Tiffany Lethabo King
Biographic Data
| ID | 282872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiffany Lethabo King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiffany Lethabo |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Staying Down: Comportment and the Ecological Field
This article underscores sites of Black and Indigenous ecological failure to draw attention to the limits of figuring ideal subjects on the “ecological field” as stewards of, laborers on, and ultimately masters of, the earth. I consider depictions of errant ecological comportment to render other kinds of orientations—boredom, distraction, orgasmic submission, grief—plausible and necessary for developing and honing an ecological ethic. What is oft…
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies
As I reflect on the urgent questions and concerns of the co-authors and collaborators, I think about the institutional terrains that they often find themselves writing within and against, specifically the discursive economies of universities and philanthropic foundations. In response to their desire for more direct and deliberate dialog, I ruminate on the question: What if the Black grammars of survival and regeneration developed during and in th…
Black Mountain Songs
The article uses sound—specifically Black music, traces of Mvskoke Creek ceremonial music, and sound waves generated millions of years ago during the orogeny that produced the mountains in the region—to reorient the author to her mountain climb up the infamous Stone Mountain (Georgia, USA). The author takes up the listening practices informed by Dylan Robinson’s and Katherine McKittrick’s refusal in Hungry Listening (2020) and Dear Science and Ot…
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller (review)
Reviewed by: Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller Tiffany King (bio) Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller University of Oklahoma Press, 2022 IN BEING INDIGENOUS IN JIM CROW VIRGINIA: Powhatan People and the Color Line, Laura Feller chronicles the relentless struggle of tidewater Virginia Indians from 1850 to 1950 to "maintain, assert, r…
T. J. Tallie’s “Pink Frock Studies”
The Black Shoals Dossier
This dossier collects four reflections on 'The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies' (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts
Journal Article I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts Get access I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts. ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 200 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.) Tiffany Lethabo King Tiffany Lethabo King University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U…
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh
Travels and Travails of Settler Colonialism in Queer Natal
T. J. Tallie's intricate historical work at the intersection of queer theory and critical indigenous studies maps late nineteenth-century Natal as a shifting, anxious field of play where settler colonial governance and African indigenous resistance are in a tempestuous embrace. Tallie sets the stage of settler colonial encounter in Natal, where a former Dutch trade outpost transformed into a British colony (through conquest of Zulu and Dutch mili…
New World Grammars: The “Unthought” Black Discourses of Conquest
This article inquires whether or not North American white settler colonial studies’ preoccupation with settlement, settler subjectivity and land make it increasingly difficult to register the far reaching and ongoing violence of conquest in everyday life? I argue that an analytical return to and tarrying with conquest enables a different kind of conversation and ethical engagement among scholars in Black Studies, Native Studies, ethnic studies, s…
Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness
Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies
Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies Chad Infante (bio), Sandra Harvey (bio), Kelly Limes Taylor (bio), and Tiffany King (bio) In 2015, we began assembling a dialogue among Black identified scholars committed to research focusing on Black diasporan people about how Black Studies might approach Native and Indigenous Studies. Tiffany Lethabo King reached out to Shona Jackson, Melanie Newton, Faye Yarborough, Tiya Miles…
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
Black 'Feminisms' and Pessimism: Abolishing Moynihan's Negro Family
This article reads Kay Lindsey's (1970) "The Black Woman as Woman," and Hortense Spillers' (1987) "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," as abolitionist responses to The Moynihan Report's pathologization of the Black family and it's naturalization of the family as the ordering episteme of social life. Lindsey's and Spillers' critique of the family exposes the violence that creates its conditions of possibility and paints a horizon where the family is beyon…
Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight
The Labor of (Re)reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly): Fungibility
This article centers Saidiya Hartman's and Hortense Spillers' theorizations of Black fungibility as well as two speculative visual works in order to read Black bodies on plantation landscapes as symbols of transition, process, genderlessness and boundarylessness. I argue that reading Black bodies in this way breaks with the totalizing visual, conceptual and ontological regime of labor that tends to over determine Blackness within critical theorie…
One Strike Evictions, State Space and the Production of Abject Black Female Bodies
This article examines activist Connie Burton's as well as other black women's 'political narratives' of resistance to One Strike evictions. Contextualizing the One Strike policy within narratives of resistance to methods of discipline employed by public housing authorities will allow for an anchoring of this investigation of One Strike and no fault evictions in an analytical framework of governmentality. By focusing on disciplinary power in order…
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
The Labor of (Re)reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly): Fungibility
This article centers Saidiya Hartman's and Hortense Spillers' theorizations of Black fungibility as well as two speculative visual works in order to read Black bodies on plantation landscapes as symbols of transition, process, genderlessness and boundarylessness. I argue that reading Black bodies in this way breaks with the totalizing visual, conceptual and ontological regime of labor that tends to over determine Blackness within critical theorie…
Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight
One Strike Evictions, State Space and the Production of Abject Black Female Bodies
This article examines activist Connie Burton's as well as other black women's 'political narratives' of resistance to One Strike evictions. Contextualizing the One Strike policy within narratives of resistance to methods of discipline employed by public housing authorities will allow for an anchoring of this investigation of One Strike and no fault evictions in an analytical framework of governmentality. By focusing on disciplinary power in order…
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh
One Strike Evictions, State Space and the Production of Abject Black Female Bodies
This article examines activist Connie Burton's as well as other black women's 'political narratives' of resistance to One Strike evictions. Contextualizing the One Strike policy within narratives of resistance to methods of discipline employed by public housing authorities will allow for an anchoring of this investigation of One Strike and no fault evictions in an analytical framework of governmentality. By focusing on disciplinary power in order…
The Labor of (Re)reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly): Fungibility
This article centers Saidiya Hartman's and Hortense Spillers' theorizations of Black fungibility as well as two speculative visual works in order to read Black bodies on plantation landscapes as symbols of transition, process, genderlessness and boundarylessness. I argue that reading Black bodies in this way breaks with the totalizing visual, conceptual and ontological regime of labor that tends to over determine Blackness within critical theorie…
Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight
Black 'Feminisms' and Pessimism: Abolishing Moynihan's Negro Family
This article reads Kay Lindsey's (1970) "The Black Woman as Woman," and Hortense Spillers' (1987) "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," as abolitionist responses to The Moynihan Report's pathologization of the Black family and it's naturalization of the family as the ordering episteme of social life. Lindsey's and Spillers' critique of the family exposes the violence that creates its conditions of possibility and paints a horizon where the family is beyon…
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
New World Grammars: The “Unthought” Black Discourses of Conquest
This article inquires whether or not North American white settler colonial studies’ preoccupation with settlement, settler subjectivity and land make it increasingly difficult to register the far reaching and ongoing violence of conquest in everyday life? I argue that an analytical return to and tarrying with conquest enables a different kind of conversation and ethical engagement among scholars in Black Studies, Native Studies, ethnic studies, s…
Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness
Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies
Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies Chad Infante (bio), Sandra Harvey (bio), Kelly Limes Taylor (bio), and Tiffany King (bio) In 2015, we began assembling a dialogue among Black identified scholars committed to research focusing on Black diasporan people about how Black Studies might approach Native and Indigenous Studies. Tiffany Lethabo King reached out to Shona Jackson, Melanie Newton, Faye Yarborough, Tiya Miles…
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh
Travels and Travails of Settler Colonialism in Queer Natal
T. J. Tallie's intricate historical work at the intersection of queer theory and critical indigenous studies maps late nineteenth-century Natal as a shifting, anxious field of play where settler colonial governance and African indigenous resistance are in a tempestuous embrace. Tallie sets the stage of settler colonial encounter in Natal, where a former Dutch trade outpost transformed into a British colony (through conquest of Zulu and Dutch mili…
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts
Journal Article I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts Get access I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. America in the Nineteenth Century. By Alaina Roberts. ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 200 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.) Tiffany Lethabo King Tiffany Lethabo King University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U…
The Black Shoals Dossier
This dossier collects four reflections on 'The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies' (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri
Black Mountain Songs
The article uses sound—specifically Black music, traces of Mvskoke Creek ceremonial music, and sound waves generated millions of years ago during the orogeny that produced the mountains in the region—to reorient the author to her mountain climb up the infamous Stone Mountain (Georgia, USA). The author takes up the listening practices informed by Dylan Robinson’s and Katherine McKittrick’s refusal in Hungry Listening (2020) and Dear Science and Ot…
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller (review)
Reviewed by: Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller Tiffany King (bio) Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller University of Oklahoma Press, 2022 IN BEING INDIGENOUS IN JIM CROW VIRGINIA: Powhatan People and the Color Line, Laura Feller chronicles the relentless struggle of tidewater Virginia Indians from 1850 to 1950 to "maintain, assert, r…
T. J. Tallie’s “Pink Frock Studies”
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies
As I reflect on the urgent questions and concerns of the co-authors and collaborators, I think about the institutional terrains that they often find themselves writing within and against, specifically the discursive economies of universities and philanthropic foundations. In response to their desire for more direct and deliberate dialog, I ruminate on the question: What if the Black grammars of survival and regeneration developed during and in th…
Staying Down: Comportment and the Ecological Field
This article underscores sites of Black and Indigenous ecological failure to draw attention to the limits of figuring ideal subjects on the “ecological field” as stewards of, laborers on, and ultimately masters of, the earth. I consider depictions of errant ecological comportment to render other kinds of orientations—boredom, distraction, orgasmic submission, grief—plausible and necessary for developing and honing an ecological ethic. What is oft…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)