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In 2003, IRADACcompleted its third and final year of operation
of “Language and Diaspora Culture,” a three-year
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship Residency Program
at The City College. The program sought to foster research
into how language both affects and is affected by the cultural
conditions of Diaspora, and how under these conditions linguistic
differences and affiliation interact with other categories of
identity, be they geography, race, religion, gender, or class.
As the linguistic map of the United States becomes increasingly
heterogeneous, the work emerging from this research project can
inform debate and public policy, particularly in the area of education.
Publications have appeared in the year since the conclusion of
the Residency Program by Rockefeller Fellows.
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Emily Apter:“Global
Translation: The Invention of Comparative Literature, Istanbul
1933” in Critical Inquiry Vol. 29 No. 2 Winter 2003:
253-281. She published The Translation Zone: Language Wars
and Literary Politics, Princeton University Press.
Articles and Essays include: “Condé’s Créolité
in Literary History,” in Romanic Review
(2004); “Saidian Humanism and Secular Criticism,”
Boundary 2 ( 2004); “Weaponizing the Femme
Fatale” in Journal of Fashion Institute of Technology
( 2004). ). Since her Resident Fellowship, Professor
Apter is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature
at New York University. |
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Dara N. Bryne: The
Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education.
Anderson, J., & Byrne, D.N. (Eds) Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley
& Sons (2004). Dr. Bryne presented findings of her
Residency Project “Interpreting African American Health
Narratives, Analyzing African American Identity” at
the National Communication Association Annual Convention,
November 20, 2003, Miami, FL. An unaffiliated scholar
at the time of her Resident Fellowship, Dr. Bryne has been
appointed Assistant Professor, in the Department of
Speech, Theatre and Media Studies, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, The City University of New York. |
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Cheryl
J. Fish: Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum
Explorations University Press of Florida (2003).
Charting journeys across nations and literary traditions,
Dr. Fish examines works by three undervalued writers--Mary
Seacole, an Afro-Jamaican; Nancy Prince, an African American
from Boston; and Margaret Fuller, a white New Englander and
Transcendentalist--in whose lives mobility, travel literature,
and benevolent work all converge. Dr. Fish argues that
the concept of mobility offers a significant paradigm for reading
literature of the U.S. and the Americas in the antebellum
period, particularly for women writers of the African Diaspora.
Dr. Fish has also published A Stranger in the Village: Two
Centuries of African American Travel Writing Farah Griffin
and Cheryl J. Fish, Eds. Since her residency fellowship, Dr.
Fish has been promoted to Associate Professor of English at
Borough of Manhattan Community College. |
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Holger
Henke: Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean,
(principal co-editor with Fred Reno, Director, CAGI, Université
des Antilles et de la Guyane), The University of the West
Indies Press, Kingston 2003; “Politics and Culture in
the Caribbean” in Modern Political Culture in the
Caribbean, Holger Henke and Fred Reno (eds.), xi-xxii.
Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press 2003; “The
Legitimacy of Neo-Liberal Trade Regimes in the Caribbean:
Issues of ‘Race,’ Class, and Gender” (with
Don D. Marshall), in Living at the Borderlines: Issues
in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development, Cynthia Barrow-Giles
and Don D. Marshall (eds.), 118-164. Kingston: Ian Randle
Publishers 2003; “Freedom, democracy, the state, and
class constellations in Jamaican and Caribbean political culture:
a reply to my critics,” in Identities: Global Studies
in Power and Culture, Vol.11 No.1 – (March 2004);
and “Ariel’s Ethos: On the Moral Economy of Caribbean
Existence,” in Cultural Critique, (No.56, Winter 2004).
The invited paper “Suggestions for the Development of
a Theory of Everyday Life in the Caribbean,” a spin-off
from the residency fellowship project presented at the annual
conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, has
been published in the archives webpage of the University
of the West Indies’ Centre for Caribbean Thought
website at
http://isis.uwimona.edu.jm/government/CCT.htm.Since
the completion of his Resident Fellowship, Holger Henke
has been promoted from assistant editor to editor of the
refereed journal Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean
and its Diaspora.
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Journals/wadabagei/Index.shtml
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Jane C. Marcus:
Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race, Rutgers
University Press (2004); White Looks, Black Books: Nancy
Cunard and Modernism Primitivism (Forthcoming Rutgers
U. Press 2004-05). Dr. Marcus is a distinguished professor
at City College and the Graduate Center who specializes in
Feminist literary criticism; 20th-century British literature
and intellectual history (women's suffrage, World War I);
transatlantic cultural studies (African diaspora, the 1930s);
Virginia Woolf; primitivism and modernism; Nancy Cunard and
the Negro anthology; intersections of race, class and culture. |
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Ivor
L. Miller: “Cuban Abakuá chants: examining new evidence
for the African Diaspora” (African Studies
Review, September 2004, v. 47, n. 2); “Sacred Migrations:
A leopard society established by West Africans in Cuba provokes
questions about tradition and memory in urban environments.”
(Black Renaissance, NYU); “Lukumí and Kongo
Identities in Cuba: the Art of Francisco ‘Gordillo’
Arredondo.” (The International Review of African
American Art); “Notes from the Underground: the
increasing relevance of Hip Hop” (Black Renaissance,
NYU); “The Formation of African Identities in the Americas:
Spiritual ‘ethnicity’” (Contours: A Journal
of the African Diaspora); “Abakuá in Florida, Northern,
and West Africa: Exiled Members of the Cuban Brotherhood.”
Africa in Florida. Eds., Amanda Carlson & Robin
Poynor. UP of Florida; “Jesús Pérez and the transculturation
of the Cuban batá drum.” Dialago. n. 7. Center
for Latino Research. DePaul University. Spring : 70-74 (2003).
A book, Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City
was published by UP of Mississippi (2002). Miller is contributing
editor, Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora.
Published twice yearly by the University of Illinois Press. |
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Arthur K. Spears:
Black Linguistics: Language, Society
and Politics in Africa and the Americas. Makoni,
Sinfree, Geneva Smitherman, Arnetha F. Ball, and Arthur K.
Spears, eds. New York: Routledge (2003). ; “Introduction”
(with Sinfree Makoni). Black Linguistics. Makoni,
Smitherman, Ball, and Spears, eds. 1-17. 2003;
“Languages: Africanisms in the America” African
Folklore: An Encyclopedia., ed. by Philip M. Peek and
Kwesi Yankah, 207-210. Routledge. 2004. Arthur Spears
is the Anthropology Chairperson at City College. |
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Olivia Smith-Storey:
"Flying Words: Contests of Orality and Literacy in the Trope
of the Flying Africans,"Journal of Colonialism
and Colonial History, (Fall, 2004).
Olivia Storey is an associate professor at
Colby-Sawyer College in the Humanities Department. She earned
a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. Professor
Storey teaches courses in Caribbean, African-American and
British literature. Author of The Politics
of Language 1791-1819, she is researching a book-length
study on the literature of the African Diaspora and recently
received a Rockefeller Foundation Award in the Humanities. |
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Carlyle V. Thompson:
The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American
Literary Imagination, New York: Peter Lang Publishers
(2004). “’Circles and Circles of Sorrow’:
Decapitation in Toni Morrison’s Sula” College
Language Association Journal.
Carlyle Van Thompson is Associate Professor
of African American and American Literature at Medgar Evers
College, the City University of New York. He received his
Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia
University. In addition to numerous articles in professional
journals and book reviews, he wrote a provocative article
on Abner Louima and white male police brutality in New York
City. |
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