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Greg Thomas
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Rhetoric) 1999, University of California at Berkeley
Office: 408 Hall of Lanuages, 315-443-9472
Email: gthomas@syr.edu
Interests: Pan-African Studies; Black Radical Tradition; Uses of the Erotic; Race, Sex & Empire; Black Popular Culture; Colonialism.
Books
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
Editorial Work
Encyclopedia Entries & Art Catalogue Essays
Works in Progress
Selected Presentations
Awards & Honors
Courses Taught
Books
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and the Erotic Schemes of Empire ( Indiana University Press, 2007).
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Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“Psycho-Sexual Racism & Pan-African Revolt: FANON & Chester Himes.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge V (Forthcoming in September 2007).
“The FBI, Pseudo-Declassification and George Lester Jackson.” The Abolitionist 6 [Bilingual in English and Spanish Translation] (May 2007).
“ Queens of Consciousness & Sex-Radicalism in Hip-Hop: On Erykah Badu and The Notorious K.I.M.” Journal of Pan-African Studies 1:7 (March 2007) – Special Issue: “Engendering the Diaspora: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity in the Contemporary African World” (Guest Edited by Yaba Amgborale Blay and Kaila Adia Story): 23-37.
“Man & Woman, Sex & Empire: ‘Reconstructing [Gender] in ‘ Plantation America '.” jENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women's Studies No. 5 (2005). 1-27.
“The ‘S' Word: Sex, Empire & Black Radical Tradition (After Sylvia). After Man, Toward the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter . Ed. Anthony Bogues and Brian Meeks.” Kingston , JA: Ian Randle Press (2005): 76-99.
“Notes On ‘Sexuality' After COINTELPRO?: In Struggle Against the Neo-Colonial Western Millennium,” Decolonizing the Academy: African-New World Studies . Edited by Carole Boyce Davies ( Trenton , NJ : Africa World Press, 2003): 93-103.
“Re-Reading Frantz Fanon and E. Franklin Frazier: On the Erotic Politics of Racist Assimilation by Class.” Présence Africaine 159 (1st Semester, 1999): 71-87.
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Editorial Work
Guest Editor, CR: The New Centennial Review 3:3 – Special Issue: “Coloniality's Persistence” (Fall 2003): 343pp; Introduction: “Coloniality's Persistence”: 1-4.
Founder & Editor, PROUD FLESH: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness – An e-journal published on-line by Africa Resource Center, Inc., at http://proudfleshjournal.com (From 2002 to present).
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Encyclopedia Entries & Art Catalogue Essays
“Hip-Hop Culture in the African Diaspora,” “Lil' Kim,” “Elaine Brown,” “George Jackson” & “COINTELPRO” in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: A Historical Encyclopedia . Edited by Carole E. Boyce Davies. Santa Barbara , CA : ABC-CLIO (Forthcoming in November 2007).
“Hayti, the Art of Resistance and the Idea of Modernity: Toward an African Diasporic Literacy of Black Revolutions – Here & There.” Roots: The Idea of Modernity in Contemporary Haitian Art . Edited by Babacar M'Bow ( Broward County African-American Research Library and Cultural Center: Forthcoming in July/August 2007).
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Works in Progress
Sexual Poetic Justice: Power, Knowledge & Hip-Hop's QUEEN B@#$H Lyricism! – Currently Under Consideration.
“The Erotics of ‘Under/Development' in Walter Rodney: On Sexual or Body Politics and Political Economy – for ‘Guerilla Intellectualism.'” – Under Consideration at The C.L.R. James Journal .
Literary Hustler of Hood: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines – Co-Editor L.H. Stallings.
“Re-Reading Frantz Fanon and E. Franklin Frazier: On the Erotic Politics of Racist Assimilation by Class.” Présence Africaine 159 (1st Semester, 1999): 71-87.
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Selected Presentations
“The ‘Sound Clash' of Her Naked Truth : The Notorious K.I.M. on COINTELPRO's Counter-Revolution – in Africa 's Dancehall Diaspora.” 32 nd Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association , Salvador da Bahia , Brazil : May 28 – June 1, 2007.
“On Psycho-Sexual Racism & Pan-African Revolt: FANON & Chester Himes.” The Violences of Colonialism and Racism, Inner and Global: Conversations with Frantz Fanon on the Meaning of Human Emancipation , University of Massachusetts ( Boston ): March 27-28, 2007.
Keynote Address – “On Erotic Maroonage: Sex, Empire & Black Radical Tradition(s).” Black Cultural Interventions into Gender and Sexuality Studies , University of Florida ( Gainesville ): March 23-24, 2007.
“Hearing Malcolm X in Amharic – or Harvest 3000 Years : Haile Gerima's ‘Message to the Grassroots.'” Sankofa Video, Film and Book Store – Washington DC : December 15, 2006 / African Literature Association: Pan-Africanism in the 21 st Century (32 Annual Meeting & Conference) , Accra , Ghana : May 17-21, 2006.
“Fire and Damnation: Hip-Hop (‘Youth Culture') and 1956 in Focus.” 50 th Anniversary of the 1 st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists: Tributes, Assessments, Perspectives (1956-2006). UNESCO Headquarters - Paris , France . September 19-22, 2006.
“Sylvia Wynter and Sexual Revolution: From ‘Reluctant Matriarchy' to ‘QUEEN B@#$H' Lyricism.” The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining, Creating, Theorizing (10 th Anniversary Conference) , Miami , FL. May 30 - June 3, 2006.
Guest Lecture – “Imaging … Hip-Hop … Uprising.” Howard University , School of Communications , Department of Radio, Television and Film: April 23, 2006.
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Awards & Honors
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Syracuse University English Department, 2005-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute on African Cinema in Dakar , Senegal , 2005
African American Studies Outstanding Community Service Award Syracuse University , 2002-2003
Carolina Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2001.
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Courses Taught
Graduate:
Psycho-Sexual Racism & Pan-African Revolt: Fanon & Himes (Spring 2007)
Hip-Hop's QUEEN B@#$H Writings (Fall 2006)
Black Prison Writing , USA (Spring 2005)
Black Radical Tradition (Spring 2002)
Undergraduate:
Black Revolutionary Texts (Spring 2007)
Malcolm X (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)
Race Traitors (Fall 2006)
Hip-Hop Eshu: QUEEN B@#$H 101 (Fall 2004, Fall 2006)
Slave & Neo-Slave/Letters of Liberation (Fall 2002-Spring 2003) Race, Writing & Empire (Fall 2002).
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