Tashima Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tashima Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tashima |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kutztown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liquid Portraits & Aquapelagic Interiors
Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007
Afro-Gothic
The introduction presents Afro-Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding the various works in the special issue, which includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Taking up Cauleen Smith's Crow Requiem (2015) as its point of departure, the authors discuss how the experimental video illustrates Afro-Gothic sensibilities in its allegorizing the ambient feeling of precarious and collective vulnerability to gra…
Aestheticizing the Void”
The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro-Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit of camaraderie and intellectual curiosity, contributors consider meanings of the Afro-Gothic from various disciplines and diasporic perspectives. The participants discuss the ways in which horror, haunting, the uncanny, the monstrous, and the fantastic are manifest in black aes…
An Ecocritical Look at Flint's Water Crisis and Afro-Gothic Liquidity
In 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply to the Flint River - the unofficial toxic waste disposal site for meatpacking plants, car factories, and lumber and paper mills, as well as the city's depository of agricultural and urban runoff and untreated raw sewage. In what may be viewed as the Gothic trope of the "poisoned well," the Flint water crisis has directly affected a mostly African American population whe…
Diagram of the Heart Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, New York November 18, 2016–February 26, 2017
The exhibition “Diagram of the Heart” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) featured fifteen photographs by photographer Glenna Gordon and an installation of an assortment of Hausa novels. The exhibition was curated by Elliott Brown, Jr., Exhibitions Coordinator of MoCADA. The introductory wall text informed the viewer that littattafan soyayya, or “books of love,” is a literary genre specific to Kano, Nigeria. The self-publ…
Modern Abyssinia
Afro-Gothic
The introduction presents Afro-Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding the various works in the special issue, which includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Taking up Cauleen Smith's Crow Requiem (2015) as its point of departure, the authors discuss how the experimental video illustrates Afro-Gothic sensibilities in its allegorizing the ambient feeling of precarious and collective vulnerability to gra…
Aestheticizing the Void”
The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro-Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit of camaraderie and intellectual curiosity, contributors consider meanings of the Afro-Gothic from various disciplines and diasporic perspectives. The participants discuss the ways in which horror, haunting, the uncanny, the monstrous, and the fantastic are manifest in black aes…
An Ecocritical Look at Flint's Water Crisis and Afro-Gothic Liquidity
In 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply to the Flint River - the unofficial toxic waste disposal site for meatpacking plants, car factories, and lumber and paper mills, as well as the city's depository of agricultural and urban runoff and untreated raw sewage. In what may be viewed as the Gothic trope of the "poisoned well," the Flint water crisis has directly affected a mostly African American population whe…
Modern Abyssinia
Modern Abyssinia
Diagram of the Heart Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, New York November 18, 2016–February 26, 2017
The exhibition “Diagram of the Heart” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) featured fifteen photographs by photographer Glenna Gordon and an installation of an assortment of Hausa novels. The exhibition was curated by Elliott Brown, Jr., Exhibitions Coordinator of MoCADA. The introductory wall text informed the viewer that littattafan soyayya, or “books of love,” is a literary genre specific to Kano, Nigeria. The self-publ…
Afro-Gothic
The introduction presents Afro-Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding the various works in the special issue, which includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Taking up Cauleen Smith's Crow Requiem (2015) as its point of departure, the authors discuss how the experimental video illustrates Afro-Gothic sensibilities in its allegorizing the ambient feeling of precarious and collective vulnerability to gra…
Aestheticizing the Void”
The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro-Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit of camaraderie and intellectual curiosity, contributors consider meanings of the Afro-Gothic from various disciplines and diasporic perspectives. The participants discuss the ways in which horror, haunting, the uncanny, the monstrous, and the fantastic are manifest in black aes…
An Ecocritical Look at Flint's Water Crisis and Afro-Gothic Liquidity
In 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply to the Flint River - the unofficial toxic waste disposal site for meatpacking plants, car factories, and lumber and paper mills, as well as the city's depository of agricultural and urban runoff and untreated raw sewage. In what may be viewed as the Gothic trope of the "poisoned well," the Flint water crisis has directly affected a mostly African American population whe…
Liquid Portraits & Aquapelagic Interiors
Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007
Art (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)