..., modern, and unmarked. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 PLOTTING DISTINCTION AND EXCLUSION Can There Be a Subaltern Middle Class? Notes on African American and Dalit...

... Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 PHOTO ESSAYS Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May I994 Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders and Democracy The Sun shall never set on so glorious a h um...

....” Journal of Modern African Studies 20 ( 3 ): 431 -450. Baudrillard , Jean . 1975 . The Mirror of Production . Trans. M. Poster. St. Louis: Telos Press. Baudrillard , Jean . 1983 . Simulacra and Simulations . Trans. P. Foss et al. New York: Semiotext(e). Bennett , Tony . 1988...

...Michael Hanchard Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Afro-Modernity: Temporality, Politics, and the African Diaspora Michael Hanchard P eople of African descent have...

...Cheryl A. Wall © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Cheryl A. Wall teaches African American literature in the English department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her latest book is Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (2005...

... newspaper he edited in South Africa, where he spent twenty-one years. This article asks what it means to reinstate this South African reader in Gandhi's seminal text. What implications would this diasporic reader have for Gandhi's thinking and ideas of Indian nationalism more generally? What might this...

...Deborah Posel Duke University Press 2008 History as Confession: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Deborah Posel In the iconic history of human suffering...

... and tired refrain, that there is a Western con- spiracy. In both cases, the only way to go beyond Mbembe’s text would be to write a treatise on “African decomposition” that would match, for exam- ple, the philosophical reflection of Cioran on the very concept of decom- position, and thus...

...Elsa Barkley Brown Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery...

...Steven Gregory Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Race, Identity and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals Manthia Diawara The Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) convened...

...: University of Minnesota Press, 234 -256. Wood , Joe . 1992. “Malcolm X and the New Blackness.” In Joe Wood, ed., Malcolm X: In Our Own Image. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1 -17. X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading...

... and has worked with battered sub-Saharan immigrant women in Paris. On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman’s Claim to Locality Fatu Kande Senghor Fatu Kande Senghor is a writer and photographer who is currently Program Specialist for the Cultural Program at the Goree...

...Achille Mbembe © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book is On the Postcolony (2001). African Modes of...

...Harry Garuba © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Harry Garuba teaches at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. His recent publications include “Negotiating the(Post)Colonial Impasse: Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel and Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers...

... is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States. “Come Up to the Kool Taste”: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of...

...Jesse Weaver Shipley © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Saidou Mohamed N'Daou teaches history at Chicago State University. Jesse Weaver Shipley is an assistant professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Bard College. His recent research and publications are...

... for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg. She is coeditor of Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia (1996), Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998), and Senses of Culture: South African...

...). Bernabé, Jean, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant. 1989 . Eloge de la créolité . Paris: Gallimard. Mafeje, Archie. 2000 . Africanity: An ontological combat. CODESRIA Bulletin , no. 1 : 66 -71. Nkrumah, Kwame. 1964 . Consciencism:Philosophy and ideology for decolonization and...

...Josef Sorett This essay tracks the evolving tensions between culture and politics in African American life to offer an account of how an idea of “church” shapes contemporary black literature and social activism. Although generally understood as a dramatic reimagining of the black past and as a...