... research within DC, this study contends that such diasporic experts have come to play a specialized role for US empire. Specifically, they serve as “multiplicitous diplomats” who use their connections to the region to navigate and translate the interests of competing political elites in Washington...

...: Cultural citizenship in San Jose,California. In Latino cultural citizenship , edited by William Flores and Rina Benmayor. Boston: Beacon. Siu, Lok. 1994 . In search of roots: Cultural identity and the Chinese diaspora . Unpublished paper. ____. 2000 . At the intersection of nations: Diasporic...

... of U.S. imperialist aggression and global hegemony bears closer scrutiny, as it reveals a great deal about the complex interrelation of multiple national- isms and diasporic formations in the context of globalization...

... disciplinary field that understands its own organizing category as strategically historical, contextual, and critical. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 On (Our) American Ground Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational “Guantanamera” Ricardo L. Ortíz...

...Jemima Pierre This article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora...

...Frank Guridy This essay examines how diasporic commonalities are experienced in the midst of cultural and linguistic difference by highlighting the making of Afro-diasporic linkages by participants in the Harlem Renaissance and the Afro-Cubanism ( afrocubanismo ) movement. The essay interprets...

... to enumerate and digitize early modern black diasporic life. The article engages those critiques in light of black diasporic communities’ battles for justice and redress and the forms these have taken online, such as Afrofuturism, eBlack Studies, and Digital Alchemy. It argues that, while digitizing the study...

..., the introduction considers how the local, the nation, remains an important site for the construction of African diasporic identity and outlines how such nations at times facilitate diasporic imaginaries. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

... of black European diasporic formation. This essay analyzes a series of images that register blacks as Europeans, yet framed through the lens of national and familial idioms that presents them as undeniable members of German society. In so doing, the article highlights both the tensions of diasporic...

...Michael Ralph How does using the French term for jet lag, décalage , to theorize the gap in time and space that structures diasporic articulation encourage us to think of the period between the dawn of formal decolonization and the present as not merely a structure but an atmosphere...

... regulation and normalization. This essay interrogates the various transnational, diasporic, and national discourses surrounding Deepa Mehta’s Fire, with specific attention to how normativities and identities are mobilized with the circulation of the film. I begin with its Western reception and trace...

... in Asia and toward an understanding of how colonial and postcolonial histories on the subcontinent produce a different set of visual memories for diasporic subjects in America. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Archives of Empire Seher Shah’s Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force...

... diasporic population abroad. Theoretically, the article argues that dramatic expressions of identity depend on encounters and are thus significant in spatial terms. This dimension is often lost in conventional analyses of performance. Ethnographically, a drama perspective lends itself well to creole...

.... And Muñoz’s interest in the disorderly histories of wildness placed him in conversation with an eclectic array of theoretical currents from new materialism to object-oriented ontology, from animal studies to new animism, from diasporic anthropology to new postidentity theories of self and other. Muñoz...

...Adrian Burgos, Jr. The project of recovering the history of the Negro Leagues, and in so doing establishing a more complete account of U.S. professional baseball's segregated past, is fertile ground for interrogating the possibilities and limitations of diasporic frameworks. This article examines...

... the experience of African diasporic people. DuBois’s double consciousness was not simply an uncritical assertion of multiple personalities but rather a dogged analysis of both the origins and stakes of this multiplicity. What falls by the wayside in Stone’s analy- sis—and neocriticism more generally...

... of their human property. Nevertheless, the three enslaved men acted collectively, suggesting their diasporic affinities. Enslaved and free people of the African diaspora — such as these three men called bran — created, revised, and transformed their identities within the physical demands...

... that contemporary imperial formations are informed and shaped by pre- and postcolonial repertoires of rule, and that diasporic populations now living in what is known as the Global North are increasingly entwined in these very imperial formations. The essays are therefore most compelled by the notion...

... of sexuality—its imperialism, and uneven mappings of time and space across domestic as well as diasporic landscapes. empire. For instance, in its denaturalizing of various origin narratives...

... and race. The focus of this project is on early instances of African diasporic engagements with cyberspace. I begin by acknowledging my ambivalence about the rhetorical terms of the nascent technocratic order, an ambivalence that seems justified each time I boot up my personal computer to compile my...