All Outputs (12)

The sexuality of Malcolm X (2016)
Journal Article

This article engages the controversy over whether Malcolm Little, who would become Malcolm X, had same-sexual encounters. A minute sifting of all evidence and claims, augmented by new findings, yields strong indication that Malcolm Little did take pa... Read More about The sexuality of Malcolm X.

The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian Border War (2016)
Book Chapter

John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961 (2016)
Journal Article

In the last two decades, scholars have increasingly looked to understand the way that socially constructed norms and values have influenced the course of international diplomacy. Yet while much work has been produced on areas such as gender, far less... Read More about John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961.

“To Preserve My Features in Marble”: Post-Civil War Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Sketches of Frederick Douglass. An Illustrated Essay (2016)
Journal Article

Revising the Archive: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya (2016)
Book Chapter

Recovering mestiza genealogies in contemporary New Mexican art: Delilah Montoya’s El sagrado corazón (1993) (2016)
Journal Article

“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his lay... Read More about “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey.

National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris (2016)
Journal Article

In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concern... Read More about National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris.

From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing (2016)
Book Chapter

A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange (2016)
Journal Article

This article breaks new ground by reframing the context in which the governments of India and the Soviet Union arrived at an understanding that determined the course of cinematic exchange between the two countries during the cold war. It suggests tha... Read More about A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange.

The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture (2016)
Book Chapter

By the time of his death in 1895, Frederick Douglass had sat for approximately 160 different photographs. This makes him the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, rather than Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman or General Custer (all previo... Read More about The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture.

Unquiet Americans: The Church Committee, the CIA and the Intelligence Dimension of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 1970s (2016)
Book Chapter