Mark W Deets
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark W Deets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark W |
| FAMILY NAME | Deets |
| SIGNATURE | DEETS M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5516-4729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alternative Futures through West African Agency in the Past
In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, Columbia journalism professor Howard W. French introduces his latest book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, by arguing that it may now be time to bring Kwame Nkrumah's vision of a “United States of Africa” to fruition.1 French asserts, “Driven by his belief in Pan-Africanism, Mr. Nkrumah worked tirelessly to overcome the Balkanizing impact of colonial rul…
Ambiguous Echoes of the Colonial Partition
A West African Spider-Man and the Enduring Concept of “the Stranger”
The footage was dramatic. The “Spiderman of Paris” quickly scaled four floors to save the four-year-old boy dangling from an apartment balcony. But the New York Times headline read, “Paris ‘Spider-Man’ Saves Young Boy. Cue Debate on Migrants.” The heroic actions of Mamoudou Gassama, a recent migrant from Mali—without papers—immediately placed migrants from West and North Africa at the center of a national conversation about what France owed its i…
A National Struggle
A national struggle: Senegalese wrestling and
Grown-Ups on White Plastic Chairs
I argue that the postcolonial Senegalese soccer stadium became a space for imagining and performing the nation for separatists from the Casamance region who tied their separatist discourse to the fortunes of Casa-Sports, a soccer club based in Ziguinchor. The twin histories of Casamançais soccer and separatism demonstrate the interplay of “space” and “place” in the stadium – constructed originally for defining and controlling the Senegalese natio…
Grown-Ups on White Plastic Chairs
I argue that the postcolonial Senegalese soccer stadium became a space for imagining and performing the nation for separatists from the Casamance region who tied their separatist discourse to the fortunes of Casa-Sports, a soccer club based in Ziguinchor. The twin histories of Casamançais soccer and separatism demonstrate the interplay of “space” and “place” in the stadium – constructed originally for defining and controlling the Senegalese natio…
Grown-Ups on White Plastic Chairs
I argue that the postcolonial Senegalese soccer stadium became a space for imagining and performing the nation for separatists from the Casamance region who tied their separatist discourse to the fortunes of Casa-Sports, a soccer club based in Ziguinchor. The twin histories of Casamançais soccer and separatism demonstrate the interplay of “space” and “place” in the stadium – constructed originally for defining and controlling the Senegalese natio…
A National Struggle
A national struggle: Senegalese wrestling and
A West African Spider-Man and the Enduring Concept of “the Stranger”
The footage was dramatic. The “Spiderman of Paris” quickly scaled four floors to save the four-year-old boy dangling from an apartment balcony. But the New York Times headline read, “Paris ‘Spider-Man’ Saves Young Boy. Cue Debate on Migrants.” The heroic actions of Mamoudou Gassama, a recent migrant from Mali—without papers—immediately placed migrants from West and North Africa at the center of a national conversation about what France owed its i…
Alternative Futures through West African Agency in the Past
In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, Columbia journalism professor Howard W. French introduces his latest book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, by arguing that it may now be time to bring Kwame Nkrumah's vision of a “United States of Africa” to fruition.1 French asserts, “Driven by his belief in Pan-Africanism, Mr. Nkrumah worked tirelessly to overcome the Balkanizing impact of colonial rul…
Ambiguous Echoes of the Colonial Partition
African history and culture studies (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Biology (1 work)