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Introduction
No full textThis special issue of the renamed Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies builds on an earlier (2013) special issue’s investigations into new writing from the continent of Africa. The new issue focuses specifically on African writers in the United States -- whether the writers were born in the US, attended school in the US, or are currently based in the US. The introduction sets out some of the demographic factors -- push and pull factors in African migration to the US -- and draws attention to the importance of American MFA programs not only in attracting would-be writers to US universities but also in setting up networks with agents and publishers. Two of the most important themes in the three articles, three practitioner essays, interview, and review essay that make up the issue pertain to the impact of online publishing and networking, and the relationship between Africans and African Americans. In relation to the latter theme, while it would be reassuring to think that the current boom in US publishing of African writers represents a wider American interest in all things African, the success of these novels may also have to do with the fact that so many are actually set in the United States, whether wholly or in part. The recurrent theme of immigration to the US gives many NGANA novels direct – and salutary – relevance to US readers, non-African ones as well as fellow non-resident Africans. As Black outsiders in the United States, African immigrants have a particularly acute insight into the way race and racism affect daily life in this country, and the way racial discrimination intersects with other forms of prejudice.
The work of African writers in the US represents an extraordinarily rich strand of contemporary global postcolonial expression. Maybe, too, it can offer a productive challenge to those of us who teach African literature in the US to see our pedagogy, as Vincent Ogoti suggests, as part of a practice of “un-scarring: of piecing together the full, messy story” of Africans in the Americas so that “the wound itself becomes a source of collective understanding rather than mere spectacle.
Desrosiers, Marie-Eve. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide.
No full textReview of: Desrosiers, Marie-Eve. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023
Adamovsky, Ezequiel. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present.
No full textReview of: Adamovsky, Ezequiel. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024
Nti, Kwaku. Maritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast
No full textReview of: Nti, Kwaku. Maritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024
Dore, Elizabeth. How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
No full textReview of: Dore, Elizabeth. How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023
The Wounds Time Does Not Heal: A Case of Historical Pitfalls and the Present-Day Identification of a U.S. Marine from World War II
No full textThe segregation and subsequent identification of skeletal remains from commingled contexts is a multifaceted and complicated process. Success or failure in this process relies heavily on training and experience, both during archaeological recovery and anthropological analysis. This case study details the identification of a World War II service member associated with the Battle of Tarawa, drawing on multiple lines of evidence. Historical context, recovery, and analysis of the remains resulted in a misidentification of this individual in 1946. Present-day accounting efforts by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), including the use of historical research, anthropological analysis, dental analysis, and DNA, were used to segregate and ultimately associate skeletal material recovered from three different recovery operations on Tarawa, leading to the correct identification of this service member in 2024
Biological Anthropology in Namibia: Quantitative Parameters of the Gonial Angle and Mastoid Process for Sex Estimation
No full textCurrent standardized methods for sex estimation using the cranial bones involve evaluating landmarks and defining them as feminine, neutral, or masculine, if possible. These methods rely on population-specific data to minimize margin of error, and much controversy exists around the reliability based on the significance of the difference between male and female sex. Sex determination is still a vital component of constructing a biological profile in the identification of skeletal remains. Biological anthropology has only recently been diploid in Namibia, and to date, a benchmark for population-specific data to determine sex using qualitative methods has not been established. This study, therefore, aimed to establish qualitative parameters and evaluate the efficiency at which they can be used to accurately determine biological sex in males and females for victim identification. This study concluded that statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in mean and variance can be observed between male and female (1) gonial angles and (2) mastoid process length. This study also observed that despite the significant difference in measures of central location, a great degree of range overlap is seen in the gonial angle and mastoid process length. This study concluded that by using qualitative measurements and combining evaluations of at least two clear landmarks on the cranium, accurate sex estimation can be completed 68% to 70% of the time. The landmarks were limited to ones clearly displayed and measurable on archived radio-images while considering transferable osteologic measurements
ADHD and Rhetorics of Delinquency
No full textThis essay investigates the contemporary association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and delinquent behavior. Long before its diagnostic appearance as ADD in the DSM III (1980), youth behavior associated with hyperactivity and impulsivity was rhetorically situated within an ecology of delinquency science which yoked these behaviors to criminality. Because rhetorics of criminality are profoundly racialized in the U.S., a close study of ADHD and delinquency must contend with the ways racial discourses have determined conceptualizations of juvenile behavior, particularly in educational contexts. Through an analysis of two rhetorical case studies, I demonstrate how hyperactivity and restlessness were initially associated with delinquency by proponents of the mental hygiene movement in the 1920s. The same behaviors were later imbued with sinister and antisocial meanings by a white public responding to school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Seen from this perspective, the contemporary rhetoric of ADHD can be understood as a type of delinquency rhetoric from its inception.
2023 RHM Symposium Opening Keynote: Sustaining a Dwelling Place for RHM
No full textThe following article is a rendering of the opening keynote speech given by Dr. Kimberly Harper at the 2023 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Symposium that took place in Minneapolis, MN on October 13–14, 2023