Rewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies
Issue 7.2 | Spring 2009

Rewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies

Guest Edited by Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall

IN THIS ISSUE

Introduction
by Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall

About this Issue
by Gisela Fosado

Recommended Reading

Online Resources

PART 1
The Art of History

“Heartsore”: The Melancholy Archive of Cape Colony Slavery
by Yvette Christiansë

“She Better Off Dead than Jest Livin’ for the Whip”: Enslaved Women’s Resistance in the Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Nation
by Celia Naylor

ANOTHER BUILDING dancing: Making Quarantine and Savoneta
by Gabri Christa

Holding on to the Memories
a story by Jackee Budesta Batanda
introduction by Kathryn Tobin

Alma Latina: The American Hemisphere’s Racial Melodramas
by Hiram Perez

PART 2
The Politics of Citizenship/ The Performance of Politics

Race, Gender and Votes
a lecture by Lani Guinier

Barack Hussein Obama, or, The Name of the Father
by Tavia Nyong’o

Abolition Democracy and Global Politics
a lecture by Angela Davis

Negotiating with the Diaspora
an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo
by Nafeesah Allen

If I Had a Hundred Arms, I Would Do Many Things
an interview with Werewere Liking
by Christine Cynn

A Reunion of “Sisters”: Personal Reflections on Diaspora and Women in Activist Discourse
by Makini Boothe

PART 3
The Black Diaspora and the Academy

Rethinking African Universities: Gender and Transformation
by Amina Mama

The Groundings with my Sisters: Toward a Black Diasporic Feminist Agenda in the Americas
by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

This issue was made possible in part by
the Ford Foundation's Difficult Dialogues Initiative. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of
the authors.