Aaron Kamugisha
Biographic Data
| ID | 156201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Kamugisha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamugisha |
| SIGNATURE | KAMUGISHA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals
BIn this essay, I reflect on the radical Caribbean intellectual tradition's contribution to the idea of the Global South. Within this immense potential terrain of exploration, I investigate the question of the contemporary responsibilities of the Caribbean intellectual, using this as a means through which some of the most discerning anticolonial traditions of the region can be proffered towards theorizing a global South perspective on the future …
Reproducing Domination
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects key essays on the Caribbean by Percy Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone-Caribbean studies. For the past 30 years, Percy Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the post-colonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora studies. H…
Kamau at Ninety
This introduction opens a special section featuring a series of tributes in homage to Kamau Brathwaite. The author's generational perspective becomes the occasion for a reflection on Brathwaite's legacy, creative voice, and sustained vision of the future of the Caribbean. The essay further presents an account of the author's attempt to shelter and represent this legacy in the form of Kamau at Ninety, a university course in Brathwaite's honor, off…
The Point is to Change the World
The Guyanese radical activist Andaiye (1942–2019) was one of the most important public intellectuals in the Caribbean, whose work on behalf of working people, in the cause of women, and with intern
Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality
This essay proffers a response to three critical engagements with the author's 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition. The author contextualizes Beyond Coloniality as a book that seeks to effect a challenging alliance between studies of the anglophone Caribbean's postindependence social and political order and scholarship on Caribbean thought. Ultimately, Beyond Coloniality engages in a quest for …
Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies
This essay traces the roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, approaching these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. In the era of twentieth-century Caribbean anticolonialism, nationalism, and decolonization, local intellectuals emerged in the public arena throughout the Caribbean region. The author studies the intellectual interplays and incubations taking place, asking if and how Du…
Peter Abrahams's Island Fictions for Freedom
When South African-born Peter Abrahams moved to Jamaica in 1956, he thought he had found a racial paradise. Over the next six decades as a Jamaican, his understanding of race in Jamaica was complicated after independence. His last two novels-This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)-fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest …
Beyond Trouillot
This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot's writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past's acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic "guild" that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin…
Skirts Rolled Up
This essay considers the participation of Port-au-Prince women in municipal and national politics during the later decades of the nineteenth century. The growth of Port-au-Prince changed the dynamics of these contests, as newly arrived women joined expanding popular neighborhoods, and many assumed a central role in feeding the city. Women moved freely through the heart of the capital and the immediate countryside on personal, commercial, and some…
Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement and to demonstrate the extent to which the repatriation created a transnational documentary trail with a set of archival imperatives that renders the national archive insufficient for the reco…
The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration of eight relatively discrete though overlapping categories. It argues that the study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduct…
Beyond Coloniality
The Black Experience of New World Coloniality
Black Metamorphosis," Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in "Black Metamorphosis" through the figure of the non-norm, a central category for Wynter throughout the manuscript. The black presence in the New World is subterranean but omnipresent, fugitive but hyper…
That Area of Experience That We Term the New World
This essay introduces Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World," an unpublished 900-plus-page manuscript written by Wynter in the 1970s. "Black Metamorphosis" is a remarkable manuscript, and it deserves close study for a number of reasons. It is arguably the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly…
C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World
On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies
This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean culture is in many ways inseparable from a study of its intellectual traditions in their social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. While this may seem unremarkable…
The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James
It is not too much to claim that C.L.R. James is the individual who has exercised the most decisive influence on political ideas in the twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean. Central to any consideration of his lifework is his concept of the new society – a term recurrent in his post-World War II writings. This new society that James hoped to help usher in was dependent on a transformation in gender relations, and James’s firm linkage of human f…
The Life and Death of a Nation
Physically burdened as I am, I feel impelled to overcome my difficulties to the extent that that is possible and tell you what are my political views in the present crisis. It is the most desperate that the WI [West Indies] have faced since the emancipation from slavery. The idea of a West Indian nation cannot dissolve... For me this is not a question of governments but of people, of what world the young people will grow up into, what spirit they…
The coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean
A common theme to the political crisis of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean is the denial of full citizenship to many persons in the nation state - not primarily in a legal sense but in the variety of practices, tropes of belonging and identity concerns that frustrate and deny the aspirations of many Caribbean people. This `coloniality of citizenship' is a complex amalgam of elite domination, neoliberalism and the legacy of colonial authorita…
Finally in Africa? Egypt, from Diop to Celenko
Le spectre de l'Egypte hante les debats sur l'historiographie de l'Afrique ancienne. L'A. examine un aspect de la longue histoire des idees associees au debat sur l'ancienne civilisation de l'Egypte : la resurrection de l'importance de l'Egypte ancienne et de son africanite pour le monde noir par Cheikh Anta Diop, a partir de son livre Nations Negres et Culture, en relation avec la comprehension contemporaine de l'Egypte dans le monde anglophone.…
The coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean
A common theme to the political crisis of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean is the denial of full citizenship to many persons in the nation state - not primarily in a legal sense but in the variety of practices, tropes of belonging and identity concerns that frustrate and deny the aspirations of many Caribbean people. This `coloniality of citizenship' is a complex amalgam of elite domination, neoliberalism and the legacy of colonial authorita…
The Black Experience of New World Coloniality
