Browsing Duke Scholarly Works by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "African & African American Studies"
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A History of the Republic of Biafra
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A Nation on Paper: Making a State in the Republic of Biafra
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2020-10)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>What role did law play in articulating sovereignty and citizenship in postcolonial Africa? Using legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra, this article analyzes the ... -
Archival research in Africa
(African Affairs, 2017-04-01) -
Capturing Emancipation
(Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 2021-04-01)<jats:p>Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel ... -
Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler
(Anthropological Quarterly, 2018) -
From Crime to Coercion: Policing Dissent in Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1900–1940
(Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2019-05-04)© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Indirect rule figured prominently in Nigeria’s colonial administration, but historians understand more about the abstract tenets of this administrative ... -
Gaining ground: Squatters and the right to the city
(2017-01-01)This essay concerns the history of squatting in Cape Town beginning in the early to mid-twentieth century and concluding after the transition to democracy. It focuses specifically on a series of contiguous settlements in ... -
Genetic ancestry, skin color and social attainment: The four cities study.
(PloS one, 2020-01)INTRODUCTION:The Black population in the US is heterogeneous but is often treated as monolithic in research, with skin pigmentation being the primary indicator of racial classification. Objective: This paper examines the ... -
Introduction
(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) -
Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19
(Cultural Dynamics, 2021-08-01)This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural ... -
Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)
(American Anthropologist, 2021-10-18) -
Policing and the limits of the political imagination in postcolonial Nigeria
(Radical History Review, 2020-05-01)© 2020 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. Nigeria’s police forces are famously ineffective and unpopular. Police agencies carry the dual stigma of having colonial origins and close connections to the military ... -
Sickle cell disease is a global prototype for integrative research and healthcare
(Advanced Genetics, 2021-03) -
"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory Interview with Kristian Petersen
(Religious Studies News, 2020-07-30) -
The Impact of Environmental Factors on Monogenic Mendelian Diseases.
(Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2021-03-02)Environmental factors and gene-environment interactions modify the variable expressivity, progression, severity, and onset of some classic (monogenic) Mendelian-inherited genetic diseases. Cystic Fibrosis, Huntington Disease, ... -
The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology
(Transforming Anthropology, 2021-10-01)In 1909 Franz Boas conducted a massive study entitled Changes in Bodily Forms of Descendants of Immigrants. In this study, he demonstrated that Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the United States were not racially ... -
The Sickle Cell Disease Ontology: Enabling universal sickle cell-based knowledge representation
(Database, 2019-11-01)© The Author(s) 2019. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common monogenic diseases in humans with multiple phenotypic expressions that can manifest as both acute and chronic complications. Although described more ... -
Trump, Zuma, Brexit: anti-Black racism and the truth of the world
(Safundi, 2020-01-01)“Trump, Zuma, Brexit” aims to articulate a new theory of the “world historical” reversing the relationship of north and south–of “universal knowledge” and “raw fact”–instead establishing a theoretical ground from the southern ...
