Salamishah Tillet
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 645907 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Salamishah Tillet |
| NOMBRES | Salamishah |
| APELLIDO | Tillet |
| FIRMA | TILLET S |
| AFILIACIONES | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
We Grew Up in This Movement
Writer and activist Salamishah Tillet and photographer and organizer Scheherazade Tillet engaged in a lively and in-depth conversation about their work to end sexual violence before and beyond #MeToo. In 2003, the Tillet sisters founded A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that empowers young people to use art to end violence against girls and women. Yet their actual organizing work began five years earlier when Scheherazade, at twenty years old, began …
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Still Matter
Make Revolution Irresistible
I was introduced to the term public intellectual almost twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate in a literary course on African American music taught by the cultural critic Farah Jasmine Griffin. The class conversations began with readings of jazz and hip-hop artists as “organic intellectuals” in the sense developed by Antonio Gramsci. We quickly moved to the debates sparked by Edward Said's Representations of the Intellectual (1993) and to …
Mother Tongues & Masters of Words
Mother Tongues & Masters of WordsCallaloo Across the Atlantic Salamishah Tillet (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Salamishah Tillet Michael K. Taylor © 2013 [End Page 557] For whom are we doing what we do when we do literary criticism? I can only speak for myself. But how I write and what I write is done in order to save my own life. —Barbara Christian, “Race for Theory” When the late Barbara Christian penned this famous essay, she…
Strange Sampling
This essay examines how contemporary hip-hop artists, as diverse as Cassidy, Common, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, and Kanye West, invoke Nina Simone as both a heuristic and musical material that recalls a particularly radical moment of American culture and simultaneously undergoes transformation as they cite her in response to the aesthetic and political forces of their times. Through their songs, Simone emerges as both a compelling singer and a cul…
Sites of Slavery
The Romance of Ethiopia
The Romance of Ethiopia:A Critical Introduction Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), Salamishah Tillet (bio), and Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis (bio) Appraising the literature, life, and culture of Ethiopia is a daunting undertaking. Like its history, Ethiopia's literary and cultural traditions are so vast, and so rich, that they exceed the grasp of a single volume. Indeed, as we embarked on editing this special issue, we were well aware of the challenges in repres…
In the Shadow of the Castle
"In The Shadow of the Castle: (Trans) Nationalism, African-American Tourism, and Gorée Island" argues that the late twentieth-century "Back to Africa" discourse departs from the nineteenth-century emigrationist and mid-twentieth-century expatriate "Back to Africa" movements; the contemporary discourse predicates itself more on a commemoration of slavery's past than on creating a programmatic solution for the future and establishing an alternative…
Black Girls in Paris
Black Girls in Paris:Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, and French Racial Dystopias Salamishah Tillet (bio) My Paris is the enchantment of wandering through an old museum, hand in hand with an old friend from Hollywood, lost in the wonder of Rodin. My Paris is the magic of looking up at the Champs-Élysées from the Place de Concorde and being warmed by the merry madness of lights. . . . Whenever I encountered racism in any form, it was the exception r…
At the Full and Change of the Moon (review)
In the last decade, several Caribbean and African-American writers have written neo-slave narratives. Neo-slave narratives are novels based on the perspective of a fictional slave protagonist. Like its slave narrative literary ancestor, the neo-slave narrative uses the leitmotifs of resistance and freedom; however, unlike the sentimental and biblical prose of the slave narrative, the neo-slave narrative features post-modernist strategies of flash…
Fragmented Silhouettes
The intersection of racism and sexism within the African American community has privileged the bodies of Black men over the bodies of Black women. Oftentimes, violent crimes against Black women become issues of African American racial division rather than of solidarity. I propose that we change our racial schema, in which issues of police brutality and racial profiling overshadow the continual trauma of Black women's bodies by Black men. I sugges…
In the Shadow of the Castle
"In The Shadow of the Castle: (Trans) Nationalism, African-American Tourism, and Gorée Island" argues that the late twentieth-century "Back to Africa" discourse departs from the nineteenth-century emigrationist and mid-twentieth-century expatriate "Back to Africa" movements; the contemporary discourse predicates itself more on a commemoration of slavery's past than on creating a programmatic solution for the future and establishing an alternative…
Strange Sampling
This essay examines how contemporary hip-hop artists, as diverse as Cassidy, Common, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, and Kanye West, invoke Nina Simone as both a heuristic and musical material that recalls a particularly radical moment of American culture and simultaneously undergoes transformation as they cite her in response to the aesthetic and political forces of their times. Through their songs, Simone emerges as both a compelling singer and a cul…
Fragmented Silhouettes
