Lisa B Y Calvente
Biographic Data
| ID | 640379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa B Y Calvente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa B Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Calvente |
| SIGNATURE | CALVENTE L B Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thingified Flesh: A Womanist Approach to De/Colonial Reproductive Politics and Research
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Borrowing from Black Studies theorist, Barnor Hesse, I have identified Lorde’s structural, multi-headed monster and its duration through repeated colonial violence as “white sovereignty” (Calvente 271; Hesse 517).2 In Columbus’ biography, his son, Ferdinand Columbus describes how the tribute system to Catholic Sovereigns occurred every three months and, for…
A haunting presence: Archiving black absence and racialized mappings in Louisiana plantation sites
This article argues that slavery and racial terror continue to haunt the narrative of the nation state. Through an analysis of Louisiana’s plantation sites and tours the authors examine the presence of black absence in their visual organization. We suggest that the historical but hereto little explored connection between the plantation site and the city of New Orleans is one that continues into the present day through Louisiana’s tourist economy.…
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the Covid-19 pandemic
The article argues the covid-19 pandemic – including its laws and representations – has produced a context in which normalized crisis has become both abnormal and unacceptable. By examining a series of circulated images, this article highlights how the ordinances of the pandemic brought about a break in the racialized and racist normalcy of Black death and response. In doing so, it argues that racism and colonial violence are essential to white s…
Here is something you can't understand: The suffocating whiteness of communication studies
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors ad…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
From the Rotten Apple to the State of Empire: Neoliberalism, Hip Hop, and New York City's Crisis
This article analyzes representations of hip hop culture alongside of the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis to reflect how responses to the crisis transformed the city once heavily invested in public resources into a model of neoliberal success. The article highlights how hip hop becomes a focal point of urban racial and class crisis through media representation, which helped mask the urban landscape’s neoliberal transformation. It also argues tha…
The City Speaks: Dis/articulating revolutionary Havana, Cuba, and global belonging
This essay examines how revolution as a concept is deployed, appropriated, and refashioned through the public images that dot the urban landscape in Havana, Cuba. It explores how revolution is imagined and re-imagined in government billboards, photographs, murals, graffiti, and other forms of public images. It also illustrates how these resulting imageries are used, as bell hooks describes, to ‘talk back’ to the current issues of globalization an…
Twenty-first century color lines: Multiracial change in contemporary America
Twenty-first century color lines: multiracial change in contemporary America, edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas and Gary Orfield, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2009, xii + 312 pp., $74.50 (har
Here is something you can't understand: The suffocating whiteness of communication studies
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors ad…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
Twenty-first century color lines: Multiracial change in contemporary America
Twenty-first century color lines: multiracial change in contemporary America, edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas and Gary Orfield, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2009, xii + 312 pp., $74.50 (har
The City Speaks: Dis/articulating revolutionary Havana, Cuba, and global belonging
This essay examines how revolution as a concept is deployed, appropriated, and refashioned through the public images that dot the urban landscape in Havana, Cuba. It explores how revolution is imagined and re-imagined in government billboards, photographs, murals, graffiti, and other forms of public images. It also illustrates how these resulting imageries are used, as bell hooks describes, to ‘talk back’ to the current issues of globalization an…
From the Rotten Apple to the State of Empire: Neoliberalism, Hip Hop, and New York City's Crisis
This article analyzes representations of hip hop culture alongside of the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis to reflect how responses to the crisis transformed the city once heavily invested in public resources into a model of neoliberal success. The article highlights how hip hop becomes a focal point of urban racial and class crisis through media representation, which helped mask the urban landscape’s neoliberal transformation. It also argues tha…
Crisis subjectivities: Resilient, Recuperable, and Abject Representations in the New Hard Times
In this paper, we explore a range of media representations that center on what we identify as crisis subjectivities. These are subjects presented as embodiments of economic and political crises, coming out of a context best described as the propagation of crisis as an ordinary, everyday occurrence. We trace the development of three main types of crisis subjectivities (resilient, recuperable, and abject) within this context, focusing on the ways i…
Here is something you can't understand: The suffocating whiteness of communication studies
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors ad…
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the Covid-19 pandemic
The article argues the covid-19 pandemic – including its laws and representations – has produced a context in which normalized crisis has become both abnormal and unacceptable. By examining a series of circulated images, this article highlights how the ordinances of the pandemic brought about a break in the racialized and racist normalcy of Black death and response. In doing so, it argues that racism and colonial violence are essential to white s…
A haunting presence: Archiving black absence and racialized mappings in Louisiana plantation sites
This article argues that slavery and racial terror continue to haunt the narrative of the nation state. Through an analysis of Louisiana’s plantation sites and tours the authors examine the presence of black absence in their visual organization. We suggest that the historical but hereto little explored connection between the plantation site and the city of New Orleans is one that continues into the present day through Louisiana’s tourist economy.…
Thingified Flesh: A Womanist Approach to De/Colonial Reproductive Politics and Research
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Borrowing from Black Studies theorist, Barnor Hesse, I have identified Lorde’s structural, multi-headed monster and its duration through repeated colonial violence as “white sovereignty” (Calvente 271; Hesse 517).2 In Columbus’ biography, his son, Ferdinand Columbus describes how the tribute system to Catholic Sovereigns occurred every three months and, for…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)