Aisha K Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 205219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aisha K Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aisha K |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Association |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Unruly Temporality of an Antislavery Ethos
This Forum examines and challenges the existing periodization of the field of early American history. The Forum is co-organized by Vanessa M. Holden and Michael John Witgen and features contributions from Ernesto Bassi, Andrew J. Walker, Manisha Sinha, Aisha K. Finch, Honor Sachs, Jameson R. Sweet, Malinda Maynor Lowery and Christina Snyder, Michael John Witgen, Jon Parmenter, Kariann Akemi Yokota, Kathryn Olivarius, and Greta LaFleur
Haunted Flesh and Chaos Theory
This article explores the gendered afterlife of slave rebellions, building on historical and sociological scholarship that takes death and haunting as central analytics. It focuses on a moment of state repression in Cuba in 1844, in the aftermath of two substantive slave insurgencies, and the movement of enslaved and free people of color known as La Escalera. While a voluminous colonial record has documented the spectacle of public punishment in …
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
This essay follows in the footsteps of two women, Cecile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, to explore the convergence between sacred space, embodied archives, and slave insurgent movements during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cecile Fatiman was the mambo, or Vodun priestess, who famously presided over the Bois-Caiman ceremony that ignited the Haitian Revolution. Though relatively unknown to historians, Petra Carabalí helped to produce a mome…
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
This book publishes innovative works in Cuban studies, drawn from diverse subjects and disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, from the colonial period through the post-Cold War era. Featuring scholarship engaged with theoretical approaches and interpretive frameworks informed by social, cultural, and intellectual perspectives, the series highlights the exploration of historical and cultural circumstances and conditions related to the …
Scandalous Scarcities
This article draws on the writing of North American and European travelers to illustrate the ways in which enslaved black women became central to Cuba's visions of colonial prosperity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such literature highlights the anxieties that plagued Cuban colonial elites as the slave trade consistently brought fewer African women than men to the island. As mothers, wives, and caretakers of domestic space, black and African wome…
Four Works on the African Diaspora
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxv+ 491 pp. (Cloth US$29.95) The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Isidore Okpewho. Carole Boyce Davies. and Ali A. Mazrui (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxviii. 566 pp. (Cloth USS59.95) Globalizat…
Scandalous Scarcities
This article draws on the writing of North American and European travelers to illustrate the ways in which enslaved black women became central to Cuba's visions of colonial prosperity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such literature highlights the anxieties that plagued Cuban colonial elites as the slave trade consistently brought fewer African women than men to the island. As mothers, wives, and caretakers of domestic space, black and African wome…
Four Works on the African Diaspora
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxv+ 491 pp. (Cloth US$29.95) The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Isidore Okpewho. Carole Boyce Davies. and Ali A. Mazrui (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxviii. 566 pp. (Cloth USS59.95) Globalizat…
Scandalous Scarcities
This article draws on the writing of North American and European travelers to illustrate the ways in which enslaved black women became central to Cuba's visions of colonial prosperity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such literature highlights the anxieties that plagued Cuban colonial elites as the slave trade consistently brought fewer African women than men to the island. As mothers, wives, and caretakers of domestic space, black and African wome…
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
This book publishes innovative works in Cuban studies, drawn from diverse subjects and disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, from the colonial period through the post-Cold War era. Featuring scholarship engaged with theoretical approaches and interpretive frameworks informed by social, cultural, and intellectual perspectives, the series highlights the exploration of historical and cultural circumstances and conditions related to the …
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
This essay follows in the footsteps of two women, Cecile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, to explore the convergence between sacred space, embodied archives, and slave insurgent movements during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cecile Fatiman was the mambo, or Vodun priestess, who famously presided over the Bois-Caiman ceremony that ignited the Haitian Revolution. Though relatively unknown to historians, Petra Carabalí helped to produce a mome…
Haunted Flesh and Chaos Theory
This article explores the gendered afterlife of slave rebellions, building on historical and sociological scholarship that takes death and haunting as central analytics. It focuses on a moment of state repression in Cuba in 1844, in the aftermath of two substantive slave insurgencies, and the movement of enslaved and free people of color known as La Escalera. While a voluminous colonial record has documented the spectacle of public punishment in …
The Unruly Temporality of an Antislavery Ethos
This Forum examines and challenges the existing periodization of the field of early American history. The Forum is co-organized by Vanessa M. Holden and Michael John Witgen and features contributions from Ernesto Bassi, Andrew J. Walker, Manisha Sinha, Aisha K. Finch, Honor Sachs, Jameson R. Sweet, Malinda Maynor Lowery and Christina Snyder, Michael John Witgen, Jon Parmenter, Kariann Akemi Yokota, Kathryn Olivarius, and Greta LaFleur
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)