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..., and, finally, confusions around which the expression of liberal subjecthood, or ethnic and national identity, might emerge. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 kinship weddings South Africa ritual African women References Ahmed Sara . 2004 . The Cultural Politics of Emotion...

... intersections of migration, work, and desire experienced by African/Haitian American women who came from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Richmond, California, to work in Kaiser's shipyards during World War II. Narrating erotic encounters between black female shipbuilders, the piece meditates on the changing...

... 223 Green, Erica L., and Annie Waldman. 2018. I Feel Invisible : Natives Languishing in Schools. New York Times, December 28. www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/us/native - american- education.html. Jordan, June. 2005. Poem for South African Women. In Directed Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan...

...- tion where Black gay men present themselves to be seen by Black straight men as women. For now, suffice it to say that across South Africa older ways of doing things among Black South Africans are usually, but not always, cast in the register of heterosexist African traditionalisms, which are overtly...

... Migraine-­George is a professor of romance languages and literatures and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of African Women and Representation: From Performance to Politics (2008), From Francophonie to World Literature in French: Ethics, Poetics...

... surface. This chapter is also where African women's agentive maneuvers emerge most clearly. In a particularly adroit reading of sartorial practices, Tallie renders a scene of a male servant donning a “pink frock” that he borrowed from his sister. While the servant complies with settler norms by wearing...

... between gazing at pictures of naked African women in National Geographic and the dawning of lesbian con- sciousness. In this phantasmatic representation of a crucial moment in her child- hood development, Bishop constructs what Teresa de Lauretis terms a “primal scene” of her coming-into-being...

... - american- education.html. Jordan, June. 2005. Poem for South African Women. In Directed Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, 278 79. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. Lewis, Rachel. 2017. Suicide Rate for Teen Girls Hits Forty Year High. Time, August 4. time.com/4887282/teen- suicide...

... in diasporic African women’s sexuality is motivated by her own identity as an “Afro-­Surinamese anthropologist who loves women” (4), enabling her to return to Suriname not so much as a field site but as a homeland. Asked what she did in the field, Wekker tells us, she is able...

... in South Africa — one that might attend to, for example, the place of gender in natalist discourse, homonationalism and racism in postapartheid South Africa, and the politics of using black South African women as case studies for Eurocentric feminist political models. Citing Meg...

... the Middle Passage, as colonial chronicles, oral tradition, and anthropological studies tell us, captive African women created erotic bonds with other women in the sex-segregated holds, and captive African men created bonds with other men. In so doing, they resisted...

... Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1983). For more recent discussions of how these issues affect South African women see Susan Bazilli, ed., Putting Women on the Agenda (Johan- nesburg: Ravan, 1991). Mahmood Mamdani...

... in Western Queer Theory.” In Queer African Reader , edited by Ekine Sokari Abbas Hakima , 173 – 85 . Dakar, Senegal : Pambazuka . Cock Jacklyn . 2003 . “Engendering Gay and Lesbian Rights: The Equality Clause in the South African Constitution.” Women's Studies International Forum...

... to note how nonwhite queer South Africans are forging hybrid sexual identities to navi- gate both the official systems of rights and cultural mores outside those systems. For example, women identifying as lesbian sangomas (healers) in the townships of Johan- nesburg...

.... “The principle of mass produc- tion at last applied to biology,” he writes, produces “standard men and women, in uniform batches.”39 Race science had long deemed racialized bodies, particularly those of African descent, as closer to their animal natures: physically superior...

... body (Greenblatt 1995 ). Landis also offers his own engagement with the racist debates distinguishing male and female bodies, which claimed that racialized bodies undermine said distinctions and should therefore be read as deviant. Such racist projects deemed African women overly masculine based...

... of “other” bodies—African women who have undergone genital surgery, Bonaparte’s Corsican servant who may also have been her illegitimate uncle, the blackened body of her dead mother—to Bonaparte’s self-construction and to her extensive theorization of women’s capacity for clitoral pleasure in Female...

... (1970–1980) .” Laws 5 , no. 12 : 1 – 14 . Bourdieu Pierre . 1997 . Outline of a Theory of Practice . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Cock Jacklyn . 2003 . “ Engendering Gay and Lesbian Rights: The Equality Clause in the South African Constitution .” Women’s Studies...

... Grenada I saw the root of my mother’s powers walking through the streets. I thought, this is the country of my foremothers, my forebearing moth- ers, those Black island women who defined themselves by what they did” (Lorde 1982: 9). The Trinidadian inability to “walk like African peoples...

... Neo S. 2018 . “ Homing with My Mother/How Women in My Family Married Women .” Meridians 17 , no. 2 : 401 – 14 . Musila Grace A. 2019 . “ Against Collaboration: Or the Native Who Wanders Off .” Journal of African Cultural Studies 31 , no. 3 : 286 – 93 . Nkabinde Nkunzi...