Guest Editor: Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Published: 2020-07-14
Articles
Introduction
"Frontiers and Frameworks in African Diaspora Teaching and Scholarship"
Abstract
I am honored to represent the intellectual contributions of Spelman College’s faculty in this special issue. This publication is the first...
Implementing an Intervention in the Spelman College African Diaspora and the World Course
19–27
AbstractThis article describes an interdisciplinary team of researchers’ exploration of the impact of metacognitive instruction on first-year students...
Mental Marronage on the Metacognitive Mountain
Teaching Critical Analysis, Historical Awareness and Social Activism to ADW Student Writers
28–37
AbstractJust as their ancestors went through the process of being physically liberated, students must undergo the process of being intellectually...
The Pedagogy of Performing Learning and Teaching to Increase Students' Success in the African Diaspora and the World Class and Beyond
38–51
AbstractFred Newman “Performing the World” and his theory and practice of the “performative” are particularly useful in that students’ learning...
Toward an Understanding of "Ashé" as an Aesthetic Condition
52–66
AbstractAs an artist and cultural investigator specializing in contemporary art theory and practice, my area of research is centered on African...
Decoding Black Iconography
The Art Museum and the Acquisition of Visual Culture Literacy in Diaspora Studies in College
67–80
AbstractThe paper examines how the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the only one in the country dedicated to the work of African descended women...
Race and Representation in Twenty-First Century America
81–92
AbstractThis article examines Black women in the development of African-American politics, initially using race as a framework for analyzing the...
Book Review Essay
93–101
AbstractJerome C. Branche, editor. Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic. Routledge, 2018.
Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia....
Black Skin, White Tourists
Race, Queerness, and Sex Tourism in Dominican Film "Sand Dollars"
102–115
AbstractSand Dollars (Dólares de Arena) is a 2014 coproduction by Dominican film director Laura Amelia Guzmán and her husband, Mexican...
"Identity Negotiation and Alien Residency"
Caribbean-American "In-Betweenity" in Elizabeth Nunez's "Anna In Between, Boundaries," and "Not for Everyday Use"
116–127
AbstractIn her memoir, Not for Everyday Use (2014), and her novel Anna in Between (2009) and its sequel, Boundaries (2011), Elizabeth Nunez explores the...
Notes on Contributors
129–133