R Walcott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 23624 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Walcott |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Walcott |
| FIRMA | WALCOTT R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2264-0838 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Hugo Ka Canham’s Riotous Deathscapes and the future of Black Studies
Longing Across the Black Diaspora
In this paper I argue that in Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand is an ethnographer of Black interiority and gives us a poetics of Black psychoanalysis rejoining our slaveness to a less alienated geo-environmental social. I argue that we might read Brand alongside Saidiya Hartman and Paule Marshall as writers coming to terms with Black being as one consecrated in disruption and producing a “tribe of the Middle Passage.” I further suggest …
Undoing the University; or Whatever Happened to Antiracist Feminism
Another University, Now
“Retrospective Significance”
This paper attempts to articular a notion of a Black ontological order or form experienced through a set of conditions that seek to produce a coherent incoherent blackness. I argue that Black being is one that is only known through an external essential imposition of a Euro-American narrative of what I call global niggerdom in which all Black people are made the same through post-Enlightenment modernist antiblack logics. The conditions, identific…
A History of Violence
Rinaldo Walcott discusses the intersections between the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality in this contribution to the special issue
Neither Native or National
The planet's multiple crises demands new modes of thought, new political agendas and reassessments of where we have arrived. Nandita Sharma's Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020) is a book that roams the planet connecting how separation works to fashion identity claims concerning nations, citizens, migrants and natives. Sharma's profound critique of sovereignty as a mode of separation rather than one o…
The Black Aquatic
This essay argues that thinking through black diasporic life as birthed through a unique and ongoing relationship with bodies of water (sea, oceans, rivers, creeks) can and does aid in analyses of contemporary art and its engagement with black subjectivity. I am concerned with how bodies of water are foundationally formative of blackness. And secondarily I pursue how this foundational aspect of blackness is both an act of representation worth eng…
Inner Plantation
This essay suggests that Caribbean studies and Black studies might be constituted as twins, arguing that Blackness and Black people are the foundational instituted terms of both studies. This argument is based in the author's reading of the anglophone Caribbean and draws on Kamau Brathwaite's insights of how a psycho-poetics of thought shapes Caribbeanness
Outside in Black Studies
Nothing New Here to See
This essay argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 resides in an already existing state-derived practice of antiblack racism. The antiblackness of this moment is compounded by state processes of antiblack abandonment in which Black people have been the foundation for neoliberal capitalist reordering. Along with police violence and other state violences, especially that of the violence of health disparities, the era of COVID-19 to highlights the s…
Sociology
Moonlight 's Necessary Company
Research Article| April 01 2019 MOONLIGHT ’S NECESSARY COMPANY Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott is professor and director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. He is the author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2019) 25 (2): 337–341. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7367792 Cite Icon Cite Share …
The End of Diversity
In this essay, the author suggests that diversity as an idea has reached its logical end. The essay proposes that something more radical and sustaining than diversity is now required if whiteness is to be understood as the foundation and barrier that preempts nonwhite others from the structural arrangements that currently govern human life. In arguing that diversity is over, the essay seeks to grapple with the structural limits of our desires for…
Idle No More and Black Lives Matter
Situating Indigenous and Black Resistance in the Global Movement Assemblage (Video Presentation)
Robin D. G. Kelley and Fred Moten in Conversation
Freedom Now Suite
This essay suggests that Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being calls us to attend to the limits of what freedom means for black people around the world. By reading some recent conceptual claims in black studies alongside Sharpe’s work, it seeks to demonstrate a certain theoretical cul de sac in contemporary black studies theorizations that requires further thought if we are to diligently contemplate the stakes of freedom for blac…
Black Lives Matter, police and Pride
Still Here
Queer family is real. And indeed, the realness of queer family has as its counterpoint the hegemonic notion of family as based in blood. While all family formations are political, queer family formations ask that we think the politics of family as an always already problematic formation. The existence of queer family, then, highlights how other family forms necessarily exceed the normative definition and practice of hegemonic family claims. Of co…
Genres of Human
The Book of Others ( Book IV)
The Book of Others (Book IV):Canadian Multiculturalism, the State, and Its Political Legacies Rinaldo Walcott (bio) The Multicultural Move to Language It is always worth reminding Canadians that when Pierre Elliott Trudeau introduced the Multiculturalism Policy to Parliament in October 1971, it was not an attempt to change the fundamental character of the modern Canadian nation-state. Rather, the policy’s intent was to manage the non-French and n…
Black gay men as sexual subjects
In this study of Black gay and bisexual men in Toronto, sexually active survey participants reported on their sexual behaviours with male partners of different ethnoracial backgrounds, and interview participants reflected on how their sexual relationships emerged in the context of race and interracial desire. Most survey participants reported sexual relationships with other Black men. Participants were more likely to be insertive with White and o…
