African-American, Music Film Culture, White-American 30 Dec 2013 Race, Apology, and Ani DiFranco The time of social media events is short, so writing a few words on Ani DiFranco's apology (or apologetically toned… John Drabinski 5 Comments
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial, The Profession 21 Dec 2013 Derrida, Eurocentrism, decolonization While I am not the biggest advocate of Aimé Césaire's work, I've always been taken in - in ways that… John Drabinski 1 Comment
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial 12 Dec 2013 Decolonizing the colonizer: three aspects What does it mean to decolonize the colonizer? In a previous post, I asked the question - which has largely… John Drabinski 1 Comment
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial 09 Dec 2013 On decolonizing the colonizer One of the central questions of my Levinas and the Postcolonial is why we haven't asked what should be a very… John Drabinski 2 Comments
African, Postcolonial 06 Dec 2013 Mbembe, democracy, animism Achille Mbembe's talk at Harvard University this past Thursday (4 December) set out the terms of a new project, described… John Drabinski 3 Comments
African-American 05 Dec 2013 Baldwin, race, identity In his 1964 essay “The White Problem,” dating from the period of the publication of The Fire Next Time, Baldwin… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Music Film Culture 04 Dec 2013 Baldwin, language, spirituals The function of the spirituals in the African-American intellectual tradition is well-known, especially in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Caribbean 03 Dec 2013 Baldwin, language, blackness In “Letter on Humanism,” a letter written to French theorist Jean Beaufret in response to the claim that his book… John Drabinski No Comments
