Kevin Quashie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Quashie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Quashie |
| SIGNATURE | QUASHIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Culture |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Some words on black methods
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsider…
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
What would it mean to consider black aliveness, especially given how readilyand literally-blackness is indexed to death?To behold such aliveness, we have to imagine a black world . . .we have to imagine a black world so as to surpass the everywhere and everyway of black death, of blackness that is understood only through such a vocabulary.This equation of blackness and death is indisputable and enduring, surely, but if we want to try to conceptua…
Black Lyric Privacy
For the Black person, there is no privacy to be had in the scene and instance of the racist act. That is, a defining terror of racist violence, at least as such violence is rendered in language or
A Flash of Life and Light
The Sovereignty of Quiet
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet , Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carl…
Queer. Caribbean. Miami. Boy
Quashie reflects on growing up Black
To Be (a) One
In the exploration of what it is to be human, coupling is ever a problem; coupling disturbs or at least complicates the conceptualization of being, the philosophical deliberation of the one. This troubling is amplified for the black female subject, whose access to ideological oneness is rendered impossible in the logics of antiblackness and patriarchy. Using Audre Lorde’s writing, especially her theorizing of difference and audacity in The Cancer…
La souveraineté du recueillement
Kevin Quashie livre dans cette introduction à La souveraineté du recueillement (2012) une analyse précise et féconde du concept de quiet (« calme », « silence », « tranquillité », « recueillement ») qu'il s'intéresse à appliquer à la culture afro-américaine. L'article agit comme un plaidoyer pour une reconsidération : l'image de la négritude protestataire ne peut être la seule image des personnes noires, il y a une vie sous la contestation et sou…
The Trouble with Publicness
The Trouble with Publicness:Toward a Theory of Black Quiet Kevin Everod Quashie (bio) The story of this moment has been told many times: it was the 1968 Olympics in a volatile Mexico City, and two male athletes, both black Americans, make an emblematic gesture during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race. One of them, Tommie Smith, has won the race while the other, John Carlos, was third. As the U. S. national anthem plays, both men punctuate…
New Bones
The Other Dancer As Self
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Other Dancer As Self: Girlfriend Selfhood in Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's The Color Purple Kevin Everod Quashie Kevin Everod Quashie kevin everod quashie is an assistant professor at Smith College in Afro-American Studies. He is co-editor of the anthology New Bones: Contemporary Writers in Black America, as well as author of articles published in Callaloo and Journal x. He is currently completing…
On the Cultural Studies Threshold
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 1, Winter 2001
Mining Magic, Mining Dreams
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997
The Trouble with Publicness
The Trouble with Publicness:Toward a Theory of Black Quiet Kevin Everod Quashie (bio) The story of this moment has been told many times: it was the 1968 Olympics in a volatile Mexico City, and two male athletes, both black Americans, make an emblematic gesture during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race. One of them, Tommie Smith, has won the race while the other, John Carlos, was third. As the U. S. national anthem plays, both men punctuate…
Some words on black methods
Mining Magic, Mining Dreams
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997
The Other Dancer As Self
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Other Dancer As Self: Girlfriend Selfhood in Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's The Color Purple Kevin Everod Quashie Kevin Everod Quashie kevin everod quashie is an assistant professor at Smith College in Afro-American Studies. He is co-editor of the anthology New Bones: Contemporary Writers in Black America, as well as author of articles published in Callaloo and Journal x. He is currently completing…
On the Cultural Studies Threshold
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 1, Winter 2001
New Bones
The Trouble with Publicness
The Trouble with Publicness:Toward a Theory of Black Quiet Kevin Everod Quashie (bio) The story of this moment has been told many times: it was the 1968 Olympics in a volatile Mexico City, and two male athletes, both black Americans, make an emblematic gesture during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race. One of them, Tommie Smith, has won the race while the other, John Carlos, was third. As the U. S. national anthem plays, both men punctuate…
To Be (a) One
In the exploration of what it is to be human, coupling is ever a problem; coupling disturbs or at least complicates the conceptualization of being, the philosophical deliberation of the one. This troubling is amplified for the black female subject, whose access to ideological oneness is rendered impossible in the logics of antiblackness and patriarchy. Using Audre Lorde’s writing, especially her theorizing of difference and audacity in The Cancer…
La souveraineté du recueillement
Kevin Quashie livre dans cette introduction à La souveraineté du recueillement (2012) une analyse précise et féconde du concept de quiet (« calme », « silence », « tranquillité », « recueillement ») qu'il s'intéresse à appliquer à la culture afro-américaine. L'article agit comme un plaidoyer pour une reconsidération : l'image de la négritude protestataire ne peut être la seule image des personnes noires, il y a une vie sous la contestation et sou…
The Sovereignty of Quiet
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet , Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carl…
Queer. Caribbean. Miami. Boy
Quashie reflects on growing up Black
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
What would it mean to consider black aliveness, especially given how readilyand literally-blackness is indexed to death?To behold such aliveness, we have to imagine a black world . . .we have to imagine a black world so as to surpass the everywhere and everyway of black death, of blackness that is understood only through such a vocabulary.This equation of blackness and death is indisputable and enduring, surely, but if we want to try to conceptua…
Black Lyric Privacy
For the Black person, there is no privacy to be had in the scene and instance of the racist act. That is, a defining terror of racist violence, at least as such violence is rendered in language or
A Flash of Life and Light
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsider…
Some words on black methods
Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)