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Assistant Professor
of
Social and Cultural Analysis
,
Africana Studies
Ph.D. 2006 (anthropology), University of Chicago; M.A. 2002 (anthropology), University of Chicago; B.A. 2000 Morris Brown College.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Neoliberalism, globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, sports, labor, politics, hip hop, urban youth culture, generation. Senegal. United States.
Select Publications:
"Our most precious capital resource": Youth in Senegal.(forthcoming)
"'Crimes of History': Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery." Souls10(3): 193-222.
"Prototype: In Search of the Perfect Senegalese Basketball Physique." The
International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 311-316.
"Epilogue: It was all a dream." The International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 238-263.
"Flirt[ing] with death but 'still alive': The sexual dimensions of
surplus time in hip hop fantasy." Cultural Dynamics 18(1): 61-88.
"'Le Sénégal qui Gagne': Soccer and the Stakes of Neoliberalism in a
Postcolonial Port." Soccer and Society 7(2-3): 300-317.
"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. University of Rochester Press, pp. 22-48.
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