The Challenge of Blackness
Not Simple Homophobia
Book Review| April 01 2010 “NOT SIMPLE HOMOPHOBIA”: AFRICAN SAME-SEX DESIRES, POLITICS, AND THE LIMIT OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization Neville Hoad Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xi + 187 pp. Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
The Black Aquatic
This essay argues that thinking through black diasporic life as birthed through a unique and ongoing relationship with bodies of water (sea, oceans, rivers, creeks) can and does aid in analyses of contemporary art and its engagement with black subjectivity. I am concerned with how bodies of water are foundationally formative of blackness. And secondarily I pursue how this foundational aspect of blackness is both an act of representation worth eng…
Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada
Small Axe - Number 9 (Volume 5, Number 1), March 2001
The End of Diversity
In this essay, the author suggests that diversity as an idea has reached its logical end. The essay proposes that something more radical and sustaining than diversity is now required if whiteness is to be understood as the foundation and barrier that preempts nonwhite others from the structural arrangements that currently govern human life. In arguing that diversity is over, the essay seeks to grapple with the structural limits of our desires for…
Idle No More and Black Lives Matter
The Book of Others ( Book IV)
The Book of Others (Book IV):Canadian Multiculturalism, the State, and Its Political Legacies Rinaldo Walcott (bio) The Multicultural Move to Language It is always worth reminding Canadians that when Pierre Elliott Trudeau introduced the Multiculturalism Policy to Parliament in October 1971, it was not an attempt to change the fundamental character of the modern Canadian nation-state. Rather, the policy’s intent was to manage the non-French and n…
Rhetorics of Blackness, Rhetorics of Belonging
My concern is with differences within minoritisation and the possibilities of articulating affiliation or solidarity on the grounds of differences that may not be 'resolved' but have to be worked through and worked with, causing structures of ambivalence and 'supplementary' moves. (Homi Bhabha 1998a, 40) This world divided into compartments, this world cut in two is inhabited by two different species. The originality of the colonial context is th…
Freedom Now Suite
This essay suggests that Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being calls us to attend to the limits of what freedom means for black people around the world. By reading some recent conceptual claims in black studies alongside Sharpe’s work, it seeks to demonstrate a certain theoretical cul de sac in contemporary black studies theorizations that requires further thought if we are to diligently contemplate the stakes of freedom for blac…
Sociology
Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity
The attempt to narrate and represent a coherent black masculinity in its singularity is in part what I want to respond to in this essay. But even more, I want to suggest that thinking about a range and variety of black manhoods and masculinities might provide analysts with a set of interesting refigurings of black manhood outside of its current and historical spectacularizations that offer a lens for seeing black manhood differently, and thus thi…
Inner Plantation
This essay suggests that Caribbean studies and Black studies might be constituted as twins, arguing that Blackness and Black people are the foundational instituted terms of both studies. This argument is based in the author's reading of the anglophone Caribbean and draws on Kamau Brathwaite's insights of how a psycho-poetics of thought shapes Caribbeanness
Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada; Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation
Neither Native or National
The planet's multiple crises demands new modes of thought, new political agendas and reassessments of where we have arrived. Nandita Sharma's Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020) is a book that roams the planet connecting how separation works to fashion identity claims concerning nations, citizens, migrants and natives. Sharma's profound critique of sovereignty as a mode of separation rather than one o…
Not Simple Homophobia
Book Review| April 01 2010 “NOT SIMPLE HOMOPHOBIA”: AFRICAN SAME-SEX DESIRES, POLITICS, AND THE LIMIT OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization Neville Hoad Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xi + 187 pp. Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
The New African American Studies
Book Review| June 01 2006 THE NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: Blackening Queer Studies and Sexing Black Studies Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride New York: New York University Press, 2005. xiv + 251 pp. Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 510–513. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook …
Sounds/Songs of Black Postmodernity
Pedagogical Desire and the Crisis of Knowledge
Every voice speaks to particular ways of knowing as it positions the speaker within an epistemological community. Each of our images of what constitutes knowing, and hence knowledge, is part of what structures one's subjectivity: what is valued as truth or discarded as fiction... Views of knowing tell individuals which accounts count and likewise which accounts do not count. Knowledge then, is not so much about immutable truths as it is about “hi…
Pedagogical Desire and the Crisis of Knowledge
Every voice speaks to particular ways of knowing as it positions the speaker within an epistemological community. Each of our images of what constitutes knowing, and hence knowledge, is part of what structures one's subjectivity: what is valued as truth or discarded as fiction... Views of knowing tell individuals which accounts count and likewise which accounts do not count. Knowledge then, is not so much about immutable truths as it is about “hi…
‘Out of the kumbla’
