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INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SUMMER SEMINAR 2004
IMAGINING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: GENEALOGY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
SYLLABUS
WEEK ONE, JULY 12-16 (ESSED AND GOLDBERG):
"African Diaspora Studies: Epistemologies and Methodologies"
Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of California, Irvine
David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine
Monday July 12
9:00 – 12:30 Orientation, Academic One, Room 226
1:30PM Library Orientation in room: LIB-124
5:30PM Opening Reception, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
(Light food and refreshments will be served)
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Moving Concepts of Race and Racism: Travel, Emotion, Resistance
Dr. Philomena Essed, Dr. David Theo Goldberg
Tuesday July 13,
9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts, by Dr. Philomena Essed and Dr. David Theo Goldberg
Although Professors Essed and Goldberg gave a longer list of readings (see below), their discussion will mostly focus on the readings indicated under the title “Selected readings for July 13th. We recommend that the students consult, prior to their arrival in Miami, all readings listed, if possible.
Literature
Philomena Essed & David Theo Goldberg. (Eds.) Race Critical Theories: Text and Context. Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. 2002
ISBN:0-631-21438-0Troy Duster. Backdoor to Eugenics. Routledge; 2nd edition (September 2003).
ISBN: 0415946743Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, Anand Pandian (Eds). Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference. Duke UP. 2003.
Michel Foucault, "Society Must be Defended" 2002 New York: Picador
Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture). Oxford UP ISBN 0195151623
Cynthia Cockburn. The Space Between Us. Negotiating Gender and National
Identities in Conflict. London, New York, Zed Books. 1998.
ISBN: 185649618XFrance Winddance Twine & Jonathan W. Warren. Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies. New York and London: New York University Press. 2000.
Philomena Essed & David Theo Goldberg. Cloning Cultures: The Social Injustices of Sameness. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 25. No. 6. pp. 1066-1082.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 2000: The Global Traffic in Human Organs. Current Anthropology. Volume 41. Nr 2.
Selected readings for Tuesday 13 July:
** required
+ recommended
Philomena Essed & David Theo Goldberg. (Eds.) Race Critical Theories: Text and Context. Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. 2002.
** Edward Said. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental, pp 15-37.
** Toni Morrison. Black Matters, pp 265-282.
+ Patricia Hill Collins. Defining Black Feminist Talk, pp 152-175.
France Winddance Twine & Jonathan W. Warren. Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemma's in Critical Race Studies. New York and London: New York University Press. 2000.
** Michael Hanchard. Racism, Eroticism, and the Paradoxes of a U.S. Black Researcher in Brazil, pp 165-185.
Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, Anand Pandian (Eds). Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference. Duke UP. 2003
** Steven Gregory. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity pp 323-355
+ Bruce Braun. “On the Raggedy Edge of Risk”: Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology pp 175-203
+ John and Jean Comaroff. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1992
Wednesday July 14, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed on that week:
Queering African Diaspora: BallRoom Performance and Queer “World-Marking.”
Marlon M. Bailey, University of California-Berkeley
Whither the African Diaspora? A Preliminary Look at African Ontology and the Challenge of Transnationalism
Chambi Seithy Chachage, University of Cape Town/University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Identity and Political Process in the Global African Diaspora
Daphine Washington, University of South Florida
(Re)Imaging Self: Revisionist Discourses of the Afro-Caribbean Intelligentsia, 1838-1950s
Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Trinidad & Tobago
On Wednesday July 14, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
-Joselina da Silva will present a critical reading of Marlon Bailey’s paper
-Elias Nankap Lamle will present a critical reading of Chambi Seithy Chachage’s paper
-La Toya Beck will present a critical reading of Daphine Washington’s paper
-Mikaila Brown will present a critical reading of Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis’s paper
Thursday July 15, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday July 15, the authors of the papers presented critically the day before (Marlon Bailey, Chambi Seithy Chachage, Daphine Washington, Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis) will respond, critically as well, to the July 14th presentation of their papers.
Friday July 16, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Friday July 16, Dr. Philomena Essed and Dr. David Goldberg will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 14 & 15.
WEEK TWO, JULY 19-23 (HANCHARD):
"Modernity, Nation, and Citizenship"
Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University, Evanston
Monday July 19
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Post-Nationalism and Black Political Thought
Dr. Michael Hanchard
Tuesday July 20, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts, by Dr. Michael Hanchard
-Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition, London : Totowa, N.J. : Zed ; Biblio Distribution Center, 1983.
-Michael Hanchard, “Racial Consciousness and Afro-Diasporic Experience: Antonio Gramsci Reconsidered”, Socialism and Democracy, Fall, issue 14: 83-106.
-Edmund Gordon, Disparate Diasporas: identity and politics in an African Nicaraguan community, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1998.
