Michelle Ann Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Ann Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Studies from Yale University, and her undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The other country
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the scholar Paul Gilroy questioned the utility of the concept of “race.” Historicizing “raciological” drives in European concepts of nationality, Gilroy called for a change of scale from ethnos to species being. Unexpectedly, Sigmund Freud provided such a scale in his 1915 handwritten essay, “A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses.” In parsing the differences between “real” and …
Undoing the Dissociation of the Unthought Subject
A discussion of David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s reflections on the racial melancholia of the Asian American subject of history, especially in relation to affects of rage and guilt
Collisions in the Dark
At the end of the 1980s, Black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw offered intersectionality as a way to shift our attention to Black female subjectivity as a complex, multi-dimensional unfolding of identity. This essay focuses on how she situated that identity within, as she termed it, whiteness as “a single-axis framework of analysis.” In this respect, her discussion converged with that of her peer, the writer Toni Morrison, in the work, P…
Archipelagic American Studies
C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain, written by Christian Høgsbjerg
Internal racism
The Comic Side of Gender Trouble and Bert Williams' Signature Act
Using the turn of the century blackface performer Bert Williams as a case study, this essay explores how we might think about black male performativity in the New World as a historical formation, one that extends both over the time of modernity and across the space of diaspora. I draw from contemporary theories of circum-atlantic performance and black feminist studies of the impact of slavery on black racial and gendered identities, to argue that…
Black Empire
The Crusader stating the following: '' A Race without a program is like a ship at sea without a rudder.It is absolutely at the mercy of the elements.It is bu√eted hither and thither and in a storm is bound to flounder.It is in such a plight as this that the Negro race has drifted for the past fifty years and more.''∞ This statement, sponsored by Caribbean radical Cyril V. Briggs, the editor of the Crusader, on behalf of his militant revolutionary…
Disarticulating Black Internationalisms
Book Review| March 01 2005 Disarticulating Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions…
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution Michelle A. Stephens (bio) It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture. -Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture" In 1996, the American Studies Association Conference, entitled "Global Migration, Ameri…
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution Michelle A. Stephens (bio) It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture. -Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture" In 1996, the American Studies Association Conference, entitled "Global Migration, Ameri…
The Comic Side of Gender Trouble and Bert Williams' Signature Act
Using the turn of the century blackface performer Bert Williams as a case study, this essay explores how we might think about black male performativity in the New World as a historical formation, one that extends both over the time of modernity and across the space of diaspora. I draw from contemporary theories of circum-atlantic performance and black feminist studies of the impact of slavery on black racial and gendered identities, to argue that…
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution Michelle A. Stephens (bio) It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture. -Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture" In 1996, the American Studies Association Conference, entitled "Global Migration, Ameri…
Black Empire
The Crusader stating the following: '' A Race without a program is like a ship at sea without a rudder.It is absolutely at the mercy of the elements.It is bu√eted hither and thither and in a storm is bound to flounder.It is in such a plight as this that the Negro race has drifted for the past fifty years and more.''∞ This statement, sponsored by Caribbean radical Cyril V. Briggs, the editor of the Crusader, on behalf of his militant revolutionary…
Disarticulating Black Internationalisms
Book Review| March 01 2005 Disarticulating Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions…
The Comic Side of Gender Trouble and Bert Williams' Signature Act
Using the turn of the century blackface performer Bert Williams as a case study, this essay explores how we might think about black male performativity in the New World as a historical formation, one that extends both over the time of modernity and across the space of diaspora. I draw from contemporary theories of circum-atlantic performance and black feminist studies of the impact of slavery on black racial and gendered identities, to argue that…
Internal racism
C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain, written by Christian Høgsbjerg
Archipelagic American Studies
Collisions in the Dark
At the end of the 1980s, Black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw offered intersectionality as a way to shift our attention to Black female subjectivity as a complex, multi-dimensional unfolding of identity. This essay focuses on how she situated that identity within, as she termed it, whiteness as “a single-axis framework of analysis.” In this respect, her discussion converged with that of her peer, the writer Toni Morrison, in the work, P…
Undoing the Dissociation of the Unthought Subject
A discussion of David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s reflections on the racial melancholia of the Asian American subject of history, especially in relation to affects of rage and guilt
The other country
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the scholar Paul Gilroy questioned the utility of the concept of “race.” Historicizing “raciological” drives in European concepts of nationality, Gilroy called for a change of scale from ethnos to species being. Unexpectedly, Sigmund Freud provided such a scale in his 1915 handwritten essay, “A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses.” In parsing the differences between “real” and …
Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)