The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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MichaelRalph

Michael Ralph

Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Metropolitan Studies.
Ph.D. 2007 (Anthropology), University of Chicago; M.A. 2002 (Anthropology), University of Chicago; B.A. 2000 (Africana Studies) Morris Brown College.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Neoliberalism, globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, youth, crime, citizenship, sovereignty, security, labor, politics, sports.

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Manuscripts

“National Security”: Youth, Crime, Citizenship, and Sovereignty, in Senegal
(forthcoming)

 

Benjamin Eastman, Michael Ralph, and Sean Brown, eds.  2008.  America’s Game(s): A

Critical Anthropology of Sport.  London: Routledge.

 

Articles

 

Michael Ralph.  2009.  ‘Commodity.’  Social Text 100 27(3): 78-84.

Michael Ralph.  2009.  ‘Diaspora.’  Social Text 100 27(3): 94-101.


Michael Ralph.  2009.  ‘Hip hop.’  Social Text 100 27(3): 141-146.


Michael Ralph.  2009.  “Barack Obama is (not) who you think he is.”  The Sixties: A

Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.’  2(2): 76-77. 

 

Michael Ralph.  2009.  “Thief’s Theme.”  South Atlantic Quarterly 108(8): 541-562.

 

Michael Ralph.  2009.  “‘It’s hard out here for a pimp…with…a whole lot of bitches jumpin’ ship’: Navigating black politics in the wake of Katrina.”  Public Culture 21(2): 341-374.

 

Michael Ralph.  2008.  “Killing time.”  Social Text 26(4): 1-29.

 

Michael Ralph.  2007.  ‘“Crimes of History”: Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of

Slavery.’  Souls 9(3): 193-222. 

 

Michael Ralph.  2007.  ‘Prototype: In Search of the Perfect Senegalese Basketball

Physique.’  The International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 311-316.

 

Michael Ralph.  2007.  ‘Epilogue: It was all a dream.’ The International Journal of the

History of Sport 24(2): 238-263.

 

Michael Ralph.  2006.  ‘“Flirt[ing] with death but “still alive”: The sexual dimensions of

surplus time in hip hop fantasy.’  Cultural Dynamics 18(1): 61-88.

 

Michael Ralph.  2006.  ‘“Le Sénégal qui Gagne”: Soccer and the Stakes of Neoliberalism

in a Postcolonial Port.’  Soccer and Society 7(2-3): 300-317.

 

Michael Ralph.  2005.  ‘Oppressive Impressions, Architectural Expressions: The poetics

of French colonial (ad)vantage, regarding Africa.’  In African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective.  Steve Salm and Toyin Falola, eds.  Univ. of Rochester Press, pp. 22-48.

 

Michael Ralph.  2005.  Review of Wilson J. Moses’ Afrotopia, Transforming

Anthropology 13(2): 166-68.

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