Brenda N Sanya
Biographic Data
| ID | 912600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda N Sanya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda N |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanya |
| SIGNATURE | SANYA B N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0270-4012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Utopia
Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewsBlack Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 190 pp. US$80.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231187404; US$26.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231187411; US$25.99 (e-book), ISBN 9780231547253.Brenda N. Sanya and Malathi M. IyengarBrenda N. SanyaColgate University Search for more articles by this author and Malathi M. IyengarCollege of Sa…
Conviviality and the making of difference
Our concern with conviviality in this special issue, 'Conviviality and the Making of Difference', emerges from an interest in interrogating and problematising how notions of the human and less than human come to be leveraged in the mobilisation of discourses and practices of conviviality in schools and society more broadly.We are particularly keen to understand the colonial logics that sustain the institutionalszation of conviviality in education…
Blackness, biopolitics, borders
Centreing the corporeal experiences and material significance of bodies lays bare the border as a site for social reproduction. Utilizing critical discourse analyses on three mediatized encounters – Abdi Nor Iftin, Amadou Diallo, and Ahmed Mohammed – between African immigrancy to the United States and that nation-state's surveillance of bodies discloses a key contradiction within those encounters: a mésalliance that positions Africans as an arche…
Desirable and disposable
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Towards decolonial praxis
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Transnational Perspectives
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Towards decolonial praxis
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Desirable and disposable
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Transnational Perspectives
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Towards decolonial praxis
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Desirable and disposable
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Blackness, biopolitics, borders
Centreing the corporeal experiences and material significance of bodies lays bare the border as a site for social reproduction. Utilizing critical discourse analyses on three mediatized encounters – Abdi Nor Iftin, Amadou Diallo, and Ahmed Mohammed – between African immigrancy to the United States and that nation-state's surveillance of bodies discloses a key contradiction within those encounters: a mésalliance that positions Africans as an arche…
Black Utopia
Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewsBlack Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 190 pp. US$80.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231187404; US$26.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231187411; US$25.99 (e-book), ISBN 9780231547253.Brenda N. Sanya and Malathi M. IyengarBrenda N. SanyaColgate University Search for more articles by this author and Malathi M. IyengarCollege of Sa…
Conviviality and the making of difference
Our concern with conviviality in this special issue, 'Conviviality and the Making of Difference', emerges from an interest in interrogating and problematising how notions of the human and less than human come to be leveraged in the mobilisation of discourses and practices of conviviality in schools and society more broadly.We are particularly keen to understand the colonial logics that sustain the institutionalszation of conviviality in education…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)