... and as a break from the “Black Church,” specifically, black literature and protest politics in the present moment are not as far removed from the traditions of Afro-Protestantism as they are thought to be. Recognizing the degree to which racial and religious discourses are mutually constitutive, this essay calls...

... and directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano. San Francisco: California Newsreel. Videocassette. Afro-Pessimism’s Many Guises Bennetta Jules-Rosette A chille Mbembe’s brilliant exercise in Afro-pessimism, “African Modes of A Self...

...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...

..., Austin, March 7–9, 1994. Braga , Julio . 1992. “Candomblé: Força e Resistência.” Afro-Asia 15 : 13 -17. Brown , Diana De G. , and Mario Bick. 1987 . “Religion, Class and Context: Continuities and Discontinuities in Brazilian Umbanda.” American Ethnologist 14 ( 1 ): 73 -93...

... increasingly like American popular music (a term which, in large measure, is just a eu- phemism for Afro-American popular musics). This complex traffic in sounds, money and media is rooted in the nature of revitalization through appropriation. Musical appropriation sings a double line with one...

... that Marxism and nationalism, as practiced in Africa throughout the twentieth century, gave rise to two narratives on African identity: nativism and Afro-radicalism. I contend that the objective of these two discourses was not only to pronounce once and for all the “truth” on the issue of what Africa...

.... References Armstrong Piers . 2012 . “ Afro-Latin Carnival and the Carnivalesque in the African American Novel .” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 7 , no. 3 : 295 – 320 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2012.723909 . Bakhtin Mikhail . 1968 . Rabelais and His World...

... is ur -example of the Afro-abject. The head-shaking, finger-wagging commentaries on offer in mainstream North Atlantic media consistently conjure Haiti in a disparaging language and imagery of Afro-alterity, making Haiti a veritable cipher for global articulations of human versus other(ed) being...

...Alexander G. Weheliye © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Alexander G. Weheliye is assistant professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005), from which this essay is taken...

... the field of Afro-Am (as it used to be called), and to gain job security for scholars within the academic establishment. Afro-Am scholars moved from toeholds in the university to firmly entrenched positions. In a related and even more dramatic...

..., the demographic fact that Jamaica, the largest West Indian island, has an over- whelmingly Afro-Caribbean population only confirmed my conviction regarding the culture of the Caribbean at large. Having heard a great deal about Carnival in Trinidad in the Eastern Caribbean, a five-hour air journey away, I decided...

... for their comments, and to Nataki H Goodall for her critical eye and unflagging support. The writing of this essay was facilitated by a research leave from the University of Michigan and research fellowships at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University...

... lips, and, since at least the 1960s, his occasional mock Afro-Caribbean accent. The growing resonance of voices claiming that Black Pete is a racist caricature inherited from colonial times has left mainstream cultural producers in a quandary, as the latter see themselves as having to cater...

... in Chatsworth, but it is less politicized and lethal than in the African taxi ranks and is often related to personal rivalries between taxi owners. In a bid to attract the burgeoning market of style-conscious teenagers in Chatsworth — keen consumers of white, Afro-American, and the globally...

.... Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, 1430 Massachusetts Ave., 4th floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Research Interests: African philosophy; Afro-American philosophy; post-colonial literatures; African American literary history and theory; philosophy of culture; philosophy...

... as contempt for their exotic manifestations abroad. Picasso’s inspirations were equally African masks and industrial detritus. And the Beatles’ parodies of English music hall fare and the “Marseillaise” would not have been ventured or understood if they had not also explored Afro-American, Indian...

... Journal and Guide , Atlanta Daily World , the Baltimore Afro-American , and Chicago Defender reported on active protest in the Indian colony and covered the situation of the untouchables. The tenacity to look beyond the bargained power of mediation between English and Indian elites and to report...

... on quite different musical categories. Their popularity was founded pre- cisely on the fact that they were copying Afro-American music with all its characteristic features, including the performance style of black musi- 16. lbid., 10...

..., politics, and the afterlives of Afro-Protestantism. He explores the “new black literary movement” under way, one that affirms black lives by exploring how violence has made them not matter. Sorett shows how the “Black Arts” have relentlessly tried to “lift the veil on the violently real constraints imposed...

... or, as the best achievements and thoughts of a people. Furthermore, Black intellectuals, be they apostles of Afro- centricity, Black Conservatism, Islam or Liberation Theology, tend to discredit and categorize as pathological certain cultural practices that challenge their ideal of Blackness. I shall...