Melina Pappademos
Biographic Data
| ID | 702403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melina Pappademos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melina |
| FAMILY NAME | Pappademos |
| SIGNATURE | PAPPADEMOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theorizing the Afropolitan Past and Present
The term Afropolitan-evoking the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has enjoyed some salience in popular culture. However, much of the scholarly debate has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Linked initially to short reflective pieces by Taiye Selasi in 2005 and Achille Mbembe in 2007, Afropolitanism has rarely been analyzed in historical contexts. The contributors engage th…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres. Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948
Between 1898 and 1948, the islands of the Caribbean underwent tremendous migratory flux. The collective impacts of nation building and imperialist expansion, economic restructuring and downturns, cyclical ebbs and flows of sugar production, and world wars pulled and pushed hundreds of thousands of Caribbean people, mostly of African descent, to leave home and family for wages abroad. Following Cuban independence in 1898, the sugar industry there …
Violent Entanglements
Kathleen López. Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History
Manuel Barcia. The Great Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas
This book moves beyond immediate questions of slave labor regime structures in colonial Cuba by offering a significant examination of the 1825 slave revolt in Guamacaro, a rural locality in the plantation countryside of western Cuba. One of the chief inspirations for the book, according to Manuel Barcia, is the paucity of scholarship on slave uprisings in Cuba between the well-documented 1812 Aponte rebellion and 1844 La Escalera conspiracy. For …
Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. This book analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic. The path to equality, the author reveals, was often stymied by successive political and economic crises, patronage politics, and profound racia…
Political changüí’: Race, political culture, and black civic activism in the early Cuban republic
This article examines race and the structure of republican Cuban politics after Spanish colonialism ended in 1898. It discusses the structural role of patronage and political sociability in the transition from colony to republic, alongside ideas circulating about political modernity, democracy, and civil society. The article places special emphasis on black civic activism and uses race as its central lens to understand the political forces unleas…
The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
In a short, provocative essay published in 1988, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak posed a powerful question: can the subaltern speak? Spivak rejected the notion that those outside of society’s loci of structural power are rendered marginal to the point of silence and invisibility. Subaltern experiences, she argued, were not only audible and visible but were knowable and heterogeneous. Lisa Yun aptly takes up this transformative call in The Coolie Speak…
Violent Entanglements
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. This book analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic. The path to equality, the author reveals, was often stymied by successive political and economic crises, patronage politics, and profound racia…
Political changüí’: Race, political culture, and black civic activism in the early Cuban republic
This article examines race and the structure of republican Cuban politics after Spanish colonialism ended in 1898. It discusses the structural role of patronage and political sociability in the transition from colony to republic, alongside ideas circulating about political modernity, democracy, and civil society. The article places special emphasis on black civic activism and uses race as its central lens to understand the political forces unleas…
The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
In a short, provocative essay published in 1988, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak posed a powerful question: can the subaltern speak? Spivak rejected the notion that those outside of society’s loci of structural power are rendered marginal to the point of silence and invisibility. Subaltern experiences, she argued, were not only audible and visible but were knowable and heterogeneous. Lisa Yun aptly takes up this transformative call in The Coolie Speak…
Manuel Barcia. The Great Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas
This book moves beyond immediate questions of slave labor regime structures in colonial Cuba by offering a significant examination of the 1825 slave revolt in Guamacaro, a rural locality in the plantation countryside of western Cuba. One of the chief inspirations for the book, according to Manuel Barcia, is the paucity of scholarship on slave uprisings in Cuba between the well-documented 1812 Aponte rebellion and 1844 La Escalera conspiracy. For …
Kathleen López. Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History
Violent Entanglements
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres. Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948
Between 1898 and 1948, the islands of the Caribbean underwent tremendous migratory flux. The collective impacts of nation building and imperialist expansion, economic restructuring and downturns, cyclical ebbs and flows of sugar production, and world wars pulled and pushed hundreds of thousands of Caribbean people, mostly of African descent, to leave home and family for wages abroad. Following Cuban independence in 1898, the sugar industry there …
Theorizing the Afropolitan Past and Present
The term Afropolitan-evoking the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has enjoyed some salience in popular culture. However, much of the scholarly debate has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Linked initially to short reflective pieces by Taiye Selasi in 2005 and Achille Mbembe in 2007, Afropolitanism has rarely been analyzed in historical contexts. The contributors engage th…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cuban History and Society (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Economic history (3 works)