Douglas A Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas A Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1451-6369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blackface Geographies: Introduction
As “blackface” has become a catchall for a range of practices in contemporary global popular culture, use of the term has entrenched an implicit assumption that blackface is distinctive to the United States. To grasp the manifest globality of blackface, however, it is necessary to consider the many histories and forms blackface has taken across disparate geographies as well as its role in shaping racialized mappings of the world
Digital Duality: Exploring Mobile Technology's Impact on Healthcare Professionals’ Well-being and Burnout
Burnout among healthcare professionals is a critical issue that significantly impacts employee well-being, patient care, and healthcare outcomes. As digital transformation in the public sector progresses, healthcare has not been exempted from these changes. This paper leverages the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model to explore how mobile technology impacts burnout, positing it as a dual factor in this dynamic. Mobile technology, while streamlinin…
Hiding in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Classix on Canon, Community, and Alice Childress
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground
This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition and queries of the ontology of value, it reads how Wright makes way for modes of thought that, while scorned by normative aims and logics, produce new perspectives, habits, and, perh…
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance
Two Black men hang out on the street corner. They trade jokes, tell stories, pass the time. From time to time they are interrupted: by floodlights that freeze them in their tracks, by a strange white man seemingly plucked from another time, and finally, by a menacing racist cop. In playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s hands, this Beckettian tale shows us, perhaps, that the racial absurd (Vogel 2022) is not solely an applied or adapted European phenomen…
Race and Performance after Repetition
Adena Spingarn. Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor
In their first engagements with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly (1852), contemporary readers very often expect to learn what actions and beliefs Uncle Tom embraces that account for his name becoming the epithet for a race traitor. What these readers discover with ever greater force as the novel progresses is “Uncle Tom” the insult and Uncle Tom the character do not really align: Uncle Tom encourages other slave…
The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple constituencies, ranging from early national artisans and Ja…
Black Politics but Not Black People: Rethinking the Social and “Racial” History of Early Minstrelsy
Although American blackface minstrelsy in its early period (1829–1843) esteemed the anti-authoritarian potentiality of black alterity, the form's performers and most influential public (the white working class of the urban northeast) spurned actual black people. In minstrelsy they fashioned “blackness,” a new “race” with which to distinguish themselves from socioeconomic elites as well as African Americans
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review)
Reviewed by: The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Douglas A. Jones Jr. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong'o. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009; pp. 230. $67.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Although the election of a mixed-race president signaled to many the beginning of the end of the problem of the color line, the discourse of postraciality is "not just the effe…
Books
Race, recruitment and organisational access, RICHARD JENKINS, Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 281 pp., £27.50, cloth. JON MILLER, Pathways in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender and Race on Access to Organisational Resources, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 114 pp., £19.50, cloth. The ethnography of language, ROGER HEWITT, White Talk Black Talk, Cambr…
The Chinese in Britain: Rebirth of a community
The Chinese at home and overseas (a review article)
Rita Liljestrom et al., Young Children in China, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, (Original Swedish publication) 1985, 262 pp., £19 hb; £8.90 pb. Anthony Shang, The Chinese in Britain, Batsford, London, 1984,72 pp., £7.50 hb. Runnymede Research Report, The Chinese Community in Britain: The Home Affairs Committee Report in Context, Runnymede Trust, London, 1986, 21 pp., £1.25 pamphlet
Perspectives on psychotherapy
Books
New views on inter‐war Fascism, K. Lunn and R. C. Thurlow (eds.), British Fascism, Croom Helm, 1980. The Jewish community — past and present, Gerald Cromer, England: the History of the Anglo‐Jewish Community, Keter Books, distributed by Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1978, £2.75. Yehuda Bauer, The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness, Macmillan, 1980, £12. Jane Moonman, Anglo‐Jewry — an analysis, commissioned by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, pu…
The Chinese in Britain: Origins and development of a community
The Chinese in Britain: Origins and development of a community
Books
New views on inter‐war Fascism, K. Lunn and R. C. Thurlow (eds.), British Fascism, Croom Helm, 1980. The Jewish community — past and present, Gerald Cromer, England: the History of the Anglo‐Jewish Community, Keter Books, distributed by Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1978, £2.75. Yehuda Bauer, The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness, Macmillan, 1980, £12. Jane Moonman, Anglo‐Jewry — an analysis, commissioned by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, pu…
Perspectives on psychotherapy
The Chinese at home and overseas (a review article)
Rita Liljestrom et al., Young Children in China, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, (Original Swedish publication) 1985, 262 pp., £19 hb; £8.90 pb. Anthony Shang, The Chinese in Britain, Batsford, London, 1984,72 pp., £7.50 hb. Runnymede Research Report, The Chinese Community in Britain: The Home Affairs Committee Report in Context, Runnymede Trust, London, 1986, 21 pp., £1.25 pamphlet
Books
Race, recruitment and organisational access, RICHARD JENKINS, Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 281 pp., £27.50, cloth. JON MILLER, Pathways in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender and Race on Access to Organisational Resources, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 114 pp., £19.50, cloth. The ethnography of language, ROGER HEWITT, White Talk Black Talk, Cambr…
The Chinese in Britain: Rebirth of a community
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review)
Reviewed by: The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Douglas A. Jones Jr. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong'o. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009; pp. 230. $67.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Although the election of a mixed-race president signaled to many the beginning of the end of the problem of the color line, the discourse of postraciality is "not just the effe…
Black Politics but Not Black People: Rethinking the Social and “Racial” History of Early Minstrelsy
Although American blackface minstrelsy in its early period (1829–1843) esteemed the anti-authoritarian potentiality of black alterity, the form's performers and most influential public (the white working class of the urban northeast) spurned actual black people. In minstrelsy they fashioned “blackness,” a new “race” with which to distinguish themselves from socioeconomic elites as well as African Americans
The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple constituencies, ranging from early national artisans and Ja…
Adena Spingarn. Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor
In their first engagements with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly (1852), contemporary readers very often expect to learn what actions and beliefs Uncle Tom embraces that account for his name becoming the epithet for a race traitor. What these readers discover with ever greater force as the novel progresses is “Uncle Tom” the insult and Uncle Tom the character do not really align: Uncle Tom encourages other slave…
Race and Performance after Repetition
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground
This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition and queries of the ontology of value, it reads how Wright makes way for modes of thought that, while scorned by normative aims and logics, produce new perspectives, habits, and, perh…
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance
Two Black men hang out on the street corner. They trade jokes, tell stories, pass the time. From time to time they are interrupted: by floodlights that freeze them in their tracks, by a strange white man seemingly plucked from another time, and finally, by a menacing racist cop. In playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s hands, this Beckettian tale shows us, perhaps, that the racial absurd (Vogel 2022) is not solely an applied or adapted European phenomen…
Digital Duality: Exploring Mobile Technology's Impact on Healthcare Professionals’ Well-being and Burnout
Burnout among healthcare professionals is a critical issue that significantly impacts employee well-being, patient care, and healthcare outcomes. As digital transformation in the public sector progresses, healthcare has not been exempted from these changes. This paper leverages the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model to explore how mobile technology impacts burnout, positing it as a dual factor in this dynamic. Mobile technology, while streamlinin…
Hiding in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Classix on Canon, Community, and Alice Childress
Blackface Geographies: Introduction
As “blackface” has become a catchall for a range of practices in contemporary global popular culture, use of the term has entrenched an implicit assumption that blackface is distinctive to the United States. To grasp the manifest globality of blackface, however, it is necessary to consider the many histories and forms blackface has taken across disparate geographies as well as its role in shaping racialized mappings of the world
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