pathologizing the Black female body. Preceding 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation by at least a decade, Haile Gerima's film Sankofa (1993) confronts the horrors of slavery utilizing sexual violence as a central and repetitive trope. Disturbing
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Scenes of Subjection
Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
Z'étoile Imma
Editor's Introduction
Screening Transgression
Andrew J. Ball
violence and sex, and consider whether freedom can come from the collective experience of breaking those norms. In “Scenes of Subjection: Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa ,” Z'étoile Imma considers
Method-ological Mapping of Girlhood Studies
The Academic Landscapes of Girlhood
Halle Singh
Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls’ Studies .” In All about the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity , ed. Anita Harris , 15 – 27 . New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group . Waters , M. Billye Sankofa , Venus E. Evans
Enlisted in struggle
Being Marxist in a time of protracted crisis
Ahmed Kanna
reproduce itself. To concretize this and to contrast it to a Marxist conception of historical memory, he deployed an idea drawn from Ghana: I believe in the concept of the Sankofa bird, the bird that's always looking back on the past. As working people