..., and the three schools of contemporary African art. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 MORE NATIVE THAN TOMORROW GRACE NDIRITU in Conversation with BRENDAN WATTENBERG Journal of Contemporary African Art • 32 • Spring 2013 114 • Nka...

... of a powerful stamping of the foot on ful errantries. In the years im mediately preceding the still d istan t lan d, th e Cahier d'un retour au pays Wor ld War 1[, he was a student in Par is, havin g left natal (Notebook ofa Return to the Native Land), a these mo rn es in Ma rti niq ue's north...

...Janet Berry Hess This article employs ten years of interviews with the African and Native American artist Richard Mayhew to examine Mayhew’s artistic narrative of cultural “spiritual” commitments and ideals, his alignment with community production and performance, and his advocacy of an aesthetic...

... of the Missouri River, was a crossroads for Northern Plains Indians. The place-based project, Cherry River, created by artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American researcher Shane Doyle, was produced by Mountain Time Arts, a collaborative arts and culture organization in southwestern Montana. In an effort...

...Benjamin Tiven This article engages the German architect Ernst May and the complex legacies of his work in colonial Kenya from 1933 to 1953. Tiven examines three structures and parses their political, aesthetic, and biographical dimensions: one proposed, but never built (the Native House...

..., Mirror, Lens , inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s landmark science fiction novel Dhalgren . While Harris’s large-scale Mylar-and-light installations often refer to the Light and Space artists of her native California, to Robert Smithson, to Land Art, and to minimalism and various other areas of art history...

...Benjamin Tiven This article engages the German architect Ernst May and the complex legacies of his work in colonial Kenya from 1933 to 1953. Tiven examines three structures and parses their political, aesthetic, and biographical dimensions: one proposed, but never built (the Native House...

...Anne-Grit Becker In 1952 Cy Twombly (1928–2011) changed the focus of his European grand tour by making a side trip to North Africa. During his three-month stay in Morocco he engaged in activities such as assisting archeological excavations, making tapestries out of native textiles, and producing...

... career, accompanied by a select number of images of his oeuvre from his early days in his native Alexandria to his sojourns in Baghdad and Cairo, and his current practice in New York City, where he has been living since 1974. It also offers a glimpse, in image and in text, of his diverse corpus...

... device in the context of a distinct town planning strategy, conceived after the racist segregation of “white men” from “natives” and used for cooling purposes for the sake of colonizers’ comfort in perceived tropical climates. Comparing Abdel Moneim Mustafa’s designs to those of colonial architects...

.... Diawara’s eventual film chronicles the author’s travels with Glissant on the Queen Mary II across the Atlantic from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York, as well as his stay with Glissant in the philosopher’s native Martinique in the Caribbean. Diawara recounts the experience while...

... on the Pont des Arts ••Recently, nearly sixty works by the Senegalese sculptor Ousmane •Sow, representing his series on Nuba wrestlers, the Masai and HMF Zulu warriors, the Fulani nomads, and America's Natives at grips I wk with General Custer's 7th Cavalry - a stunning ensemble...

... interi- have a semiscientific quality, showing the white man ors (salons, bedrooms, and the like), but oddly, he living, drinking, and eating with the natives. But as photographs himself as the center of the action in such the series seems to evoke the ethnographic pho- every room. The purpose...

... of the nativistic reflex. In its mild form, nativism appears as an ideology glorifying differences and diversity and fighting to safeguard customs and identities perceived as threatened. According to nativistic logic, identi- ties and political struggles are founded on the basis of a distinction between those who...

...- there, but when he bought his car, he had less need thropic work involved him extensively with what of grazing, and the Allens built a house on the plot, were at the time termed “native affairs.” He was a cottage in picture-­book English style, to which well informed on the debates about race then cur...

... by a colonial context. Washington would see it for the first time. The image presents has little to say of the African natives—whom he a smooth expanse of water stretching back to an deems the “heathen inhabitants” of Africa—as he inviting shore. Clusters of neat houses rise up a hill imagines a new...

... documents, residential documents, and the imposition of penalties for the non-possession of them. 21 Parallel to this restriction of mobility, legislation curtailed rights to own and access land for non-white citizens. The Native Land Act of 1913, passed three years after the Union of South Africa s...

... Miller Nka • 45 nations.19 Converging with black nationalist sepa- ones, and the native is alienated from his past. In the ratist discourses, the rise of Pan-Africanist thought second phase, the native recognizes his alienation attempted to cultivate political and cultural ties be- and attempts...

... or peace and zigzag patterns, captioned with . . . which the men bore without the so sweet as to be purchased at the the politically correct quote: In all of least murmur . . . Tench Tilghman, prices of chains and slavery? The de- your intercourse with the natives, treat 27 December 1776. Deconstructing...

... to /IlY Native expa nsion/ do mination, which for the mo st part Landi, published in 1939. Whe ther or not that obliterated the original indi gen ou s inhabit ants. claim is accurate, it is beyond dispute that it was Co nseque ntly, small Ca ribbea n islands such as th rough Cesaire's arti culation...