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“Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince” is a multivocal text that accompanies and extends a collaborative project the authors developed in December 2015 at the 4th Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. An assemblage of description, reflection, performance writing, and theory, this co-authored piece writes alongside the authors’ dancing in ways that mobilize a Kreyol Vodou rasanbleman, a collective ritual gathering that incites and provokes.

This chapter explores meaning-making and reception in a range of Shakespeare adaptations within the black Atlantic context. Inspired by the authors’ own collaboration incorporating African Caribbean folkloric dance into Shakespeare’s Pericles: Prince of Tyre, the chapter examines historical and contemporary adaptations, revealing multiple ways in which African and African diaspora themes and cultural forms signify within Shakespeare’s colonial context. Orson Welles’s 1936 Negro Theatre Project’s production known as “Voodoo” Macbeth, Aimé Césaire’s 1969 adaptation, Une Tempête, and a more contemporary adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Classical Theatre of Harlem in 2013, directed by Justin Emeka, offer a range of diverse historical and cultural contexts in which African and African diaspora knowledges signify, including the United States’ neo-colonial occupation of Haiti, the postcolonial negritude and pan-Africanism movements, and contemporary Harlem. The results reveal modernist, postcolonial, and contemporary discourses through various significations of African and African diaspora embodied knowledges.

This lesson can be used in World Geography and United States History classes, grades 6 through 12. Students will explore how the values and institutions of European economic and political life took...

In this article we provide a brief overview of the March 2014 workshop that we organized with approximately thirty pre- and in-service teachers from around the state of Virginia. Our broad focus in...

This lesson can be used in a United States History or Geography elementary class in grades 4 and 5. Students will investigate pictures of present and past public pools and create maps of pools in t...

The first workshop in this series of institutes exploring the legacies of slavery in Virginia sponsored by the Virginia Geographic Alliance took place in Richmond, Virginia, and explored Africanist...

This lesson can be used in a World Geography, Music, or United States History class in grades 6 through 12. Students will research songs sung during American slavery and decode the hidden geographi...