Joseph Keith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Keith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Keith |
| SIGNATURE | KEITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking Small: Islands and the Imperial Logics of Scale
This essay examines how the meaning of small islands has shifted in our neoliberal present, in ways that reveal changing imperial, in particular US imperial, formations. Opening with a focus on Guam, I suggest that smallness not only invokes a long-standing colonial rhetoric about islands: namely, a relational logic used to render the island's subordination as natural. Rather, smallness has also become an absolute term; it can, and has, become, t…
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific
Journal Article Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific Get access Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific. By Lauren Hirshberg. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. xiv, 365 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.95.) Joseph Keith Joseph Keith Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960
During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un -assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant Ameri…
The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War; Mainstreaming Black Power
Black power's image as a politically radical movement of black rage that achieved spectacular, albeit fleeting, national and international renown during the 1960s and 1970s, has seemed, at times, all but historically settled. Over the past two decades, however, a growing body of scholarship has set out—from myriad historical, theoretical, and methodological angles—to unsettle and broaden our understanding of the history and political afterlife of…
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
The title of Stephen Tuck's compelling book is refreshingly direct—but also a little misleading. The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union tells the fascinating and previously little-known tale of Malcolm X's speech on December 3, 1964, at the Oxford Union, perhaps the most elite student debating organization in Britain, if not the world. But the night is not in fact the book's central concern. (Indeed, we do not come to the night Malcolm X s…
Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903 Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse
Book Review| September 01 2015 Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903 Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903. By Thomas, Rhondda Robinson. Waco, TX: Baylor Univ. Press. 2013. 208 pp.$34.95.Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse. By Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder. New Brunswick,…
Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II
(2009). Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II. The Black Scholar: Vol. 39, Richard Wright: Centennial Conference, American University of Paris June 17–20, 2008, pp. 51-58
At the Formal Limits: C. L. R. James,Moby Dickand the Politics of the Realist Novel
Through a reading of C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (a reading of Melville's Moby Dick, which James wrote while imprisoned on Ellis Island in 1952 awaiting deportation hearings), this essay examines James's effort to rethink – through an anti-colonial and Marxist lens – the political limits of the novel form in general and the realist novel in particular as representational regimes. The essay begins by examining how James uses…
What Went Wrong: Reappraising the "Politics" of Theory
What Went Wrong?Reappraising the "Politics" of Theory Joseph Keith (bio) Review of: Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right. New York: Columbia UP, 2006. What went wrong? How to explain the dismal state of today's political landscape in the U.S.--with neoconservatism and free-market triumphalism in such dominance and the left in a state of apparent haplessness? According to Timothy Brennan in Wars of Position: T…
African Students in Great Britain
The writer of this article served in the administration of Northern Rhodesia, and is now in charge of the Welfare Department of the Colonial Office
Native Progress in Northern Rhodesia
NATIVE PROGRESS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA J. L. KEITH J. L. KEITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVI, Issue CXLV, October 1937, Pages 482–489, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101486 Published: 01 October 1937
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific
Journal Article Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific Get access Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific. By Lauren Hirshberg. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. xiv, 365 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.95.) Joseph Keith Joseph Keith Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
The title of Stephen Tuck's compelling book is refreshingly direct—but also a little misleading. The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union tells the fascinating and previously little-known tale of Malcolm X's speech on December 3, 1964, at the Oxford Union, perhaps the most elite student debating organization in Britain, if not the world. But the night is not in fact the book's central concern. (Indeed, we do not come to the night Malcolm X s…
African Students in Great Britain
The writer of this article served in the administration of Northern Rhodesia, and is now in charge of the Welfare Department of the Colonial Office
Native Progress in Northern Rhodesia
NATIVE PROGRESS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA J. L. KEITH J. L. KEITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVI, Issue CXLV, October 1937, Pages 482–489, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101486 Published: 01 October 1937
African Students in Great Britain
The writer of this article served in the administration of Northern Rhodesia, and is now in charge of the Welfare Department of the Colonial Office
What Went Wrong: Reappraising the "Politics" of Theory
What Went Wrong?Reappraising the "Politics" of Theory Joseph Keith (bio) Review of: Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right. New York: Columbia UP, 2006. What went wrong? How to explain the dismal state of today's political landscape in the U.S.--with neoconservatism and free-market triumphalism in such dominance and the left in a state of apparent haplessness? According to Timothy Brennan in Wars of Position: T…
Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II
(2009). Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II. The Black Scholar: Vol. 39, Richard Wright: Centennial Conference, American University of Paris June 17–20, 2008, pp. 51-58
At the Formal Limits: C. L. R. James,Moby Dickand the Politics of the Realist Novel
Through a reading of C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (a reading of Melville's Moby Dick, which James wrote while imprisoned on Ellis Island in 1952 awaiting deportation hearings), this essay examines James's effort to rethink – through an anti-colonial and Marxist lens – the political limits of the novel form in general and the realist novel in particular as representational regimes. The essay begins by examining how James uses…
Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903 Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse
Book Review| September 01 2015 Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903 Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903. By Thomas, Rhondda Robinson. Waco, TX: Baylor Univ. Press. 2013. 208 pp.$34.95.Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse. By Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder. New Brunswick,…
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
The title of Stephen Tuck's compelling book is refreshingly direct—but also a little misleading. The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union tells the fascinating and previously little-known tale of Malcolm X's speech on December 3, 1964, at the Oxford Union, perhaps the most elite student debating organization in Britain, if not the world. But the night is not in fact the book's central concern. (Indeed, we do not come to the night Malcolm X s…
Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War; Mainstreaming Black Power
Black power's image as a politically radical movement of black rage that achieved spectacular, albeit fleeting, national and international renown during the 1960s and 1970s, has seemed, at times, all but historically settled. Over the past two decades, however, a growing body of scholarship has set out—from myriad historical, theoretical, and methodological angles—to unsettle and broaden our understanding of the history and political afterlife of…
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960
During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un -assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant Ameri…
The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific
Journal Article Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific Get access Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific. By Lauren Hirshberg. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. xiv, 365 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.95.) Joseph Keith Joseph Keith Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Thinking Small: Islands and the Imperial Logics of Scale
This essay examines how the meaning of small islands has shifted in our neoliberal present, in ways that reveal changing imperial, in particular US imperial, formations. Opening with a focus on Guam, I suggest that smallness not only invokes a long-standing colonial rhetoric about islands: namely, a relational logic used to render the island's subordination as natural. Rather, smallness has also become an absolute term; it can, and has, become, t…
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