Jean Allman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90614 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jean Allman |
| NOMBRES | Jean |
| APELLIDO | Allman |
| FIRMA | ALLMAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3410-4839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 342 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X
On 10 May 1964, on his return trip to the United States from Mecca, Malcolm X landed in Accra for a weeklong visit to the capital of the ‘Black Star of Africa’. This high-profile visit, which took place only nine months before Malcolm X's assassination, has assumed an important place in biographical accounts of his life, as key to understanding his religious and political transformation or ‘conversion’. Yet we know surprisingly little about how M…
HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968
Why is African Studies in North America dominated by white scholars? In this reflection piece, the 2018 president of the African Studies Association revisits the organization's sixty-year history, exposing the processes by which white privilege was hardwired into African Studies at the organization's founding in 1957 and then secured first by the displacement of the much older tradition of African American scholarship on Africa and second by the …
The Fate of All of Us
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
I first met Ivor Wilks in 1976, when I appeared in his office doorway—a befuddled, nervous, and apprehensive undergraduate—with a rather vague and naïve idea about applying for an undergraduate research grant to study in Ghana. In retrospect, Ivor had no reason to take me seriously and probably
Phantoms of the Archive
WEST AFRICAN nation of Ghana marked five years of independence from British colonial rule, the country's most popular newspaper, the Daily Graphic, introduced readers to yet another in a long list of high-profile international visitors.This visitor, however, was not the usual diplomat, artistic performer, or anticolonial freedom fighter.A prominent headline and accompanying photo announced her as "The Woman Who Dares the Heavens." 1 And who was t…
The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe
Hannah Kudjoe was Ghana's leading woman nationalist in the struggle for independence from British colonial rule in the 1940s and 1950s. As Ghana celebrated a half century of independence in 2007 and the heroes of that struggle were publicly honored by street naming ceremonies, the unveiling of statues, and historical reenactments, Hannah Kudjoe's name was nowhere to be found. Who was Hannah Kudjoe and how could such a high-profile, formidable, an…
Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom
What is often missing from historical reflections on Pan-Africanism, African nationalism, and movements for independence is the relationship between struggles for the liberation of the continent from colonial rule and pacifist movements in opposition to nuclear armament. This article reconstructs the struggle against “nuclear imperialism” that emerged out of the Pan-African struggle for freedom in the late 1950s and early 1960s through the import…
Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration
This essay discusses the syllabus for "Gender and Colonialism," a graduate seminar we have offered at the University of Illinois, both jointly and individually, over the course of the past six years. We recount its conception and execution as a feminist collaborative process by historians trained in different fields-Burton identifies as a British empire historian, Allman as an Africanist-as we have grappled with the limits and possibilities of th…
Fashioning Africa
Reveals the intimate con-nections between politics, power, and clothing.
Women in African Colonial Histories
Women in African Colonial Histories
Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, eds. Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 338 pp. Photographs. Notes. Maps. Index. $54.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. Reaching into the interior spaces of African social life, the authors of the thirteen chapters in this volume of pathbreaking research reveal the lengths to which the agents of colonialism were willing to extend their authority. great distinct…
Destination Globalization? Women, Gender and Comparative Colonial Histories in the New Millenium
Destination Globalization? Women, Gender and Comparative Colonial Histories in the New Millenium" Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton Among the most enduring debates in feminist historiography as we head into the new millennium is the question of what the right and proper relationship is, and should be, between studies which focus on women and those which privilege gender as a category of historical analysis. Although this may come as a surprise to…
Women in African Colonial Histories
This volume is a good example of what can be learned from and about a previously mute and oppressed constituency: native women in colonized sub-Saharan Africa. As is common in anthologies, the quality of the essays is uneven, although (or because?) the editors conscientiously strove for breadth in terms of topics, regions, and nationality of the colonial powers. The introduction neatly summarizes the theme and something of the evolution of the vo…
"England Swings Like a Pendulum Do?...." Africanist Reflections on Cannadine's Retro-Empire
I Will Not Eat Stone
By way of introduction the world to which they were born - women's life stories and the problem of colonial chronologies it's mine and it's ours are not the same thing - marrying and marriage on a shifting colonial terrain sika ye mogya/money is blood? - transformations in the domestic economy of child-rearing serving a man is wasted labour - women's conjugal strategies in a world of cash and cocoa making proper mothers and dutiful wives - chiefs…
Women in African Colonial Histories
Our Days Dwindle
I Will Not Eat Stone
I Will Not Eat Stone
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
I Will Not Eat Stone
Be(com)ing Asante, be(com)ing Akan
The issues tentatively explored in this chapter1 — gender, identity and the colonial encounter in Asante — can be framed by two extraordinary, though very different, photographs, taken approximately forty years apart. The first (Figure 5.1) is of the king of Asante, Asantehene Agyeman Prempe I, and the Queenmother, Asantehernaa Yaa Kyaa, seated with a small group of retainers. The picture was taken in Elmina shortly after their arrest in Kumasi b…
Introduction
