Jafari S Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jafari S Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jafari S |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Roundtable: Defining the Black 1980s
To begin this special issue on the Black 1980s, we asked some of the leading thinkers in the area of post–Civil Rights era Black politics, culture, and society to help us to wrestle with issues of chronology, historiography, and the complicated connections between African Americans and the Black world in this crucial decade. In particular, we wanted to begin a conversation about how we define the Black 1980s and what impact focusing on the period…
There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, Lon…
Afterword: “Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”
A reflection on the ‘Mapping Creole Miami: Black Intellectual and Artistic Trajectories’ symposium; pursuing coarse, loose(ned), twisted, and braided strands of relation that can create and maintain more possible Black futures
Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom
This short appreciation of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller—one of the leading theorists of mobility studies and the author of numerous works that have expanded our understanding of transits to and around the Caribbean—emphasizes the theoretical and ethical/political traditions out of which this synthetic work emerges. Here we push gently, yet steadily, toward continuing the process of historicizing and …
Race/Sex Theory 'Toward a New and More Possible Meeting: Race/Sex Theory ‘Toward a New and More Possible Meeting
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture
This essay sketches the parameters of black/queer/diaspora ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies vis-à-vis conjunctural moments in black queer studies, women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, queer theory, and on-the-ground expressive practices. This genealogical matrix of the present moment argues that black/queer/diaspora work's love ethic, and radical roots in black and women of color feminisms, uniquely constructs it as an organic …
One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
Intervening at the nexus of queer anthropology, black resistance, and Latin American and Caribbean culture and politics, I examine sites, modalities, and limits of "erotic subjectivity" during Cuba's Special Period in Time of Peace (Período Especial en Tiempo de Paz)-the economic crisis of the 1990s. I trace how nonheteronormative black Cubans have been reinventing ways to participate, officially and unofficially, in a number of fraught, uneven e…
Venceremos: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture
This essay sketches the parameters of black/queer/diaspora ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies vis-à-vis conjunctural moments in black queer studies, women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, queer theory, and on-the-ground expressive practices. This genealogical matrix of the present moment argues that black/queer/diaspora work's love ethic, and radical roots in black and women of color feminisms, uniquely constructs it as an organic …
One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
Intervening at the nexus of queer anthropology, black resistance, and Latin American and Caribbean culture and politics, I examine sites, modalities, and limits of "erotic subjectivity" during Cuba's Special Period in Time of Peace (Período Especial en Tiempo de Paz)-the economic crisis of the 1990s. I trace how nonheteronormative black Cubans have been reinventing ways to participate, officially and unofficially, in a number of fraught, uneven e…
Race/Sex Theory 'Toward a New and More Possible Meeting: Race/Sex Theory ‘Toward a New and More Possible Meeting
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
Venceremos: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture
This essay sketches the parameters of black/queer/diaspora ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies vis-à-vis conjunctural moments in black queer studies, women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, queer theory, and on-the-ground expressive practices. This genealogical matrix of the present moment argues that black/queer/diaspora work's love ethic, and radical roots in black and women of color feminisms, uniquely constructs it as an organic …
One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
Intervening at the nexus of queer anthropology, black resistance, and Latin American and Caribbean culture and politics, I examine sites, modalities, and limits of "erotic subjectivity" during Cuba's Special Period in Time of Peace (Período Especial en Tiempo de Paz)-the economic crisis of the 1990s. I trace how nonheteronormative black Cubans have been reinventing ways to participate, officially and unofficially, in a number of fraught, uneven e…
Race/Sex Theory 'Toward a New and More Possible Meeting: Race/Sex Theory ‘Toward a New and More Possible Meeting
Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom
This short appreciation of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller—one of the leading theorists of mobility studies and the author of numerous works that have expanded our understanding of transits to and around the Caribbean—emphasizes the theoretical and ethical/political traditions out of which this synthetic work emerges. Here we push gently, yet steadily, toward continuing the process of historicizing and …
Afterword: “Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”
A reflection on the ‘Mapping Creole Miami: Black Intellectual and Artistic Trajectories’ symposium; pursuing coarse, loose(ned), twisted, and braided strands of relation that can create and maintain more possible Black futures
There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, Lon…
Roundtable: Defining the Black 1980s
To begin this special issue on the Black 1980s, we asked some of the leading thinkers in the area of post–Civil Rights era Black politics, culture, and society to help us to wrestle with issues of chronology, historiography, and the complicated connections between African Americans and the Black world in this crucial decade. In particular, we wanted to begin a conversation about how we define the Black 1980s and what impact focusing on the period…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)