Aisha Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aisha Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 UCLA Department of Gender Studies and African American Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Haunted Flesh and Chaos Theory
This article explores the gendered afterlife of slave rebellions, building on historical and sociological scholarship that takes death and haunting as central analytics. It focuses on a moment of state repression in Cuba in 1844, in the aftermath of two substantive slave insurgencies, and the movement of enslaved and free people of color known as La Escalera. While a voluminous colonial record has documented the spectacle of public punishment in …
The Common Wind
Julius Scott's The Common Wind, published at last, is quite simply a masterful work.Originally written as a Duke doctoral dissertation in 1986, it has been circulated among scholars of comparative slavery, the Atlantic World, the Age of Revolution, and the African Diaspora for over three decades, animating the scholarship and electrifying the imaginations of students and scholars alike.Even in its unpublished form, it powerfully shaped the ways i…
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The Common Wind
Julius Scott's The Common Wind, published at last, is quite simply a masterful work.Originally written as a Duke doctoral dissertation in 1986, it has been circulated among scholars of comparative slavery, the Atlantic World, the Age of Revolution, and the African Diaspora for over three decades, animating the scholarship and electrifying the imaginations of students and scholars alike.Even in its unpublished form, it powerfully shaped the ways i…
Haunted Flesh and Chaos Theory
This article explores the gendered afterlife of slave rebellions, building on historical and sociological scholarship that takes death and haunting as central analytics. It focuses on a moment of state repression in Cuba in 1844, in the aftermath of two substantive slave insurgencies, and the movement of enslaved and free people of color known as La Escalera. While a voluminous colonial record has documented the spectacle of public punishment in …
Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Afterlife (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work)