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Michaeline A. Crichlow

Michaeline A. Crichlow

Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
michaeline.crichlow@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections

A Spectral Decoloniality in the Wake of the Slave Nomos

Book section · January 1, 2025 An engagement with decoloniality from the place of Blackness is, invariably, a reckoning with time and the spectral. But rather than seeking an exorcism of ghostly things, we wish to address the ghosts haunting our times to grapple with the temporal comple ... Full text Cite

Decolonial Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality

Book section · January 1, 2025 In this essay, we advance an “interpretative analytic,” to address the character of the politics and strategic intent in Césaire’s poetics and life work. In so doing we focus on Césaire’s commitment to the method of poetics articulated through the movement ... Full text Cite

Whatever Happened to Diaspora, and Why Not Global-Blackness? Interrogating Black Time-Spaces for a Decolonial Agenda1

Book section · January 1, 2025 This historico-conceptual essay offers the concept of global-Blackness as a productive optic for exploring the relationship between race and Blackness and advancing a multidimensional decolonial project. In critical dialogue with the more popular invocatio ... Full text Cite

Plantations

Book section · December 2007 Cite

Stratification, Pluralism and Economic Power

Book section · 1991 Interview with Lloyd Brathwaite a prominent West Indian sociologist ... Cite