• “My People all over the World”: Hip Hop, Gender, and Black Nationalism

  

   Authors: Distiller, Natasha Date: 2008 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women (2007) and Charise L. Cheney’s Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (2005) both offer committed and informed ... Read more

• Rewriting Modernity

  

   Authors: Raditlhalo, Sam Date: 2008 The question of claiming agency for marginalized peoples, and describing and analyzing the nature of this agency and subjectivity, has been at the heart of the postcolonial project. This apparently simple objective is complicated by two major ... Read more

• Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report

  

   Authors: Young, Sandra Date: 2010 In tracing the stories—or ‘‘histories,’’ as sixteenth-century exploration narratives were called—with which expansionist Europe came to know its colonial Other, we see outlines of the habits of thought and the systems of identification with ... Read more

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