For it is certainly easier to create without answering for life, and easier to live without consideration for art. Art and life are not one, but they must become united in myself—in the unity of my answerability. (Bakhtin, 1990: 2) There is something fundamentally scary about pedagogy because pedagogy references the unknown. Despite our best authorial intentions, no guarantees mediate our private lesson plans or the public effects of the pedagogi…
Out of the kumbla
For it is certainly easier to create without answering for life, and easier to live without consideration for art. Art and life are not one, but they must become united in myself—in the unity of my answerability. (Bakhtin, 1990: 2) There is something fundamentally scary about pedagogy because pedagogy references the unknown. Despite our best authorial intentions, no guarantees mediate our private lesson plans or the public effects of the pedagogi…
Sounds/Songs of Black Postmodernity
Deceived
Toni Morrsion and Claudia Brodksy Lacour (eds.) Birth of a Nation 'Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. 418. The O.J. Simpson case is really about how we "read." Reading practices are so central to the case, that any discussion of the case without attention to how we "read" would be futile. Furthermore, it does not matter which side of the debate you stand on, your reading of the case can…
Rhetorics of Blackness, Rhetorics of Belonging
My concern is with differences within minoritisation and the possibilities of articulating affiliation or solidarity on the grounds of differences that may not be 'resolved' but have to be worked through and worked with, causing structures of ambivalence and 'supplementary' moves. (Homi Bhabha 1998a, 40) This world divided into compartments, this world cut in two is inhabited by two different species. The originality of the colonial context is th…
Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada; Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation
Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada
Small Axe - Number 9 (Volume 5, Number 1), March 2001
Outside in Black Studies
The New African American Studies
Book Review| June 01 2006 THE NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: Blackening Queer Studies and Sexing Black Studies Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride New York: New York University Press, 2005. xiv + 251 pp. Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 510–513. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook …
A Bold and Wondrous Thing
A Bold and Wondrous Thing Rinaldo Walcott (bio) In the late 1980s I was completing my undergraduate education. In those last days I was privileged to be taught by two of the best teachers I have ever had, Russell Chace and Winston Smith. From about 1988 until well into my graduate education, those two men taught me the foundations of what I know and understand about Black Diaspora expressive culture, politics, history, and its various circuits. O…
Conjuring black funk
Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity
The attempt to narrate and represent a coherent black masculinity in its singularity is in part what I want to respond to in this essay. But even more, I want to suggest that thinking about a range and variety of black manhoods and masculinities might provide analysts with a set of interesting refigurings of black manhood outside of its current and historical spectacularizations that offer a lens for seeing black manhood differently, and thus thi…
Field Notes
From March 5 to March 8, 2008 Callaloo and Tulane University welcomed a group of artists/intellectuals and African Diaspora scholars to New Orleans to engage in a broad dialogue on the present and future relations between black/African Diaspora artists/ intellectuals and scholars; between the critical and creative work or artmaking and its relational cousin the work of critical and creative engagement with the artistic texts. The endeavor was pop…
Not Simple Homophobia
Book Review| April 01 2010 “NOT SIMPLE HOMOPHOBIA”: AFRICAN SAME-SEX DESIRES, POLITICS, AND THE LIMIT OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization Neville Hoad Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xi + 187 pp. Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Black gay men as sexual subjects
In this study of Black gay and bisexual men in Toronto, sexually active survey participants reported on their sexual behaviours with male partners of different ethnoracial backgrounds, and interview participants reflected on how their sexual relationships emerged in the context of race and interracial desire. Most survey participants reported sexual relationships with other Black men. Participants were more likely to be insertive with White and o…
The Challenge of Blackness
The Book of Others ( Book IV)
The Book of Others (Book IV):Canadian Multiculturalism, the State, and Its Political Legacies Rinaldo Walcott (bio) The Multicultural Move to Language It is always worth reminding Canadians that when Pierre Elliott Trudeau introduced the Multiculturalism Policy to Parliament in October 1971, it was not an attempt to change the fundamental character of the modern Canadian nation-state. Rather, the policy’s intent was to manage the non-French and n…
Genres of Human
Still Here
Queer family is real. And indeed, the realness of queer family has as its counterpoint the hegemonic notion of family as based in blood. While all family formations are political, queer family formations ask that we think the politics of family as an always already problematic formation. The existence of queer family, then, highlights how other family forms necessarily exceed the normative definition and practice of hegemonic family claims. Of co…
Black Lives Matter, police and Pride
Idle No More and Black Lives Matter
Situating Indigenous and Black Resistance in the Global Movement Assemblage (Video Presentation)
Robin D. G. Kelley and Fred Moten in Conversation
Freedom Now Suite
This essay suggests that Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being calls us to attend to the limits of what freedom means for black people around the world. By reading some recent conceptual claims in black studies alongside Sharpe’s work, it seeks to demonstrate a certain theoretical cul de sac in contemporary black studies theorizations that requires further thought if we are to diligently contemplate the stakes of freedom for blac…
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