Publications
Book
2025
(Forthcoming)
Diaspora Without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal. Under contract with Duke University Press. Forthcoming July 2025.
Articles & Chapters
2024
2023
“The Afro-Paradox: Diasporic Chauvinism and Cultural Expertise in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira”. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 24(1): 1-28.
“Playing with Origins: Racial Self-Making and Embodying History in Togolese Capoeira.” Transforming Anthropology 31(2): 100-112.
2025 (Forthcoming)
“The Obscuring Effect: Whiteness in the Celebration of Black Performance in Senegal.” In The Anthropology of White Supremacy. Eds. Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana. Edited volume forthcoming with Princeton University Press. Pp. 83-92.
Working Papers
2024
“Perfectly Unstable: The Balancing Act of Black Performance Origins.”
Other Publications
2020
“Open Air in Ordinary Spaces.” In “Post-Covid Fantasies,” Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir, editors, American Ethnologist website.
2019
“Unremarkable Stakes.” Cultural Anthropology Online (Fieldsights). Theorizing the Contemporary Series on “Otherwise Anthropology,” Eds. Laura McTighe and Megan Raschig.
Book & Film Reviews
2023
Book Review: Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism by Richard M. Shain. Africa: Journal of the African International Institute 93(2): 323-325.
2022
Book Review: Experiments with Empire: Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic by Justin Izzo. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28(3): 1078-1079.
2014
Film review: “Teza” (dir. Haile Gerima). African Studies Review 57(3): 252-254.