Sureshi M Jayawardene
Biographic Data
| ID | 907288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sureshi M Jayawardene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sureshi M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayawardene |
| SIGNATURE | JAYAWARDENE S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9017-2612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter
This article is based on a content analysis of eight digital news reports published between June 2020 and March 2021 that link anti-Blackness in South Asia to the concerns of #BlackLivesMatter following George Floyd’s murder and the heightened global attention to issues of anti-Black racism against African Americans. In this study, I ask the following questions regarding these news reports: (1) How do these accounts present Afrodiasporic communit…
Black Cultural Mythology
Christel N. Temple's Black Cultural Mythology is a timely text, especially in an age when Black popular culture is permeated with attempts to construct, or reconstruct, Pan-African visions of Africana heritage and existence. It offers a thoroughly researched framework as well as “culturally organic” vocabulary for making sense of Afrodiasporic survivalist activity. Temple rejects what she terms as an “over-remembrance” of slavery, and, by extensi…
StoryMap(ping) Black Urban Experiences
Ceylon African Mānja performance
Ceylon Africans are an Afrodiasporic community in Sri Lanka and are the descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the island from the 16th–20th centuries. This article focuses on the deployment of Ceylon African mānja performances as an embodiment of memory and Afrodiasporic identity both in private and public spheres. I argue that Ceylon African mānja performances extend beyond an expression of identity and functions as an Africana aesthetic p…
Francis Cress Welsing’s Contributions to Africana Studies Epistemology
Francis Cress Welsing, a Black psychiatrist and medical school professor, advanced one of the most notable and controversial theories about the perpetuation of global White supremacy. The cress theory of color confrontation (CTCC) seeks to etiologically explain the varying degrees of White supremacist patterns of behavior that shape White interaction with Black people in particular and “non-White” people in general. White supremacy has been under…
Racialized Casteism
Pushing the Paradigm
This study locates the scholarship on the Siddis of India and the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka—two Africana communities in the Indian Ocean. Using Afrocentric theories and concepts, this study interrogates the limitations of extant scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs using a content analysis of select scholarly texts. Through this content analysis, the discursive decentralization of the history, culture, perspectives, and experiences of the Siddis and …
Pushing the Paradigm
This study locates the scholarship on the Siddis of India and the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka—two Africana communities in the Indian Ocean. Using Afrocentric theories and concepts, this study interrogates the limitations of extant scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs using a content analysis of select scholarly texts. Through this content analysis, the discursive decentralization of the history, culture, perspectives, and experiences of the Siddis and …
Racialized Casteism
Francis Cress Welsing’s Contributions to Africana Studies Epistemology
Francis Cress Welsing, a Black psychiatrist and medical school professor, advanced one of the most notable and controversial theories about the perpetuation of global White supremacy. The cress theory of color confrontation (CTCC) seeks to etiologically explain the varying degrees of White supremacist patterns of behavior that shape White interaction with Black people in particular and “non-White” people in general. White supremacy has been under…
Ceylon African Mānja performance
Ceylon Africans are an Afrodiasporic community in Sri Lanka and are the descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the island from the 16th–20th centuries. This article focuses on the deployment of Ceylon African mānja performances as an embodiment of memory and Afrodiasporic identity both in private and public spheres. I argue that Ceylon African mānja performances extend beyond an expression of identity and functions as an Africana aesthetic p…
StoryMap(ping) Black Urban Experiences
Black Cultural Mythology
Christel N. Temple's Black Cultural Mythology is a timely text, especially in an age when Black popular culture is permeated with attempts to construct, or reconstruct, Pan-African visions of Africana heritage and existence. It offers a thoroughly researched framework as well as “culturally organic” vocabulary for making sense of Afrodiasporic survivalist activity. Temple rejects what she terms as an “over-remembrance” of slavery, and, by extensi…
The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter
This article is based on a content analysis of eight digital news reports published between June 2020 and March 2021 that link anti-Blackness in South Asia to the concerns of #BlackLivesMatter following George Floyd’s murder and the heightened global attention to issues of anti-Black racism against African Americans. In this study, I ask the following questions regarding these news reports: (1) How do these accounts present Afrodiasporic communit…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works)