The intersection of racism and sexism within the African American community has privileged the bodies of Black men over the bodies of Black women. Oftentimes, violent crimes against Black women become issues of African American racial division rather than of solidarity. I propose that we change our racial schema, in which issues of police brutality and racial profiling overshadow the continual trauma of Black women's bodies by Black men. I sugges…
The Romance of Ethiopia
The Romance of Ethiopia:A Critical Introduction Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), Salamishah Tillet (bio), and Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis (bio) Appraising the literature, life, and culture of Ethiopia is a daunting undertaking. Like its history, Ethiopia's literary and cultural traditions are so vast, and so rich, that they exceed the grasp of a single volume. Indeed, as we embarked on editing this special issue, we were well aware of the challenges in repres…
Black Girls in Paris
Black Girls in Paris:Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, and French Racial Dystopias Salamishah Tillet (bio) My Paris is the enchantment of wandering through an old museum, hand in hand with an old friend from Hollywood, lost in the wonder of Rodin. My Paris is the magic of looking up at the Champs-Élysées from the Place de Concorde and being warmed by the merry madness of lights. . . . Whenever I encountered racism in any form, it was the exception r…
Fragmented Silhouettes
The intersection of racism and sexism within the African American community has privileged the bodies of Black men over the bodies of Black women. Oftentimes, violent crimes against Black women become issues of African American racial division rather than of solidarity. I propose that we change our racial schema, in which issues of police brutality and racial profiling overshadow the continual trauma of Black women's bodies by Black men. I sugges…
At the Full and Change of the Moon (review)
In the last decade, several Caribbean and African-American writers have written neo-slave narratives. Neo-slave narratives are novels based on the perspective of a fictional slave protagonist. Like its slave narrative literary ancestor, the neo-slave narrative uses the leitmotifs of resistance and freedom; however, unlike the sentimental and biblical prose of the slave narrative, the neo-slave narrative features post-modernist strategies of flash…
In the Shadow of the Castle
"In The Shadow of the Castle: (Trans) Nationalism, African-American Tourism, and Gorée Island" argues that the late twentieth-century "Back to Africa" discourse departs from the nineteenth-century emigrationist and mid-twentieth-century expatriate "Back to Africa" movements; the contemporary discourse predicates itself more on a commemoration of slavery's past than on creating a programmatic solution for the future and establishing an alternative…
Black Girls in Paris
Black Girls in Paris:Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, and French Racial Dystopias Salamishah Tillet (bio) My Paris is the enchantment of wandering through an old museum, hand in hand with an old friend from Hollywood, lost in the wonder of Rodin. My Paris is the magic of looking up at the Champs-Élysées from the Place de Concorde and being warmed by the merry madness of lights. . . . Whenever I encountered racism in any form, it was the exception r…
The Romance of Ethiopia
The Romance of Ethiopia:A Critical Introduction Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), Salamishah Tillet (bio), and Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis (bio) Appraising the literature, life, and culture of Ethiopia is a daunting undertaking. Like its history, Ethiopia's literary and cultural traditions are so vast, and so rich, that they exceed the grasp of a single volume. Indeed, as we embarked on editing this special issue, we were well aware of the challenges in repres…
Sites of Slavery
Mother Tongues & Masters of Words
Mother Tongues & Masters of WordsCallaloo Across the Atlantic Salamishah Tillet (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Salamishah Tillet Michael K. Taylor © 2013 [End Page 557] For whom are we doing what we do when we do literary criticism? I can only speak for myself. But how I write and what I write is done in order to save my own life. —Barbara Christian, “Race for Theory” When the late Barbara Christian penned this famous essay, she…
Strange Sampling
This essay examines how contemporary hip-hop artists, as diverse as Cassidy, Common, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, and Kanye West, invoke Nina Simone as both a heuristic and musical material that recalls a particularly radical moment of American culture and simultaneously undergoes transformation as they cite her in response to the aesthetic and political forces of their times. Through their songs, Simone emerges as both a compelling singer and a cul…
Make Revolution Irresistible
I was introduced to the term public intellectual almost twenty years ago when I was an undergraduate in a literary course on African American music taught by the cultural critic Farah Jasmine Griffin. The class conversations began with readings of jazz and hip-hop artists as “organic intellectuals” in the sense developed by Antonio Gramsci. We quickly moved to the debates sparked by Edward Said's Representations of the Intellectual (1993) and to …
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Still Matter
We Grew Up in This Movement
Writer and activist Salamishah Tillet and photographer and organizer Scheherazade Tillet engaged in a lively and in-depth conversation about their work to end sexual violence before and beyond #MeToo. In 2003, the Tillet sisters founded A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that empowers young people to use art to end violence against girls and women. Yet their actual organizing work began five years earlier when Scheherazade, at twenty years old, began …
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