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... Negro” identity and singles out for particular concern the construction of Black womanhood circa 1921 atop a racialized and gendered foundation of “Egyptian” and “Ethiopian/Nubian” as contested discursive formations. Considering the manifold genealogies of Fuller’s sculpture and its politics...

... history,” a form of visual genealogy Akomfrah calls “an essay” that is suited to a landscape in which fixed temporal or spatial narratives are no longer adequate. Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019128 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916928 © 2019 by Nka Publications JOHN AKOMFRAH...

... in this alter- we might yet learn from the African diaspora by native genealogy would be the victory parade of the beginning to account for this fundamental form of Harlem Hellfighters in 1919 on their return home communication.3 from the Allied front. W. E. B. Du Bois famously...

... are the “counter- He recalls wandering through the different Parisian narratives . . . critical genealogies and archives” neighborhoods, taking photographs, watching produced by black artists and intellectuals.5 I see people, and of course seeing art. On one particular these responses as having a dual...

... is important. Disruption upends, causes disarray, but interruption inserts something in its place. Marshall s collages visualize create a framework for understanding how fields like architecture (and art history) have rested on the production of genealogies of form, of influence, of change while also...

... as no other art museum had ever experienced. It was here that modern art, despite its European genealogy, eventually settled, though it took twenty years to do so in the States. Architecture was better qualified to win the battle, if only because there existed only one candidate to represent the modern...

... around in its historical traces until a new possibil- ity of mapping comes into focus as the necessary precondition for thinking about the past and the present at all. It is in a sense a critical genealogy of the global, the goal of which is not just to cor- rect the balance between center and periphery...

...• Ellen Gallagher's mysterious black paintings are always a pleas• ful historical or political genealogy, and no critical thrust. My ure to behold, but their presence within this exhibition was a bit intention here is not to paint an entirely bleak picture. While of an enigma...

... Architecture Genealogy, 2014. Series of collages, analogue photography, vintage documents. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna verb ‘to pair’ nestles within ‘repair played with the push and pull of po- fromalsatesthecommodityandlandfillstersoflationshipterialcultureWest,versusuniversallines...

... from the museum complex, offering an case an exhibitionary mode divergent ­popular masquerade practices show- tory and socially engaged art;and that saged now common forms of participa - porary performance and, infact, pre- an alternative genealogy for contem- that the essentially hybrid art...

... Press Ferguson Nka 137 evocations. In the history and her- meneutic that Bourland produces, the reader is presented with not only the visual genealogies of Fani-Kayode s work, but also the musical, dance, and social cultures that shaped his art as well. As a result, Bourland il- lustrates how Fani...

... of cannibalism in the '60s was fundamentally to tracing the genealogy of the Question of metaphors applied to different and frequent• interdisciplinary—the product of an unedit- Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art ed coincidence in Brazil's cultural history...

... genealogies and the climatic, social, and political parameters of the equatorial state. Interestingly, today these rental units are still at full occupancy and house...

... genealogies and the climatic, social, and political parameters of the equatorial state. Interestingly, today these rental units are still at full occupancy and house...

..." that turns the latter into a transcendent catego• and in popular perceptions of Africa, such classifica• ry.2 Such approach of course has a long genealogy in tions do not reflect ground realities. Geographic bor• contemporary western political thought—all Muslims, ders do...

... that builds on our rich whole thing as a performance has the right to be a discussions of a whole set of alternative coordinates kind of public, and that I might even have a respon- and genealogies that we might construct in think- sibility different from the way maybe a lot of other ing about black...

... metaphoric and practical, Blackalist Britishnarrative of isBritain . around the concepts of genealogy, soci...

... forms of com- and-­true genealogies of conceptual, performative, munitarian identity are increasingly frayed and to and political art. Indeed, the reframing of such gene- model possibilities for the development of new forms alogies is arguably more important than ever in light of black art...

... sciences, and paternalism, see Ibram Rogers’s “The Intellectual Genealogy of Paternalism: Linking Theoretical Rationalizations...