Lia T Bascomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 2220206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lia T Bascomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lia T |
| FAMILY NAME | Bascomb |
| SIGNATURE | BASCOMB L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Holding Land, Claiming Kin: The Relation Between Race, Land, and Kinship in the Southern US and Barbados
“Holding Land, Claiming Kin” uses a comparison between the Southern US and the Caribbean island of Barbados to explore the connection between race, property, and kinship. Focusing on the customary practices of family land and the legal category of heir property, we argue that land ownership is used by racially dispossessed populations to name and practise kinship, to assert multiple forms of belonging, and to define their own value systems within…
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
Water, Roads, and Mapping Diaspora Through Biomythography
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Freakifying history: Remixing royalty
Afrocentric revisions of world history have given way to Afrofuturist imaginings of the future. In the 2013 video for the song ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’, black American artists Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu offer an Afrofuturist redefinition of queenliness. While visually and lyrically presenting themselves as queens, they repeatedly ask ‘am I a freak for getting down?’ The idea of being a ‘freak’ and its associations with sexuality, abnormality, and deviance…
I'm So Proud to Be Your Queen
The image of black queens has a rich legacy within African diasporic discourse. This article examines Barbadian singer Alison Hinds's performance as Soca Queen. Hinds's prolific career spans decades. Her fans named her the Queen of Soca and she took on the designation, titling her first solo album Soca Queen and her second Caribbean Queen. I argue that Hinds uses the Queen trope as a diasporic resource, allowing her to negotiate diverse standards…
Productively Destabilized: Black Studies and Fantastic Modes of Being
The 2008 release of Richard Iton's In Search of the Black Fantastic marked a significant moment in debates about the relationship between culture and politics within black studies. His concept of “the black fantastic” destabilizes notions of modernity by grappling with the people, expressions, knowledges, and modes of being written out of a Western modern structure. This article explores what Iton's concept of the black fantastic offers black stu…
Eyes Wide Open: A Case Study Reflecting on Black Awakening
headed towards the middle class. They were being trained to become the new leaders of a community plagued by racist capitalism, but they were also being enticed to leave that community. He writes how racial integration offer [ed] middle-class Negroes the pleasurable prospect of shedding their blackness.1 It can safely be argued that this is indeed the case with some of the prominent black intellectuals and so-called leaders that
Holding Land, Claiming Kin: The Relation Between Race, Land, and Kinship in the Southern US and Barbados
“Holding Land, Claiming Kin” uses a comparison between the Southern US and the Caribbean island of Barbados to explore the connection between race, property, and kinship. Focusing on the customary practices of family land and the legal category of heir property, we argue that land ownership is used by racially dispossessed populations to name and practise kinship, to assert multiple forms of belonging, and to define their own value systems within…
Eyes Wide Open: A Case Study Reflecting on Black Awakening
headed towards the middle class. They were being trained to become the new leaders of a community plagued by racist capitalism, but they were also being enticed to leave that community. He writes how racial integration offer [ed] middle-class Negroes the pleasurable prospect of shedding their blackness.1 It can safely be argued that this is indeed the case with some of the prominent black intellectuals and so-called leaders that
Eyes Wide Open: A Case Study Reflecting on Black Awakening
headed towards the middle class. They were being trained to become the new leaders of a community plagued by racist capitalism, but they were also being enticed to leave that community. He writes how racial integration offer [ed] middle-class Negroes the pleasurable prospect of shedding their blackness.1 It can safely be argued that this is indeed the case with some of the prominent black intellectuals and so-called leaders that
Productively Destabilized: Black Studies and Fantastic Modes of Being
The 2008 release of Richard Iton's In Search of the Black Fantastic marked a significant moment in debates about the relationship between culture and politics within black studies. His concept of “the black fantastic” destabilizes notions of modernity by grappling with the people, expressions, knowledges, and modes of being written out of a Western modern structure. This article explores what Iton's concept of the black fantastic offers black stu…
Freakifying history: Remixing royalty
Afrocentric revisions of world history have given way to Afrofuturist imaginings of the future. In the 2013 video for the song ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’, black American artists Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu offer an Afrofuturist redefinition of queenliness. While visually and lyrically presenting themselves as queens, they repeatedly ask ‘am I a freak for getting down?’ The idea of being a ‘freak’ and its associations with sexuality, abnormality, and deviance…
I'm So Proud to Be Your Queen
The image of black queens has a rich legacy within African diasporic discourse. This article examines Barbadian singer Alison Hinds's performance as Soca Queen. Hinds's prolific career spans decades. Her fans named her the Queen of Soca and she took on the designation, titling her first solo album Soca Queen and her second Caribbean Queen. I argue that Hinds uses the Queen trope as a diasporic resource, allowing her to negotiate diverse standards…
Water, Roads, and Mapping Diaspora Through Biomythography
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
Holding Land, Claiming Kin: The Relation Between Race, Land, and Kinship in the Southern US and Barbados
“Holding Land, Claiming Kin” uses a comparison between the Southern US and the Caribbean island of Barbados to explore the connection between race, property, and kinship. Focusing on the customary practices of family land and the legal category of heir property, we argue that land ownership is used by racially dispossessed populations to name and practise kinship, to assert multiple forms of belonging, and to define their own value systems within…
Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Economics (2 works)