-George Padmore, Pan-Africanism or Communism, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971
Tuesday July 20, 5:00PM, Lecture, Academic One, Room TBA
Ballot or the Bullet: Excerpts of Film Interviews with Legendary Artists on History and Culture in the African World
Dr. Ida Tafari, Florida International University
Wednesday July 21, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed on that week:
Conjunctions and Identifications: South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries
Stephane Robolin, Duke University
The Tropics in New York: Race, Banking and Empire in the Caribbean
Peter James Hudson, New York University
Jamaican Professional Return Migrants: Agents of Social Transformation?
Mikaila Brown, Columbia University
A União dos Homens de Cor: Brazilian Black Movement after the Second World War
Joselina Da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
On Wednesday July 21, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
-Chambi Seithy Chachage will present a critical reading of Stephane Robolin’s paper
-Nicole Castor will present a critical reading of Peter J. Hudson’s paper
-Aaron Kamugisha will present a critical reading of Mikaila Brown’s paper
-Maboula Soumahoro will present a critical reading of Joselina da Silva’s paper
Thursday July 22, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday July 22, The authors of the papers presented critically the day before (Stephane Robolin, Peter James Hudson, Mikaila Brown, and Joselina da Silva) will respond, critically as well, to the July 21st presentation of their papers.
Friday July 23, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Friday July 23, Dr. Michael Hanchard will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 21 & 22.
Friday July 23, 5:00PM, Lecture, Academic One, Room TBA
Experiences of Blackness: Haitian and Haitian American Youth in Miami
Dr. Yves Labuissière, Portland State University
Friday July 23, 8:00PM, Dinner at either “Tap Tap” (Haitian restaurant) or “Kafe Nuvo” (Haitian restaurant)
Saturday July 24, afternoon
Relaxing get together at the beach. We will have rented two vans for that weekend.
Saturday July 24, 7:30PM
Party at Dr. Rahier’s house: (954) 894-0023
7501 Biltmore Boulevard
Miramar, Florida 33023
Sunday July 25, all morning
Attendance, with Dr. Labuissière, of a Catholic mass at Notre Dame D'Haiti and visit of the associated Haitian Catholic Center, in Little Haiti, Miami.
WEEK THREE, JULY 26-30 (HESSE):
"The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture"
Barnor Hesse, University of East London
The United Kingdom
Monday July 26
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Black Performatives/Racial Assemblages: Politics and the Political in the
African Diaspora
Dr. Barnor Hesse
Tuesday July 27, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts, by Dr. Barnor Hesse
Saidiya Hartman Scenes of Subjection: Terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America, New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
James C. Scott Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts, New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.
David Scott Refashioning futures : criticism after postcoloniality, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999
Edwards Brent Hayes The practice of diaspora: literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Achilles Mbembe On the postcolony, Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Wednesday July 28, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed on that week:
Canada’s Modern Caribana, 1967-2002
Lyndon Phillip, University of Toronto
Here there and everywhere: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean
LaToya Beck, University of California-Berkeley
The Making of Black Canadian Identities
Andrea Fatona, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto
Invoking the Spirit: Public Culture and the Politics of Nationhood in Trinidad
Nicole Castor, University of Chicago
Black Peoples, Black Gods: A Comparative Analysis of the Nation of Islam and Rastafari, 1930-1950
Maboula Soumahoro, Université François Rabelais-Tours, France
On Wednesday July 28, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
-Sophie F. Saint-Just will present a critical reading of Lyndon Phillip’s paper
-Daphine Washington will present a critical reading of LaToya Beck’s paper
-Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis will present a critical reading of Andrea Fatona’s paper
-Andrea Fatona will present a critical reading of Nicole Castor’s paper
-Lyndon Phillip will present a critical reading of Maboula Soumahoro’s paper
Thursday July 29, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday July 29, The authors of the papers presented critically the day before (Lyndon Phillip, Sophie F. Saint-Just, Andrea Fatona, Nicole Castor, Maboula Soumahoro) will respond, critically as well, to the July 28st presentation of their papers.
Friday July 30, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Friday July 30, Dr. Barnor Hesse will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 28 & 29.
Friday July 30, Lecture, 5:00PM, Academic One, Room TBA
The 1960’s Revisited: Race, Culture, and Revolution at the Cuban Crossroad
Dr. Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal, University of California at Santa Cruz
WEEK FOUR, AUGUST 2-6 (IRELE):
"African Diaspora: Philosophies and Ideologies"
Abiola Irele, Harvard University
Monday August 2
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Blackness and Modernity: Richard Wright, Franz Fanon and the
African Nation
Dr. Abiola Irele
Tuesday August 3, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts, by Dr. Abiola Irele
-Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott, Editors, I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
-Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
All of Sections II to V of Race. Edited by Robert Bernasconi. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. pp 57- 201.
(These four sections are devoted to essays by Du Bois, Nardal, Sartre, Senghor and Fanon and commentaries on them. Given the extent of these extracts, it might even be better to simply acquire the book).
