Michelle D Commander
Biographic Data
| ID | 795571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle D Commander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle D |
| FAMILY NAME | Commander |
| SIGNATURE | COMMANDER M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Avidly Reads Passages
What the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus can teach us about Southern Black life in America In Avidly Reads Passages , Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what …
Plantation Counternarratives: Disrupting Master Accounts in Contemporary Cultural Production
Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet
Reviewed by: Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet Michelle D. Commander (bio) Tillet, Salamishah. Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. During her monologue, the ghost child and titular character of Toni Morrison’s Beloved recalls the Middle Passage, offering a sharp critique of the US Reconstruction pr…
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream Michelle D. Commander Eager to share about her first trip to Ghana, my friend Rosalyn overflowed with stories from her twenty-three-hour journey. None was more interesting, however, than her recollection of her flight into Accra. An African American tour group had been on her connecting flight through Amsterdam, and some of its members openly expressed their excitement about travelin…
Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream Michelle D. Commander Eager to share about her first trip to Ghana, my friend Rosalyn overflowed with stories from her twenty-three-hour journey. None was more interesting, however, than her recollection of her flight into Accra. An African American tour group had been on her connecting flight through Amsterdam, and some of its members openly expressed their excitement about travelin…
Plantation Counternarratives: Disrupting Master Accounts in Contemporary Cultural Production
Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream
Ghana at Fifty: Moving Toward Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Dream Michelle D. Commander Eager to share about her first trip to Ghana, my friend Rosalyn overflowed with stories from her twenty-three-hour journey. None was more interesting, however, than her recollection of her flight into Accra. An African American tour group had been on her connecting flight through Amsterdam, and some of its members openly expressed their excitement about travelin…
Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet
Reviewed by: Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet Michelle D. Commander (bio) Tillet, Salamishah. Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. During her monologue, the ghost child and titular character of Toni Morrison’s Beloved recalls the Middle Passage, offering a sharp critique of the US Reconstruction pr…
Plantation Counternarratives: Disrupting Master Accounts in Contemporary Cultural Production
Avidly Reads Passages
What the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus can teach us about Southern Black life in America In Avidly Reads Passages , Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what …
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)