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publications

  

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS


"Breath. Fugitivity. Wild Horses: Black EcoFeminist Strategies for Healing in a Predatory Empire" in Hicks-Peterson, Tessa and Masri, Hala, eds., Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing and Systems Change,  Berkeley: North Atlantic Books (July 2024): 135-155.


"Incidents in the Life of a Black Prof.: A Speculative Curriculum. Vitae," in Davis, Sharde M., ed., Being Black In the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2024): 


"Who Do You Worship?: #Memesis #whodoyouworship? #Beyonce'theFeminist #AprilBey" in Bray, Anne, ed., Dis...Miss Gender, Cambridge: MIT Press (2023): 171-179.


“Unenslaveable Rapture: Afrxfuturism and Diasporic Vertigo in Beyoncé's Lemonade.”  Afrofuturism special issue,TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies: Special Issue: Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures, VanVeen, tobias c. and Reynaldo Anderson, eds. Published online Oct. 2, 2018. Print edition November 2018. https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/topia.39.06


 “‘Neon Slaves, Electric Savages’: Badoula Oblongata, The ArchAndroid & Saartje Baartman’s Ghost,” in Afrofuturism and (Un)Popular Music.  tobias c. van Veen, eds. (volume under submission)

  

“‘A Kind of Restoration’: Psychogeographies of Healing in Toni Morrison’s Home” in Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning, University Press of Mississipi, Tally, Justine and Adrienne Seward, eds. (Sept. 2014): 194-204. 


“‘Dust to Cleanse Themselves,’ A Survivor’s Ethos: Diasporic Disidentifications in Zeitoun” in Biography, 35.2, “Special Issue: Life Stories from the Creole City,” Spring 2012: 271-285. 


“Placing Toni Morrison’s Love: African American and Women of Color Feminists Theorizing Embodiment, Home, and Memory as Political Resistance.” International Journal of the Humanities, 2(2), Nairn, Tom and Mary Kalantzis, Eds., Melbourne, Australia: Common Ground Publishing, Spring 2006: 1425-1433. 


“1+1=3 and Other Dilemmas: Reading Vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon.” African American Review, Vol. 37, #1, Spring 2003: 81-94.  



CREATIVE NONFICTION/MEMOIR


“The Red Bucket, Tango, & Nahui Xochitl” in Jalada Africa 2 Anthology: Afrofuturism (Spring 2015). https://jalada.org/2015/01/14/jalada-02-afrofutures/


“The Break,” in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, Walker, Rebecca, ed., Berkeley: Soft Skull Press (January 2012).  (see also Rebecca Walker "Black Cool" interview NPR https://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146863332/writers-explore-the-meaning-of-black-cool)


  

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