A Durham
Biographic Data
| ID | 17272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Durham |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Durham |
| SIGNATURE | DURHAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7470-2481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Homing performance: A Black feminism roundtable
In this essay, we engage in a roundtable discussion to explore how we each home Black feminist performance in our work. We offer “homing” as an organizing concept. It does dual work. First, homing recalls a placemaking practice or a praxis of becoming and belonging using the knowing-doing body to create, disrupt, or transform space. Second, homing denotes a return to radical joy and make-do pragmatism rooted in Black feminism that relies on the k…
Bellied in Bahia
The Stories We Tell: Black Women's Narratives of Agency, (Dis)Respect, and Resistance During Prenatal Care
More than 30% of Black women report experiencing disrespect and mistreatment, such as being dismissed, ignored, or verbally abused, and up to 40% endure racism during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Epidemiological studies of disrespectful care are beneficial to understanding the scope of the problem but fall short of exploring how mistreatment can reproduce historical harm and function to control, coerce, and render Black women invisible during …
Quarantined across borders: Theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing
Embodied transnationalism is characterized by intimate experiences of human-made political borders that define, limit, and restrict flows of the “Other.” In the Quarantined Across Borders collection, contributors from immigrant and diasporic backgrounds address the material and discursive differences in how they experience the pandemic in terms of a public health crisis and public policy response that intersects racialized gender, class, citizens…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Florida is a site of critical inquiry and figures prominently in the US American imaginary. The Sunshine State sets the stage for broader conversations about cultural difference, climate change, and participatory democracy. Contributors to this special issue apply the canonical circuit of culture model to address the interrelated nature of culture and power. They provide methodologically thick, fleshy interpretive analyses that privilege experien…
Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring
The strongBlackwoman (SBW; Morgan, 1999) is a hip hop generation cultural script strategically performed by Black women to project authority, competency, and togetherness. It acts as psychic armor to shield against the deadly daily dagger of White heteropatriarchy in the academy. The author recites two indelible moments when she engages as mentor to narratively stage unmasking. Each moment provides a pedagogical opportunity to reimagine so-called…
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
White folks: Race and identity in rural America
On Collards 1
Durham describes autoethnography as a spiritual act of political self-determination and reclamation in a narrative that privileges the matrifocal ritual of cooking collards. As a site of creative, intellectual, and political production, Durham uses the kitchen to connect to the living memories of her mothers, broader Southern Black American culture, and black feminist thought. She also uses foodways to link the lived experiences of women of Afric…
Class Formation: Beyoncé in Music Video Production
Beyonce is an image icon who presents three different identities in music videos: the singular self, the hybrid self, and the integrated self. Her representations call attention to class performances of racialized gender and sexuality by Black women. Drawing from hip-hop feminism, the author discusses how the singer's shift in representation signaled a shift in the cultural criticism produced about Beyoncé within a ten-year period
Departures in Black Sexualities
Within communication studies, a central inquiry area of African American studies in the exploration of controlling images or power-laden stereotypes of racialized sexuality as they relate to systems of inequality. From historical caricatures of the stud and jezebel used to justify racial apartheid to contemporary images of the hip hop THOT, homo-thug, and video vixen, there is an extensive body of transdisciplinary work that fleshes out how black…
Kindred Narratives
Durham reinterprets home and reimagines the storied lives of black women by fusing her experience with those described by author Robin M. Boylorn in Sweetwater. Boylorn privileges African diasporic storytelling traditions, such as orality. Durham employs them and provides a complementary performance narrative to recount Southern black girlhood in Sweetwater NC, and Tidewater, VA
Kindred Narratives: Reflections of Southern Black Orality in Sweetwater
Durham reinterprets home and reimagines the storied lives of Black women by fusing her experience with those described by author Robin Boylorn in Sweetwater. Boylorn privileges African diasporic storytelling traditions, such as orality. Durham employs them and provides a complementary performance narrative to recount southern Black girlhood in Sweetwater (North Carolina) and Tidewater (Virginia
Introducing the Discussion and One Another
Over a month-long period, the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication hosted an online discussion among 11 intercultural scholars across and outside of the discipline in response to four key questions. Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Rona Halualani, facilitated the discussion and introduced the question prompts. The goal was to create a vibrant, interactive dialogue about definitional framings of intercultural scholarship and their views of…
Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us
In order to engage in our larger discussion, we needed to share our definitions, framings, and theorizings of what “intercultural” and “intercultural communication” mean to us and how we inflect these based on our own experiences, identities, and perspectives. Discussants break down how they understand the notion of “intercultural” behind commonly used and circulated terms in our scholarship
Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments
In the next section of the discussion, the participating scholars elaborate on their views of the most pressing intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges that we face in today's world. The discussants identify both historically persistent and newly emerging challenges and crises that greatly impact our world's communities, their health and well-being, the environment, war and violence, oppression, domination, resistance, and political conse…
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
Check On It”: Beyoncé, Southern booty, and Black femininities in music video
Beyoncé Knowles is a hip hop icon. She is known more for her voluptuous body than her body of work that crisscrosses multiple culture industries. Unlike her hip hop contemporaries, Beyoncé successfully performs a range of Black femininities, speaking at once to Black working and middle class sensibilities while fulfilling her dynamic roles as both a hip hop belle and a US exotic other globally. The music video emerges as the celebrity-making medi…
Between Us: A Bio-Poem
Research Article| March 01 2008 Between Us: A Bio-Poem Aisha S. Durham Aisha S. Durham aisha s. durham is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research and an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research examining the hip-hop generation is featured in her co-edited book, Home Girls Make Some Noise!: A Hip Hop Feminism Anthology. Search for other works by this a…
Verbal Exchange
This is a reflexive piece about the production and reception of personal experience and experimental writing in academia. The author uses poetics as a way to explore the marketability and marginalization of voices (and texts) from the periphery
Holloween, the Morning-After Poem
For Teri
In this poetic monologue based on the film Soul Food, the author uses Black feminist thought to explore the matrix of domination as it relates to Teri, the light-skin, married, high-powered attorney and eldest sibling in the matrifocal family. This framework enables the author to examine how Teri functions as the White capitalist patriarch within the Black family and the liaison between that family and the larger social institutions because of he…
Check On It”: Beyoncé, Southern booty, and Black femininities in music video
Beyoncé Knowles is a hip hop icon. She is known more for her voluptuous body than her body of work that crisscrosses multiple culture industries. Unlike her hip hop contemporaries, Beyoncé successfully performs a range of Black femininities, speaking at once to Black working and middle class sensibilities while fulfilling her dynamic roles as both a hip hop belle and a US exotic other globally. The music video emerges as the celebrity-making medi…
Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us
In order to engage in our larger discussion, we needed to share our definitions, framings, and theorizings of what “intercultural” and “intercultural communication” mean to us and how we inflect these based on our own experiences, identities, and perspectives. Discussants break down how they understand the notion of “intercultural” behind commonly used and circulated terms in our scholarship
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments
In the next section of the discussion, the participating scholars elaborate on their views of the most pressing intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges that we face in today's world. The discussants identify both historically persistent and newly emerging challenges and crises that greatly impact our world's communities, their health and well-being, the environment, war and violence, oppression, domination, resistance, and political conse…
Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring
The strongBlackwoman (SBW; Morgan, 1999) is a hip hop generation cultural script strategically performed by Black women to project authority, competency, and togetherness. It acts as psychic armor to shield against the deadly daily dagger of White heteropatriarchy in the academy. The author recites two indelible moments when she engages as mentor to narratively stage unmasking. Each moment provides a pedagogical opportunity to reimagine so-called…
Verbal Exchange
This is a reflexive piece about the production and reception of personal experience and experimental writing in academia. The author uses poetics as a way to explore the marketability and marginalization of voices (and texts) from the periphery
For Teri
In this poetic monologue based on the film Soul Food, the author uses Black feminist thought to explore the matrix of domination as it relates to Teri, the light-skin, married, high-powered attorney and eldest sibling in the matrifocal family. This framework enables the author to examine how Teri functions as the White capitalist patriarch within the Black family and the liaison between that family and the larger social institutions because of he…
Holloween, the Morning-After Poem
For Teri
In this poetic monologue based on the film Soul Food, the author uses Black feminist thought to explore the matrix of domination as it relates to Teri, the light-skin, married, high-powered attorney and eldest sibling in the matrifocal family. This framework enables the author to examine how Teri functions as the White capitalist patriarch within the Black family and the liaison between that family and the larger social institutions because of he…
Verbal Exchange
This is a reflexive piece about the production and reception of personal experience and experimental writing in academia. The author uses poetics as a way to explore the marketability and marginalization of voices (and texts) from the periphery
Between Us: A Bio-Poem
Research Article| March 01 2008 Between Us: A Bio-Poem Aisha S. Durham Aisha S. Durham aisha s. durham is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research and an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research examining the hip-hop generation is featured in her co-edited book, Home Girls Make Some Noise!: A Hip Hop Feminism Anthology. Search for other works by this a…
Check On It”: Beyoncé, Southern booty, and Black femininities in music video
Beyoncé Knowles is a hip hop icon. She is known more for her voluptuous body than her body of work that crisscrosses multiple culture industries. Unlike her hip hop contemporaries, Beyoncé successfully performs a range of Black femininities, speaking at once to Black working and middle class sensibilities while fulfilling her dynamic roles as both a hip hop belle and a US exotic other globally. The music video emerges as the celebrity-making medi…
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
Introducing the Discussion and One Another
