Kashif Jerome Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kashif Jerome Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kashif Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Year of the Ballot or the Bullet”
America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody ... Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems ... But today this country can become involved in a
Making #BlackLivesMatter
This article situates the loss of Michael Brown and Eric Garner within the affective resonance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade's afterlife. Building upon critical theories of performance and memory that position nonexistence as the generative force of Black life, I interrogate the activism sparked by the untimely death of Brown and Garner as a performative, death-derived absence dramatized through the bodies of protestors. Engaging the body as t…
[Black Boys ^ Jena (1 Tree + 2 Nooses) – Civil Liberties] / 1 Indivisible Nation = an Auto-ethnographic Performance of the Jena Six
With the Jena Six incident as a catalyst, this auto-ethnographic performance uses Foucault's Discipline and Punish to assert that the theatrical performance of lynching bleeds into our conceptual understanding of race. Consequently, blackness is understood in terms of what Watts and Orbe term "spectacular consumption," the pleasurable consumption of the other. Each of the four characters struggle to define their black male identity outside the li…
Making #BlackLivesMatter
This article situates the loss of Michael Brown and Eric Garner within the affective resonance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade's afterlife. Building upon critical theories of performance and memory that position nonexistence as the generative force of Black life, I interrogate the activism sparked by the untimely death of Brown and Garner as a performative, death-derived absence dramatized through the bodies of protestors. Engaging the body as t…
The Year of the Ballot or the Bullet”
America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody ... Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems ... But today this country can become involved in a
[Black Boys ^ Jena (1 Tree + 2 Nooses) – Civil Liberties] / 1 Indivisible Nation = an Auto-ethnographic Performance of the Jena Six
With the Jena Six incident as a catalyst, this auto-ethnographic performance uses Foucault's Discipline and Punish to assert that the theatrical performance of lynching bleeds into our conceptual understanding of race. Consequently, blackness is understood in terms of what Watts and Orbe term "spectacular consumption," the pleasurable consumption of the other. Each of the four characters struggle to define their black male identity outside the li…
[Black Boys ^ Jena (1 Tree + 2 Nooses) – Civil Liberties] / 1 Indivisible Nation = an Auto-ethnographic Performance of the Jena Six
With the Jena Six incident as a catalyst, this auto-ethnographic performance uses Foucault's Discipline and Punish to assert that the theatrical performance of lynching bleeds into our conceptual understanding of race. Consequently, blackness is understood in terms of what Watts and Orbe term "spectacular consumption," the pleasurable consumption of the other. Each of the four characters struggle to define their black male identity outside the li…
The Year of the Ballot or the Bullet”
America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody ... Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems ... But today this country can become involved in a
Making #BlackLivesMatter
This article situates the loss of Michael Brown and Eric Garner within the affective resonance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade's afterlife. Building upon critical theories of performance and memory that position nonexistence as the generative force of Black life, I interrogate the activism sparked by the untimely death of Brown and Garner as a performative, death-derived absence dramatized through the bodies of protestors. Engaging the body as t…
Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Afterlife (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)