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation of the Norm in the United Kingdom—that captured the zeitgeist. David Byrne and Brian Eno contributed to the mutant moment with the release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Arthur Russell joined in with 24 → 24 Music...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

... of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify, are cited in Stephen...

...: University Press of Kansas, 1995), 15–45; and Richard B. Sheridan, “From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854–1865,” Kansas History 12 (1989): 28–47. Estimates of fugitive migration via the midwestern “train,” now hard to verify...