Over a month-long period, the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication hosted an online discussion among 11 intercultural scholars across and outside of the discipline in response to four key questions. Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Rona Halualani, facilitated the discussion and introduced the question prompts. The goal was to create a vibrant, interactive dialogue about definitional framings of intercultural scholarship and their views of…
Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us
In order to engage in our larger discussion, we needed to share our definitions, framings, and theorizings of what “intercultural” and “intercultural communication” mean to us and how we inflect these based on our own experiences, identities, and perspectives. Discussants break down how they understand the notion of “intercultural” behind commonly used and circulated terms in our scholarship
Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments
In the next section of the discussion, the participating scholars elaborate on their views of the most pressing intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges that we face in today's world. The discussants identify both historically persistent and newly emerging challenges and crises that greatly impact our world's communities, their health and well-being, the environment, war and violence, oppression, domination, resistance, and political conse…
Kindred Narratives
Durham reinterprets home and reimagines the storied lives of black women by fusing her experience with those described by author Robin M. Boylorn in Sweetwater. Boylorn privileges African diasporic storytelling traditions, such as orality. Durham employs them and provides a complementary performance narrative to recount Southern black girlhood in Sweetwater NC, and Tidewater, VA
Kindred Narratives: Reflections of Southern Black Orality in Sweetwater
Durham reinterprets home and reimagines the storied lives of Black women by fusing her experience with those described by author Robin Boylorn in Sweetwater. Boylorn privileges African diasporic storytelling traditions, such as orality. Durham employs them and provides a complementary performance narrative to recount southern Black girlhood in Sweetwater (North Carolina) and Tidewater (Virginia
Departures in Black Sexualities
Within communication studies, a central inquiry area of African American studies in the exploration of controlling images or power-laden stereotypes of racialized sexuality as they relate to systems of inequality. From historical caricatures of the stud and jezebel used to justify racial apartheid to contemporary images of the hip hop THOT, homo-thug, and video vixen, there is an extensive body of transdisciplinary work that fleshes out how black…
On Collards 1
Durham describes autoethnography as a spiritual act of political self-determination and reclamation in a narrative that privileges the matrifocal ritual of cooking collards. As a site of creative, intellectual, and political production, Durham uses the kitchen to connect to the living memories of her mothers, broader Southern Black American culture, and black feminist thought. She also uses foodways to link the lived experiences of women of Afric…
Class Formation: Beyoncé in Music Video Production
Beyonce is an image icon who presents three different identities in music videos: the singular self, the hybrid self, and the integrated self. Her representations call attention to class performances of racialized gender and sexuality by Black women. Drawing from hip-hop feminism, the author discusses how the singer's shift in representation signaled a shift in the cultural criticism produced about Beyoncé within a ten-year period
White folks: Race and identity in rural America
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Florida is a site of critical inquiry and figures prominently in the US American imaginary. The Sunshine State sets the stage for broader conversations about cultural difference, climate change, and participatory democracy. Contributors to this special issue apply the canonical circuit of culture model to address the interrelated nature of culture and power. They provide methodologically thick, fleshy interpretive analyses that privilege experien…
Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring
The strongBlackwoman (SBW; Morgan, 1999) is a hip hop generation cultural script strategically performed by Black women to project authority, competency, and togetherness. It acts as psychic armor to shield against the deadly daily dagger of White heteropatriarchy in the academy. The author recites two indelible moments when she engages as mentor to narratively stage unmasking. Each moment provides a pedagogical opportunity to reimagine so-called…
Quarantined across borders: Theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing
Embodied transnationalism is characterized by intimate experiences of human-made political borders that define, limit, and restrict flows of the “Other.” In the Quarantined Across Borders collection, contributors from immigrant and diasporic backgrounds address the material and discursive differences in how they experience the pandemic in terms of a public health crisis and public policy response that intersects racialized gender, class, citizens…
The Stories We Tell: Black Women's Narratives of Agency, (Dis)Respect, and Resistance During Prenatal Care
More than 30% of Black women report experiencing disrespect and mistreatment, such as being dismissed, ignored, or verbally abused, and up to 40% endure racism during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Epidemiological studies of disrespectful care are beneficial to understanding the scope of the problem but fall short of exploring how mistreatment can reproduce historical harm and function to control, coerce, and render Black women invisible during …
Homing performance: A Black feminism roundtable
In this essay, we engage in a roundtable discussion to explore how we each home Black feminist performance in our work. We offer “homing” as an organizing concept. It does dual work. First, homing recalls a placemaking practice or a praxis of becoming and belonging using the knowing-doing body to create, disrupt, or transform space. Second, homing denotes a return to radical joy and make-do pragmatism rooted in Black feminism that relies on the k…
Bellied in Bahia
Sociology (19 works) · Art (13 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Literature (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Music History and Culture (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)