Jafari Sinclaire Allen

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Looking B[l]ack at Revolutionary Cuba

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Re-Reading Brother to Brother: Crucial Palimpses

January 3, 2016Uncategorizedjafariallen

ALLEN xi Rereading Brother to Brother

In the new RedBone Press edition of  Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men  http://www.redbonepress.com/products/brother-to-brother-ed-by-essex-hemphill

Re-reading Brother to Brother: Crucial Palimpsest

June 27, 2014Uncategorizedjafariallen

Introduction to the RedBone Press New Edition of Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men, Edited by Essex Hemphill, and conceived by Joseph Beam.

ALLEN xi Rereading Brother to Brother

A Few Provocations Toward Thinking ‘Diaspora’

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A Few Provocations Toward Thinking Diaspora

A Few Provocations Toward Thinking ‘Diaspora’

February 11, 2014Teaching, Uncategorizedjafariallen Leave a comment

A Few Provocations Toward Thinking Diaspora

Quoted in Tétu magazine

June 6, 2011Quotedjafariallen

Cuba

Click on the link above for an article on recent history of Cuban politics of homosexuality, from Fidel Castro to Mariela Castro Espín, by  Clément Perroualt, for Tétu magazine.  (In French)

A Glimpse through my spyglass

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Blogroll

  • Yale University, Department of African American Studies
  • Yale University, Department of Anthropology
  • Yale University, Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
  • Yale University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

Find my work Here!

  • 'One way or another': Erotic Subjectivity in Cuba
  • Crucial Palimpsest: Re-Reading Brother to Brother (New Introduction to Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men)
  • For “the Children” Dancing the Beloved Community
  • Left of Black
  • Looking at Cuba/ Looking Afro-Cuban
  • Looking B[l]ack at Revolutionary Cuba
  • Means Of Desire's Production: Male Sex Labor In Cuba
  • Perverse Modernities Series, Duke Press Catalog
  • Truth/Reconciliation: Morehouse on My Mind @ Racialicious
  • Yale University Books & Authors Netcast

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  • To President David A. Thomas, Twelfth President, Morehouse College, On the (Trans)Gender Policy
  • Looking B[l]ack at Revolutionary Cuba
  • Re-Reading Brother to Brother: Crucial Palimpses
  • Re-reading Brother to Brother: Crucial Palimpsest
  • A Few Provocations Toward Thinking ‘Diaspora’

Contact

Please email: booking@jafariallen.com to inquire about lectures and other events.

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