Black Metamorphosis," Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in "Black Metamorphosis" through the figure of the non-norm, a central category for Wynter throughout the manuscript. The black presence in the New World is subterranean but omnipresent, fugitive but hyper…
The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration of eight relatively discrete though overlapping categories. It argues that the study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduct…
On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies
This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean culture is in many ways inseparable from a study of its intellectual traditions in their social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. While this may seem unremarkable…
Finally in Africa? Egypt, from Diop to Celenko
Le spectre de l'Egypte hante les debats sur l'historiographie de l'Afrique ancienne. L'A. examine un aspect de la longue histoire des idees associees au debat sur l'ancienne civilisation de l'Egypte : la resurrection de l'importance de l'Egypte ancienne et de son africanite pour le monde noir par Cheikh Anta Diop, a partir de son livre Nations Negres et Culture, en relation avec la comprehension contemporaine de l'Egypte dans le monde anglophone.…
The coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean
A common theme to the political crisis of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean is the denial of full citizenship to many persons in the nation state - not primarily in a legal sense but in the variety of practices, tropes of belonging and identity concerns that frustrate and deny the aspirations of many Caribbean people. This `coloniality of citizenship' is a complex amalgam of elite domination, neoliberalism and the legacy of colonial authorita…
The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James
It is not too much to claim that C.L.R. James is the individual who has exercised the most decisive influence on political ideas in the twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean. Central to any consideration of his lifework is his concept of the new society – a term recurrent in his post-World War II writings. This new society that James hoped to help usher in was dependent on a transformation in gender relations, and James’s firm linkage of human f…
The Life and Death of a Nation
Physically burdened as I am, I feel impelled to overcome my difficulties to the extent that that is possible and tell you what are my political views in the present crisis. It is the most desperate that the WI [West Indies] have faced since the emancipation from slavery. The idea of a West Indian nation cannot dissolve... For me this is not a question of governments but of people, of what world the young people will grow up into, what spirit they…
On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies
This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean culture is in many ways inseparable from a study of its intellectual traditions in their social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. While this may seem unremarkable…
C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World
The Black Experience of New World Coloniality
Black Metamorphosis," Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in "Black Metamorphosis" through the figure of the non-norm, a central category for Wynter throughout the manuscript. The black presence in the New World is subterranean but omnipresent, fugitive but hyper…
That Area of Experience That We Term the New World
This essay introduces Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World," an unpublished 900-plus-page manuscript written by Wynter in the 1970s. "Black Metamorphosis" is a remarkable manuscript, and it deserves close study for a number of reasons. It is arguably the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly…
Beyond Coloniality
The Point is to Change the World
The Guyanese radical activist Andaiye (1942–2019) was one of the most important public intellectuals in the Caribbean, whose work on behalf of working people, in the cause of women, and with intern
Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality
This essay proffers a response to three critical engagements with the author's 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition. The author contextualizes Beyond Coloniality as a book that seeks to effect a challenging alliance between studies of the anglophone Caribbean's postindependence social and political order and scholarship on Caribbean thought. Ultimately, Beyond Coloniality engages in a quest for …
Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies
This essay traces the roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, approaching these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. In the era of twentieth-century Caribbean anticolonialism, nationalism, and decolonization, local intellectuals emerged in the public arena throughout the Caribbean region. The author studies the intellectual interplays and incubations taking place, asking if and how Du…
Peter Abrahams's Island Fictions for Freedom
When South African-born Peter Abrahams moved to Jamaica in 1956, he thought he had found a racial paradise. Over the next six decades as a Jamaican, his understanding of race in Jamaica was complicated after independence. His last two novels-This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)-fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest …
Beyond Trouillot
This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot's writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past's acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic "guild" that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin…
Skirts Rolled Up
This essay considers the participation of Port-au-Prince women in municipal and national politics during the later decades of the nineteenth century. The growth of Port-au-Prince changed the dynamics of these contests, as newly arrived women joined expanding popular neighborhoods, and many assumed a central role in feeding the city. Women moved freely through the heart of the capital and the immediate countryside on personal, commercial, and some…
Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement and to demonstrate the extent to which the repatriation created a transnational documentary trail with a set of archival imperatives that renders the national archive insufficient for the reco…
The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration of eight relatively discrete though overlapping categories. It argues that the study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduct…
Reproducing Domination
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects key essays on the Caribbean by Percy Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone-Caribbean studies. For the past 30 years, Percy Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the post-colonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora studies. H…
Kamau at Ninety
This introduction opens a special section featuring a series of tributes in homage to Kamau Brathwaite. The author's generational perspective becomes the occasion for a reflection on Brathwaite's legacy, creative voice, and sustained vision of the future of the Caribbean. The essay further presents an account of the author's attempt to shelter and represent this legacy in the form of Kamau at Ninety, a university course in Brathwaite's honor, off…
The Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals
BIn this essay, I reflect on the radical Caribbean intellectual tradition's contribution to the idea of the Global South. Within this immense potential terrain of exploration, I investigate the question of the contemporary responsibilities of the Caribbean intellectual, using this as a means through which some of the most discerning anticolonial traditions of the region can be proffered towards theorizing a global South perspective on the future …
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)