... of "gendered visions" as it investi• CONTEMPORARY gates the non-aesthetic motiva• AFRICANA WOMEN...

... Collection Project Space in New York. He holds a BA in English and Africana studies from Haverford College and BW: But there are artists in Africa who are doing the kinds an MA in Africana studies from New York University. He of thing Jean Pigozzi...

... as their new homes, and in the process, contributed to expanding the narrative to modern art history. Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art...

... nature of surrealism as a movement, this special issue makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the importance of the rich and complex legacy of the Egyptian surrealists. Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director...

... speaks, as it were, to what Édouard Glissant would come to call the right to opacity, which, in the fi­ nal analysis, is perhaps the colonial subject s most capable defense in the face of empire.25 Gerard Aching is a professor of Africana and Romance studies at Cornell University. Notes 1 André Breton...

..., are compelled to take their own measure. Richard Hoggart, Hall became one of the enduring voices of the cultural studies project. In 1969 Hall Grant Farred is a professor of Africana Studies at succeeded Hoggart, the first director of the Centre Cornell University...

... in, say, Kind of Blue or Grant Farred is a professor of Africana Studies at Sketches of Spain, or take your pick from that vast Cornell University. treasure trove that is Miles’s music, are audible in an entirely different, entirely unexpected medium. Notes...

... Hassan is an Assistant Professor of African Art at the techniques, tools or colors despite variant content; or those artists who Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He...

... by, and position ourselves within the narratives of the past.”2 The specifics of how and why this is the case are the subject of this special issue. Noliwe Rooks is the director of graduate studies and an associate professor in Africana studies at Cornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she...

... (London), Nka-169 ing the unknown—and the unwilling. Fragonard's illicit love, one of desire, pleted a master's degree in Africana In Shonibare's...

... sented as one of the worst atrocities in the history Riché Richardson is an Associate Professor of African of the nation and the South as a region. But American literature at Cornell’s Africana...

... them. More important, however, Ceddo Awam Amkpa is associate professor of drama and portrays a counterfactual historical outcome to director of Africana studies at New York University the nineteenth-­century Wolof civil war. Whereas and author of Theater and Postcolonial Desires...

... and Black Western criteria and carrying Black Arts and Aesthetics was demoralizing. (But we must never Black Aesthetics values unabashedly into the most forget the institutional support that James Turner privileged corners of the world’s cultural establish- and Africana Studies at Cornell gave Fuller...

... in Africana the colonial subject’s “refusal to satisfy the colonizer’s narrative studies from Cornell University in 2011. demand” (“Sly Civility,” in The Location of Culture [New York: Routledge, 1994], 132 – 44...

..., from the way serves a similar transformative role in the Art|Architecture|Design Depart- vendors carry items for sale on their for objects. The agents in the market, ment and the Africana Studies program bodies through the streets, to the whether vendors, artists, importers at Lehigh University...

... Americans. Why was the term lynching not applied to the savage Robert L. Harris, Jr. is Professor of African American beating and murder of Matthew Shepard? Was that History, Africana Studies and Research Center, and Vice not a lynching? It seems that that term is applied...

... massacre of Native Eric Kofi Acree, is the Librarian of John Henrik Americans at Wounded Knee, the World War II Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University internment of Japanese Americans, and the Leo Frank lynching in Georgia in 1913. Katz, J. D., California...

... at the Independence celebrations. Elizabeth Harney is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Africana The curator arranged these works alongside pro- and anti- Studies Program at New York University. Lumumba paraphernalia of the period to provide a clearer picture of the context...