This short article introduces a selection of papers originally presented at the conference, “Africans Meeting Missionaries: Rethinking Colonial Encounters,” held at the University of Minnesota in May 1997. Until quite recently much of the scholarship on missions in Africa tended to reproduce early eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century images of the colossal, all‐powerful missionary. Whether celebrated as an heroic, civilizing agent in mission accoun…
Narrating Our Pasts
Kwame Nkrumah, African Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa
IntroductionOn February 24, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, whose Convention People's Party led Ghana to independence in 1957, was deposed in a military coup. Over the next decade, scholars debated the coup's significance,1 but their focus was almost exclusively on politics: on parties, governance, and the political economy of development. Although four and a half decades have passed since Nkrumah's ouster, historians, for their part, have not yet taken up …
Rounding up Spinsters
Between 1929 and 1932 in a number of villages and towns throughout rural Asante, chiefs were ordering the arrest of all women who were over the age of fifteen and not married. A woman was detained until she spoke the name of a man whom she would agree to marry and the man in question paid a release fee. If the man refused, he too was imprisoned or fined up to £5. If he agreed, he paid a small marriage fee to the woman's parents and one bottle of …
Women in African Colonial Histories
The Quills of the Porcupine
Women in African Colonial Histories
Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, eds. Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 338 pp. Photographs. Notes. Maps. Index. $54.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. Reaching into the interior spaces of African social life, the authors of the thirteen chapters in this volume of pathbreaking research reveal the lengths to which the agents of colonialism were willing to extend their authority. great distinct…
The Quills of the Porcupine
Bearing the traditional symbol of the Asante nation, the porcupine, the National Liberation Movement (NLM) stormed onto the Gold Coast's political stage in 1954. The movement mounted one of the first and most significant campaigns to decentralise political power in an Africa undergoing the process of decolonisation. This is a case study in the social history of African politics. Situated within the context of so much theoretical and historical li…
HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968
Why is African Studies in North America dominated by white scholars? In this reflection piece, the 2018 president of the African Studies Association revisits the organization's sixty-year history, exposing the processes by which white privilege was hardwired into African Studies at the organization's founding in 1957 and then secured first by the displacement of the much older tradition of African American scholarship on Africa and second by the …
The Youngmen and the Porcupine
This article examines the origins, background, composition and policies of the National Liberation Movement, a mass political organization founded in Asante in September, 1954. The central aim of the NLM was to advance Asante claims for self-determination and to oppose the CPP in their advocacy of a constitutional settlement with the British colonial government–a settlement that would bring about a unitary government in an independent Gold Coast …
Fathering, mothering and making sense ofntamoba
This article explores the changing dynamics of child-rearing in Asante (Ghana) through the problematic concept ofntamoba. In the historical record, and in popular memory,ntamobahas survived in a number of forms-as a marriage payment, as a rite connected with birthing and naming and as an indemnification paid to a father by a child's matrikin to signify the termination of a father's rights in that child. This article seeks to historicise and expla…
Making Mothers
Journal Article Making Mothers: Missionaries, Medical Officers and Women's Work in Colonial Asante, 1924–1945 Get access Jean Allman Jean Allman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1994, Pages 23–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/38.1.23 Published: 01 October 1994
The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe
Hannah Kudjoe was Ghana's leading woman nationalist in the struggle for independence from British colonial rule in the 1940s and 1950s. As Ghana celebrated a half century of independence in 2007 and the heroes of that struggle were publicly honored by street naming ceremonies, the unveiling of statues, and historical reenactments, Hannah Kudjoe's name was nowhere to be found. Who was Hannah Kudjoe and how could such a high-profile, formidable, an…
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom
What is often missing from historical reflections on Pan-Africanism, African nationalism, and movements for independence is the relationship between struggles for the liberation of the continent from colonial rule and pacifist movements in opposition to nuclear armament. This article reconstructs the struggle against “nuclear imperialism” that emerged out of the Pan-African struggle for freedom in the late 1950s and early 1960s through the import…
I Will Not Eat Stone
I Will Not Eat Stone
And Still They Dance
The Youngmen and the Porcupine’
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Hewers of Wood, Carriers of Water
The publication of Michael Crowder's “Whose Dream Was It Anyway?” in January 1987 marked the opening of what promises to be a challenging era of revision and re-evaluation in African historiography. With the benefit of three decades of historical hindsight and armed with recently declassified colonial documentation, historians are beginning to grapple with the complexities of national struggle in late colonial society, beginning with Ghana's marc…
Of ‘Spinsters,’‘Concubines’ and ‘Wicked Women’
Destination Globalization? Women, Gender and Comparative Colonial Histories in the New Millenium
Destination Globalization? Women, Gender and Comparative Colonial Histories in the New Millenium" Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton Among the most enduring debates in feminist historiography as we head into the new millennium is the question of what the right and proper relationship is, and should be, between studies which focus on women and those which privilege gender as a category of historical analysis. Although this may come as a surprise to…
Introduction
