Jafari Sinclaire Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jafari Sinclaire Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jafari Sinclaire |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Back to School, With Love
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
Emerging from the long Black intellectual tradition, radical Black lesbian feminist work anticipates (and to some degree mitigates) some of the thorny epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic questions that anthropologists face, and have critiqued, since at least the early 1980s. This chapter assays a genealogical inquiry following their social-cultural methodologies, analyses, and theorization—arguing that this work inaugurates a redefined, revis…
Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience
After The Love
In this epistolary reflection on the impact of the "Black/Queer/Diaspora" special issue, the authors reevaluate the scholarly practice of Black queer friendship, kinship, and love. Recognizing the ways "Black/Queer/Diaspora" emerged from and built many personal/professional relationships that have made this generation of Black queer scholarship possible, Tinsley asks: Why does a next generation of Black queer scholarship feel less possible now th…
One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis
The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba
What does the promise of 1959â€"¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)â€"mean to blacks in the United States, and what are the possible futures for the continuation and expansion of revolution? As commentary by black individuals who visited or took refuge in Revolutionary Cuba and my own ethnographic work on the island, roughly from 1998 to 2003, show, the vision of Cuba has become more salient and more complex as the position of blacks in the United States…
For "the Children" Dancing the Beloved Community
This essay offers the underground Black queer dance club as a key site for an exploration of not only individual desire and autonomy, but also community. Based on auto-ethnographic experience within clubs in the U.S., and close readings of Black lesbian and gay literature and theory, this intervention is made within a particularly "queer time"-past and present, futures yearned for and denied; and "queer place"-the club, the Black queer page, stag…
Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Dána-Ain Davis
Means of Desire's Production: Male Sex Labor in Cuba 1
Tourism has provided myriad spaces in which black Cuban subjects participate in self-making, yet within a field still constrained by historical structures of sexual and racial interpellation. This essay focuses on the local social cultural context of male sex labor in Havana, Cuba, from 1998 to 2003. It explores the subjective intentions of young Cuban men during the Special Period in Times of Peace and current Transition on the island, relative …
Association of Black Anthropologists: The Necessity of ABA
The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
For "the Children" Dancing the Beloved Community
This essay offers the underground Black queer dance club as a key site for an exploration of not only individual desire and autonomy, but also community. Based on auto-ethnographic experience within clubs in the U.S., and close readings of Black lesbian and gay literature and theory, this intervention is made within a particularly "queer time"-past and present, futures yearned for and denied; and "queer place"-the club, the Black queer page, stag…
One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis
Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba
What does the promise of 1959â€"¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)â€"mean to blacks in the United States, and what are the possible futures for the continuation and expansion of revolution? As commentary by black individuals who visited or took refuge in Revolutionary Cuba and my own ethnographic work on the island, roughly from 1998 to 2003, show, the vision of Cuba has become more salient and more complex as the position of blacks in the United States…
Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience
Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Dána-Ain Davis
Association of Black Anthropologists: The Necessity of ABA
Means of Desire's Production: Male Sex Labor in Cuba 1
Tourism has provided myriad spaces in which black Cuban subjects participate in self-making, yet within a field still constrained by historical structures of sexual and racial interpellation. This essay focuses on the local social cultural context of male sex labor in Havana, Cuba, from 1998 to 2003. It explores the subjective intentions of young Cuban men during the Special Period in Times of Peace and current Transition on the island, relative …
Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Dána-Ain Davis
Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba
What does the promise of 1959â€"¡Venceremos! (We Will Win!)â€"mean to blacks in the United States, and what are the possible futures for the continuation and expansion of revolution? As commentary by black individuals who visited or took refuge in Revolutionary Cuba and my own ethnographic work on the island, roughly from 1998 to 2003, show, the vision of Cuba has become more salient and more complex as the position of blacks in the United States…
For "the Children" Dancing the Beloved Community
This essay offers the underground Black queer dance club as a key site for an exploration of not only individual desire and autonomy, but also community. Based on auto-ethnographic experience within clubs in the U.S., and close readings of Black lesbian and gay literature and theory, this intervention is made within a particularly "queer time"-past and present, futures yearned for and denied; and "queer place"-the club, the Black queer page, stag…
One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis
The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
After The Love
In this epistolary reflection on the impact of the "Black/Queer/Diaspora" special issue, the authors reevaluate the scholarly practice of Black queer friendship, kinship, and love. Recognizing the ways "Black/Queer/Diaspora" emerged from and built many personal/professional relationships that have made this generation of Black queer scholarship possible, Tinsley asks: Why does a next generation of Black queer scholarship feel less possible now th…
Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology
Emerging from the long Black intellectual tradition, radical Black lesbian feminist work anticipates (and to some degree mitigates) some of the thorny epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic questions that anthropologists face, and have critiqued, since at least the early 1980s. This chapter assays a genealogical inquiry following their social-cultural methodologies, analyses, and theorization—arguing that this work inaugurates a redefined, revis…
Back to School, With Love
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)