IN THIS ISSUE
Introduction
by Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall
About this Issue
by Gisela Fosado
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.
