Carole Boyce Davies | Academic Influence

Carole Boyce Davies's Degrees

PhD African and African Diaspora Studies Florida State University
Masters African and African Diaspora Studies Florida State University
Bachelors English University of the West Indies

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Why Is Carole Boyce Davies Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Carole Boyce Davies is a Caribbean-American professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University, the author of the prize-winning Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Claudia Jones and the classic Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject , as well as editor of several critical anthologies in African and Caribbean literature. She is currently the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, an endowed chair named after the 9th president of Cornell University. Among several other awards, she was the recipient of two major awards, both in 2017: the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association.

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Carole Boyce Davies's Published Works

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Published Works

Black Women, Writing and Identity : Migrations of the Subject (1994) (348)
Out of the Kumbla : Caribbean women and literature (1990) (152)
Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (1986) (133)
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008) (103)
Encyclopedia of the African diaspora : origins, experiences, and culture (2008) (54)
The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (2000) (42)
Beyond Unicentricity: Transcultural Black Presences (1999) (38)
Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives (2005) (37)
Imperial Geographies and Caribbean Nationalism: At the Border between "A Dying Colonialism" and U.S. Hegemony (2004) (37)
Deportable Subjects: U.S. Immigration Laws and the Criminalizing of Communism (2001) (26)
The African diaspora : African origins and New World identities (2002) (20)
Private selves and public spaces: Autobiography and the African woman writer (1990) (17)
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones (2013) (17)
Decolonizing the academy : African diaspora studies (2003) (17)
Black women, writing, and identity (1994) (16)
The trap of postcoloniality (1998) (15)
From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project (2014) (13)
Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Intellectual Tradition (2009) (13)
Writing off marginality, minoring, and effacement (1991) (12)
CON-DI-FI-CATION: Transnationalism, Diaspora and the Limits of Domestic Racial or Feminist Discourses (2006) (11)
African Women Writers: Towards a Literary History (1993) (9)
The Inevitability of the Personal (1996) (8)
Naming Caribbean Women Writers@@@Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature.@@@Mémoire d'une amnésique.@@@Her True-True Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing From the Caribbean.@@@Memoire d'une amnesique. (1990) (6)
The Africa theme in Trinidad Calypso (1985) (5)
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War (2012) (5)
Re-/Presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: 'Filhas d' Oxum in Bahia Carnival (2001) (5)
Migrations, Diasporas, Nations: The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities (2010) (4)
Finding Some Space: Black South African Women Writers (1986) (4)
Two: Jamaica Kincaid, Caribbean Space and Living Dislocations (2018) (4)
Finding Some Space: South African Women Writers (1986) (4)
“SHE WANTS THE BLACK MAN POST”: Constructions of race, sexuality and political leadership in popular culture (2011) (4)
Against Race or the Politics of Self-Ethnography (2002) (3)
International dimensions of black women's writing (1995) (3)
"Beyond Miranda's Meanings": Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Women's Literatures (1995) (2)
Claudia Jones : beyond containment : autobiographical reflections, essays, and poems (2011) (2)
Black Bodies, Carnivalized Bodies (1994) (2)
Caribbean Left: Diasporic Circulation (2015) (2)
Enduring Legacies of Mrs. Garvey No. 1 (2007) (2)
Migration, African Writing and the Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment (2016) (2)
‘ Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!Migration, Landscape and Nation In Edwidge Danticat’s Diaspora (2010) (2)
In Their Own Words: Life and Work in South Africa (1989) (1)
Globalectics: Beyond Postcoloniality, & Engaging the Caribbean (2018) (1)
Gender/Class Intersections and African Women’s Rights (2015) (1)
Black women's writing : crossing the boundaries (1989) (1)
Carnival and Diaspora: Caribbean Community, Happiness, and Activism (2008) (1)
Remembering Beryl Gilroy (2002) (1)
Deportation: The Other Politics of Diaspora, or “What is an ocean between us? We know how to build bridges.” (2008) (0)
Internationalizing Caribbean Culture (2013) (0)
First Ladies/First Wives, First Women Presidents: Sexuality, Leadership and Power in the African Diaspora (2018) (0)
Jones, Claudia Vera Cumberbatch (1915–1964) (2019) (0)
Moving Beyond Boundaries. 1: International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing@@@Moving Beyond Boundaries. 2: Black Women's Diasporas (1996) (0)
Jenny Sharpe. Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2003. Pp. xxvi, 187. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95 (2005) (0)
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination by Rosamond S. King (2019) (0)
The New African Diaspora (review) (2011) (0)
Introduction. Recovering the Radical Black Female Subject: Anti-Imperialism, Feminism, and Activism (2008) (0)
From “Half the World” to the Whole World: Journalism as Black Transnational Political Practice (2008) (0)
Piece Work/Peace Work: Self-Construction versus State Repression (2008) (0)
The New African Diaspora (2011) (0)
Decolonizing Literary Studies: Beyond English and Romance Studies Departments (2018) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2015) (0)
Wrapping Oneself in Mother's Akatado Cloths. Mother-Daughter Relationships in African Women Writers' Works (1987) (0)
Women’s Rights/Workers’ Rights/Anti-Imperialism: Challenging the Superexploitation of Black Working-Class Women (2008) (0)
Finding Some Space: Black African Women Writers (1986) (0)
Reviews of Books:Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives Jenny Sharpe (2005) (0)
Black Women's Journey Into Self: A Womanist Reading of Paule Marshall's 'Praise Song for the Women in Development' (1987) (0)
Beyond Unicentricity: Transcultural Black Pre s e n c e s (1999) (0)
Claudia Jones's Prison Blues (2007) (0)
Hubert Harrison. The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883–1918 – By Perry, Jeffrey B. (2009) (0)
Prison Blues: Literary Activism and a Poetry of Resistance (2008) (0)

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