This short article introduces a selection of papers originally presented at the conference, “Africans Meeting Missionaries: Rethinking Colonial Encounters,” held at the University of Minnesota in May 1997. Until quite recently much of the scholarship on missions in Africa tended to reproduce early eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century images of the colossal, all‐powerful missionary. Whether celebrated as an heroic, civilizing agent in mission accoun…
Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X
On 10 May 1964, on his return trip to the United States from Mecca, Malcolm X landed in Accra for a weeklong visit to the capital of the ‘Black Star of Africa’. This high-profile visit, which took place only nine months before Malcolm X's assassination, has assumed an important place in biographical accounts of his life, as key to understanding his religious and political transformation or ‘conversion’. Yet we know surprisingly little about how M…
Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration
This essay discusses the syllabus for "Gender and Colonialism," a graduate seminar we have offered at the University of Illinois, both jointly and individually, over the course of the past six years. We recount its conception and execution as a feminist collaborative process by historians trained in different fields-Burton identifies as a British empire historian, Allman as an Africanist-as we have grappled with the limits and possibilities of th…
Studies in the African Diaspora
And Still They Dance
The Youngmen and the Porcupine
This article examines the origins, background, composition and policies of the National Liberation Movement, a mass political organization founded in Asante in September, 1954. The central aim of the NLM was to advance Asante claims for self-determination and to oppose the CPP in their advocacy of a constitutional settlement with the British colonial government–a settlement that would bring about a unitary government in an independent Gold Coast …
Studies in the African Diaspora
Of ‘Spinsters,’‘Concubines’ and ‘Wicked Women’
The Youngmen and the Porcupine’
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hewers of Wood, Carriers of Water
The publication of Michael Crowder's “Whose Dream Was It Anyway?” in January 1987 marked the opening of what promises to be a challenging era of revision and re-evaluation in African historiography. With the benefit of three decades of historical hindsight and armed with recently declassified colonial documentation, historians are beginning to grapple with the complexities of national struggle in late colonial society, beginning with Ghana's marc…
Joe Appiah
Making Mothers
Journal Article Making Mothers: Missionaries, Medical Officers and Women's Work in Colonial Asante, 1924–1945 Get access Jean Allman Jean Allman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1994, Pages 23–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/38.1.23 Published: 01 October 1994
The Quills of the Porcupine
The Quills of the Porcupine
Bearing the traditional symbol of the Asante nation, the porcupine, the National Liberation Movement (NLM) stormed onto the Gold Coast's political stage in 1954. The movement mounted one of the first and most significant campaigns to decentralise political power in an Africa undergoing the process of decolonisation. This is a case study in the social history of African politics. Situated within the context of so much theoretical and historical li…
The Vampire State in Africa
Rounding up Spinsters
Between 1929 and 1932 in a number of villages and towns throughout rural Asante, chiefs were ordering the arrest of all women who were over the age of fifteen and not married. A woman was detained until she spoke the name of a man whom she would agree to marry and the man in question paid a release fee. If the man refused, he too was imprisoned or fined up to £5. If he agreed, he paid a small marriage fee to the woman's parents and one bottle of …
Onions Are My Husband
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics.Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wh…
The Quills of the Porcupine
Narrating Our Pasts
Fathering, mothering and making sense ofntamoba
This article explores the changing dynamics of child-rearing in Asante (Ghana) through the problematic concept ofntamoba. In the historical record, and in popular memory,ntamobahas survived in a number of forms-as a marriage payment, as a rite connected with birthing and naming and as an indemnification paid to a father by a child's matrikin to signify the termination of a father's rights in that child. This article seeks to historicise and expla…
Introduction
This short article introduces a selection of papers originally presented at the conference, “Africans Meeting Missionaries: Rethinking Colonial Encounters,” held at the University of Minnesota in May 1997. Until quite recently much of the scholarship on missions in Africa tended to reproduce early eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century images of the colossal, all‐powerful missionary. Whether celebrated as an heroic, civilizing agent in mission accoun…
Be(com)ing Asante, be(com)ing Akan
The issues tentatively explored in this chapter1 — gender, identity and the colonial encounter in Asante — can be framed by two extraordinary, though very different, photographs, taken approximately forty years apart. The first (Figure 5.1) is of the king of Asante, Asantehene Agyeman Prempe I, and the Queenmother, Asantehernaa Yaa Kyaa, seated with a small group of retainers. The picture was taken in Elmina shortly after their arrest in Kumasi b…
I Will Not Eat Stone
I Will Not Eat Stone
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
I Will Not Eat Stone
Women in African Colonial Histories
This volume is a good example of what can be learned from and about a previously mute and oppressed constituency: native women in colonized sub-Saharan Africa. As is common in anthologies, the quality of the essays is uneven, although (or because?) the editors conscientiously strove for breadth in terms of topics, regions, and nationality of the colonial powers. The introduction neatly summarizes the theme and something of the evolution of the vo…
"England Swings Like a Pendulum Do?...." Africanist Reflections on Cannadine's Retro-Empire
I Will Not Eat Stone
By way of introduction the world to which they were born - women's life stories and the problem of colonial chronologies it's mine and it's ours are not the same thing - marrying and marriage on a shifting colonial terrain sika ye mogya/money is blood? - transformations in the domestic economy of child-rearing serving a man is wasted labour - women's conjugal strategies in a world of cash and cocoa making proper mothers and dutiful wives - chiefs…
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