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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and connect Black identities across space and time. The majority of the essay focuses on close readings of two contemporary novels on diasporic pasts, presents, and futures, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (2018), to contrast “vertical” and “horizontal” epistemologies...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jenny Sharpe Abstract This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
...? The sense shared by Hall that what is at stake here is not identity but rather the ways in which it might be thought or represented seems to find confirmation in the word innocence , which suggests that any theory of blackness must begin by innocenting itself of any belief that it could ever essentially...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 91–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
... is also a delimitation of the Black's being. 10 As such, the question "How does it feel to be a problem?" reveals that the struc- ture of the Black's identity is presumed to proceed according to the equation "Black" = "problem" so that White identity and White...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90.
Published: 01 December 2003
... has white com- passion often been represented, by blacks, as a provocation that binds as well as blinds? And why did Kramer and Poitier's search for the truth of black male suffering, black male identity, end up revealing the different truths that blacks and whites have to live by in America...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 275–286.
Published: 01 June 2014
...” or the “homogenized gay clone.” McGlotten provides a screenshot of his own Grindr profi le, where he lists his race as “mixed,” arguably sidestepping his offscreen black identity. For him, these experiences of prejudice and self- doubt defi nitively dis- prove the notion that technology takes us beyond concerns...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of race in late eighteenth-century Germany, historians of IOW slavery confront an idea of blackness that precedes race—in other words, a nonracial blackness translated across time and space. 27 The “Western cultural construction of racial identity associated with ‘blackness’ is not found in Iranian...
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
... forms of inequality are super- imposed and where social hardship and personal difficulties accu- mulate, the mechanisms of aggregation and segregation that deter- mine their constitution and govern the nnarginalization of their res- idents are not the same. Unlike the black American ghetto...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 353–372.
Published: 01 December 2019
... with it, by releasing blackness in the raw . 21. Marriott, “Perfect Beauty of Black Death.” 22. I am using the term (in)existence as a nod to Badiou’s inexistent , since the inexistent has such a low intensity between identities that this relation is rendered obsolete. It is not clear whether...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 95–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... it performs a kind of natality. If described as a matrix, then (anti)blackness is symbolically a form of natality, a gen- erative function rather than an identity. If (anti)blackness is a matrix, then the normative conception of “the human” and the entire set of arrangements Sweet Home rep- resents...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the Frames series, he does not settle for a "head-on" depiction of black subjectivity. Rather, he draws attention to the photographic "take" as itself a kind of violence, an epistemological, political, and cultural framing, which produces race and imagines identity...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to display their solidarity, they have dressed almost identically in dark overcoats, nylon stockings, and black shoes, and have assumed identical pos- tures, with heads bowed, ankles crossed, and arms straight down; even their hairstyles are similar. If the caption didn’t tell us...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of several literary awards including The Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America and The Loft/McKnight Award for Best Prose in the State of Minnesota. His publications have appeared in Social Justice, Social Identities, Paris Transcontinental...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 553–572.
Published: 01 December 2017
... resentment from an antiblack resentment that manifests through antiurban attitudes. However, focusing on a white-black framework obscures the complexity of racial positioning that shapes her interviewees’ attitudes, such as the triangulation of white rural voters vis-à-vis both the Native Americans whose...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in fact foreclosed liberatory avenues. We have come to “ fixing and stabilizing the identity of woman [and, too, Black, trans, queer] even more firmly than before ,” as Riki Wilchins writes in Read My Lips (1997). What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the engine of our politics followed Wilchins...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 215–248.
Published: 01 December 2010
... not allow itself to be dialecticized, any more than He- gel’s fantasy of a black culture mired in fetishism and anthropo- phagy. The unforeseeable denotes a fi rst moment of identity that is not a (regulative) Idea or a (regulative) ideal. Like the irreduc- ible différance of the other, black...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 53–62.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the black and the white. "Neither black nor white" thus indicates not only the articulation of multiracial (or mixed race) identity claims in the post-civil rights era,' but also the contemporary reformulations of critique and political mobilization among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Yet, if Mbembe claims that “to assert himself as a human being, the colonizer must act out his identity by relegating the native to the status of animality,” then we have much to learn about what this white identity looks like in its relationship to Black and animal animalization, especially...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 199–243.
Published: 01 June 2023
... mapping of the globe through visible categories that make coherent the formulation of the “racial slave” and the reduced capacities of “racial blackness,” creating a double register to the natural necessity also occupied by gender. Underlying this doubling of identity categories in the racial slave...
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and Utopia (Black Dog Publishing, 1997), Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art (Black Dog Publishing, London 1998), and Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art (Black Dog Publishing, London 1999). He also writes regularly...