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... repeating nationalist fictions racial conjuring blackface performance Hemispheric Americas ...

... as the hemispheric fold, it argues that acts of racial conjuring mediate a set of repeating nationalist fictions: mestizaje, creole nationalism, racelessness, and their afterlives. Amid the turn toward the recognition of race, this chapter insists that blackface performance shows the ongoing power of these fictions...

..., Angulo conjures the stereotype of the negrita to expose the endurance of racial scripts that define black women as either domestic servants or hypersexual objects of desire. By analyzing acts of spatial drag and spectacular opacity, the chapter shows how black artists use blackface to stage a political...

... Chapter 4, “The Postcolonial Below: Roots Theater and Black Enjoyment in Jamaica,” analyzes Delcita Coldwater, a popular blackface character who appeared in several plays in a theatrical genre in Jamaica known as “roots theater.” The chapter argues that Delcita is conjured by and for Jamaica’s...

... extreme secrecy and ritual progressions by degrees—point to West African initiation societies as institutional predecessors to African American Freemasonry. African American Freemasonry Prince Hall racial genealogy oratory ...

... African American Freemasonry Prince Hall racial genealogy oratory ...

... African American Freemasonry Prince Hall racial genealogy oratory ...

... Chapter 3 explores how sacred choreographies of Black masculinity and conceptualizations of sovereign territory coded during slavery are conjured and linked in rumba. The way rumba groups showcase the genre’s Abakuá heritage, and the controversary of its simultaneous popular appeal for Black...

... of queer diaspora also conjure forth a queer regional imaginary, one that situates the region as the locus of alternative logics of gender and sexuality that challenge the primacy of metronormative sexual and gender formations. These aesthetic practices produce a queer optic that enables us to grasp...

... ministers. While Black Nova Scotian settlers implemented a radical democracy, religion remained “the foundation of their society, and its most distinctive trait.” African American Freemasonry Prince Hall racial genealogy oratory ...

..., and authority are always gendered and raced. The practice of improvised soloing in taiko is embedded in transnational circuits of gendered and racialized desire. The author addresses how, when, and why taiko players improvise; how improvisation acts out deep values and contradictions; how it is loved...