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  • Endnotes: Africans With(out) Crutches

    Posted: December 31, 2010, 8:51 pm by keguro
    An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa. When I say simply a black man, I do not mean that being a black man is simple, anywhere. . . . [W]hen he faces an African, he [...]

  • Endnote: Intimate A-Modernities

    Posted: December 31, 2010, 4:55 pm by keguro
    I have yet to return to Leo Africanus in any sustained way. What I knew about him in 2002, the moment of our first “encounter,” is probably outdated, if not misremembered. What sticks, a social hierarchy of Africa, based on religion, politics, architecture, skin color, and sexuality. An opening into African Queer Histories? Ovr ancient [...]
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