Wednesday August 4, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed on that week:
The Role and Implication of Trans Saharan Trade on the Genealogy and Social Construction of the African Diaspora
Elias Nankap Lamle, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium
Voices From South Africa: A Redefinition of the African Identity Paradigm
Maria Taglioli, University of Padua, Italy
The Contemporary as Absurdity: Reflections on Denials of Citizenship in the Anglophone Caribbean Postcolony
Aaron Kamugisha, York University
French Caribbean Films and the Genealogy of Black Performativity
Sophie F. Saint-Just, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
On Wednesday August 4, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
-María Taglioli will present a critical reading of Elias Nankap Lamle’s paper
-Stephane Robolin will present a critical reading of María Taglioli’s paper
-Peter James Hudson will present a critical reading of Aaron Kamugisha’s paper
-Marlon Bailey will present a critical reading of Sophie F. Saint-Just’s paper
Thursday August 5, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday August 5, The authors of the papers presented critically the day before (Elias Nankap Lamle, Maria Taglioli, Aaron Kamugisha, LaToya Beck) will respond, critically as well, to the August 4th presentation of their papers.
Friday August 6, 9:00AM – 12:30PM, Academic One, Room 226
On Friday August 6, Dr. Abiola Irele will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of August 4 & 5.
DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE 2004
IMAGINING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: GENEALOGY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
August 7th, 2004
FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University BallRoom
8:30 – 9:00: Opening Statements
Dr. Raul Moncarz, Vice-Provost, Biscayne Bay Campus
Dr. Doug Kincaid, Vice-Provost, International Studies
Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, Coordinating Faculty, Interrogating the African
Diaspora
9:00 – 9:45
FRAGMENTED GEOGRAPHIES AND LOCAL/GLOBAL IDENTITIES: THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA I
Chair: Sabrina Collins, Florida International University
The Role and Implication of Trans Saharan Trade on the Genealogy and Social Construction of the African Diaspora
Elias Nankap Lamle, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium
Whither the African Diaspora? A Preliminary Look at African Ontology and the Challenge of Transnationalism
Chambi Seithy Chachage, University of Cape Town/University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Voices From South Africa: A Redefinition of the African Identity Paradigm
Maria Taglioli, University of Padua, Italy
Discussant: Dr. James Sweet, University of Wisconsin
9:45 – 10:00 Open Discussion
10:00 – 10:45
FRAGMENTED GEOGRAPHIES AND LOCAL/GLOBAL IDENTITIES: THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA II
Chair: Dean Wagstaffe, ABD, Florida International University
Identity and Political Process in the Global African Diaspora
Daphine Washington, University of South Florida
Here there and everywhere: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean
LaToya Beck, University of California-Berkeley
Discussant: Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University
10:45 – 11:00 Open Discussion
11:15 – 12:30
THE MAKING/IMAGINING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Dr. Rita Koyame, Florida Memorial College
The Tropics in New York: Race, Banking and Empire in the Caribbean
Peter James Hudson, New York University
The Contemporary as Absurdity: Reflections on Denials of Citizenship in the Anglophone Caribbean Postcolony
Aaron Kamugisha, York University
(Re)Imaging Self: Revisionist Discourses of the Afro-Caribbean Intelligentsia, 1838-1950s
Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Trinidad & Tobago
Jamaican Professional Return Migrants: Agents of Social Transformation?
Mikaila Brown, Columbia University
Discussant: Dr. Percy Claude Hintzen, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 – 12:45 Open Discussion
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:00
THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS I
Chair: Dr. Heather Andrade, Florida International University
Queering African Diaspora: BallRoom Performance and Queer “World-Marking.”
Marlon M. Bailey, University of California-Berkeley
A União dos Homens de Cor: Brazilian Black Movement after the Second World War
Joselina Da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Canada’s Modern Caribana, 1967-2002
Lyndon Phillip, University of Toronto
Discussant: Dr. Layli Phillips, Georgia State University
3:00 – 3:15 Open Discussion
3:15 – 4:00
THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS II
Chair: Dr. Terry Rey, Florida International University
Invoking the Spirit: Public Culture and the Politics of Nationhood in Trinidad
Nicole Castor, University of Chicago
French Caribbean Films and the Genealogy of Black Performativity
Sophie F. Saint-Just, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Discussant: Dr. Dionne Stephens, Florida International University
4:00 – 4:15 Open Discussion
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30
THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS III
Chair: Dr. Tometro Hopkins, Florida International University
Black Peoples, Black Gods: A Comparative Analysis of the Nation of Islam and Rastafari, 1930-1950
Maboula Soumahoro, Université François Rabelais-Tours, France
The Making of Black Canadian Identities
Andrea Fatona, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto
Conjunctions and Identifications: South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries
Stephane Robolin, Duke University
Discussant: Dr. Felipe Smith, Tulane University
5:30 – 5:45 Open Discussion