Paulla A Ebron
Biographic Data
| ID | 122186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulla A Ebron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulla A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebron |
| SIGNATURE | EBRON P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feminism and the Anthropocene: Assessing the Field through Recent Books
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
Writing and rhythm: Call and response with Anna Tsing and Paulla Ebron
Performing Africa
The jali --a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried …
Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans . Keyan G. Tomaselli
The Political Life of Nature
Continental riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts
Africa often comes to the attention of international audiences through the circulation of various musical traditions. Music is often configured as a universal language thus erasing the specific projects of performers, audiences, and the music industry in constituting the meaning of a given musical form. This erasure leaves music as just an empty sign of globalization. Using the concepts ‘imagined communities' and ‘structures of feeling’, the aim …
Latinos, Inc: The Marketing and Making of a People
Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of. People. Arlene Davila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 302 pp., photographs, notes, references, index
Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere
Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere. Jean-Loup Amselle. Translated by Claudia Royal. Stanford. CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. 207 pp
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women . Noliwe M. Rooks Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power . Colleen Ballerino Cohen , Richard Wilk , Beverly Stoeltje
Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics
In this article, I ask how a site of history gets made into a successful tourist destination of a remembered past. I focus on a U.S. corporate-sponsored homeland tour to Senegal and the Gambia (the region of Roots) aimed toward commemorating sites especially momentous for African American tourists. Through the lens of global "scapes," I analyze the multiple aspects necessary to create and sustain this place of meaning. Of interest are the ways in…
Enchanted Memories of Regional Difference in African American Culture
Julie Dash's film Daughters of the Dust offers a starting point for an exploration of the construction of African American communal memories. Self-consciousness about such memory making can illuminate the historically generated roles of gender, regionalism, and urbanrural differences in both popular and scholarly understandings of African American culture.This is not just an issue for African American studies, however. A number of key dilemmas in…
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
From Allegories of Identity to Sites of Dialogue
Diaspora 4:2 1995 From Allegories of Identity to Sites of Dialogue Paulla Ebron Stanford University Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing University of California, Santa Cruz In the last decade, a set of impassioned debates on race and representation have made minority writing an important national political arena. At the heart of the issue is the right to speak and to be heard in US American politics: Whose voices will be counted as "the American public"? In th…
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Emily Martin
Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics
In this article, I ask how a site of history gets made into a successful tourist destination of a remembered past. I focus on a U.S. corporate-sponsored homeland tour to Senegal and the Gambia (the region of Roots) aimed toward commemorating sites especially momentous for African American tourists. Through the lens of global "scapes," I analyze the multiple aspects necessary to create and sustain this place of meaning. Of interest are the ways in…
Enchanted Memories of Regional Difference in African American Culture
Julie Dash's film Daughters of the Dust offers a starting point for an exploration of the construction of African American communal memories. Self-consciousness about such memory making can illuminate the historically generated roles of gender, regionalism, and urbanrural differences in both popular and scholarly understandings of African American culture.This is not just an issue for African American studies, however. A number of key dilemmas in…
Feminism and the Anthropocene: Assessing the Field through Recent Books
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
Writing and rhythm: Call and response with Anna Tsing and Paulla Ebron
Performing Africa
The jali --a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried …
Continental riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts
Africa often comes to the attention of international audiences through the circulation of various musical traditions. Music is often configured as a universal language thus erasing the specific projects of performers, audiences, and the music industry in constituting the meaning of a given musical form. This erasure leaves music as just an empty sign of globalization. Using the concepts ‘imagined communities' and ‘structures of feeling’, the aim …
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Emily Martin
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
From Allegories of Identity to Sites of Dialogue
Diaspora 4:2 1995 From Allegories of Identity to Sites of Dialogue Paulla Ebron Stanford University Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing University of California, Santa Cruz In the last decade, a set of impassioned debates on race and representation have made minority writing an important national political arena. At the heart of the issue is the right to speak and to be heard in US American politics: Whose voices will be counted as "the American public"? In th…
Enchanted Memories of Regional Difference in African American Culture
Julie Dash's film Daughters of the Dust offers a starting point for an exploration of the construction of African American communal memories. Self-consciousness about such memory making can illuminate the historically generated roles of gender, regionalism, and urbanrural differences in both popular and scholarly understandings of African American culture.This is not just an issue for African American studies, however. A number of key dilemmas in…
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women . Noliwe M. Rooks Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power . Colleen Ballerino Cohen , Richard Wilk , Beverly Stoeltje
Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics
In this article, I ask how a site of history gets made into a successful tourist destination of a remembered past. I focus on a U.S. corporate-sponsored homeland tour to Senegal and the Gambia (the region of Roots) aimed toward commemorating sites especially momentous for African American tourists. Through the lens of global "scapes," I analyze the multiple aspects necessary to create and sustain this place of meaning. Of interest are the ways in…
Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere
Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere. Jean-Loup Amselle. Translated by Claudia Royal. Stanford. CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. 207 pp
Latinos, Inc: The Marketing and Making of a People
Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of. People. Arlene Davila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 302 pp., photographs, notes, references, index
Continental riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts
Africa often comes to the attention of international audiences through the circulation of various musical traditions. Music is often configured as a universal language thus erasing the specific projects of performers, audiences, and the music industry in constituting the meaning of a given musical form. This erasure leaves music as just an empty sign of globalization. Using the concepts ‘imagined communities' and ‘structures of feeling’, the aim …
The Political Life of Nature
Performing Africa
The jali --a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried …
Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans . Keyan G. Tomaselli
Writing and rhythm: Call and response with Anna Tsing and Paulla Ebron
Feminism and the Anthropocene: Assessing the Field through Recent Books
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
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