Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "African and African American Studies"
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Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face-to-face Surveys in the Domain of Race and Social Inequality Attitudes
(SAGE Publications, 2015)The authors investigate the potential utility of Web-based surveys of non-full-probabilistically sampled respondents for social science research. Specifically, they compare demographic, attitude response, and multivariate ... -
The Celtic Nations and the African Americas
(Informa UK Limited, 2010) -
A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)Has Barack Obama's success transformed the racial divide? Did he somehow transcend or help bring to an end centuries of racial division in the United States? Did he deliberately run a strategically race-neutral, race-evading ... -
Children’s Books, Dolls, and the Performance of Race; or, The Possibility of Children’s Literature
(The Modern Language Association of America, 2011) -
China in West Africa’s regional development and security plans
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015)This article argues that we are presently in another global economic transition. The old centres of growth have witnessed serious economic reverses with several countries going into ‘receivership’ in the West – Greece, ... -
Circus Aesthetics, Travel, History, and Mourning in the Poetry of Robert Hayden
(2016-02-16)Circus Aesthetics examines the work of the African American poet Robert Hayden and engages with the problem of identifying different frameworks with which to think about Hayden’s poetry and African American literature more ... -
Claiming Human Dignity
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the ... -
Come Back Aesthetics
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Community versus Market: A Note on Corporate Villages
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)We return to the literature on collective villages and reexamine its central arguments. In doing so, we focus on an institution for allocating land that we call the Rule. As claimed by its advocates, the Rule secures land ... -
Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1997) -
Comparing Customary Rules of Fairness: Evaluative Practices in Various Types of Peer Review Panels
(University of Chicago Press, 2011) -
Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)This exploratory study makes a contribution to the literature on antiracism by unpacking the cultural categories through which <i>everyday antiracism</i> is experienced and practiced by extraordinarily successful African ... -
Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada
(Duke University Press, 2005) -
The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development: Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications Part I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
(The World Bank, 2012)Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women’s economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It ... -
Cooperation by Design: Leadership, Structure, and Collective Dilemmas
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)We return to the analysis of cooperation among interdependent rational individuals. We emphasize the limited impact of iteration (or repeated play) and explore the possibility of an alternative: intervention by rational ... -
Crime, Urban Poverty, and Social Science
(Cambridge University Press, 2009) -
Cross-National Analysis of the Associations between Traumatic Events and Suicidal Behavior: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Background Community and clinical data have suggested there is an association between trauma exposure and suicidal behavior (i.e., suicide ideation, plans and attempts). However, few studies have assessed which traumas are ... -
Cultural Capital and the Liberal Political Attitudes of Professionals: Comment on Brint
(University of Chicago Press, 1987) -
Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race
(Duke University Press, 2009)Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of "why" to "how" with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the "scriptive thing," to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation ...