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Publications by Tavia Nyong'o

Journal Articles

2005                    “Punk’d Theory” Social Text 84/85.

2005                    “Passing as Politics: Framing Black Political Performance” Women and Performance 29.

2005                    “The Black First: Crispus Attucks and William Cooper Nell” Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar forNew England Folklife, 2003.

2005                    “Black Theater’s Closet Drama,” Theatre Journal 57(4).

2005                    “Queer TV: A Comment” GLQ 11.1: 103-105.

2002                    “Racial Kitsch and Black Performance” Yale Journal of Criticism 12(2): 371-191.

1999                    African-American History and Politics, in Timothy Murphy, ed., Readers Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 13-15

Reviews


2007                      Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization by Marwan Kraidy. Reviewed for American Quarterly.

2007                      Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” by Kathryn Bond Stockton. Reviewed for GLQ.

2007                      Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture by Janell Hobson. Reviewed for International Journal of Communication.

2006                      Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of 
                              Race, by Maureen Mahon; Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock ‘n’ 
                              Roll, edited by Kandia Crazy Horse; and Afropunk: The ‘Rock n Roll
                              Nigger’Experience, directed by James Spooner. Reviewed for
                              TDR: The Drama Review 50(1).