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MichaelRalph

Michael Ralph

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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