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Fashioning African Diaspora Masculinities
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Althea McNish: Fabricating Modernism

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Africa Fashion Hardcover
2022

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Cut & Mix: Collage, Creolisation and African Diaspora Aesthetics

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Re-Fashioning African Diasporic Masculinities

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Spinning a Yarn of One’s Own
2022 – A Companion to Textile Cultures – Jennifer Harris (ed.) WileyBlackwell Publications

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Aesthetics of Blackness? Cloth, Culture and the African Diasporas
2018 – Guest editor of a special issue of Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture

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At Home with Vanley Burke
2017 – Image & Text, Leora Farber (ed.)

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Stylin’ the Great Masculine Enunciation and the (Re)-fashioning of African Diasporic Identities
2017 – Critical Arts, Volume 31, Number 3 – Leora Farber (ed.)

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Althea McNish and the British African Diaspora

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Lubaina Himid: Artist, Activist, Collaborator
2017 – Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminisms – Sarah-Joy Ford (ed.)

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Migrations, Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire

Sound and Vision: Christine Checinska wonders how Nick Cave’s Soundsuits take shape

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Social Fabric
2015 – Co-authored with Grant Watson in The Handbook of Textile Culture – Janis Jefferies, Hazel Clark and Diana Wood Conroy (eds.)

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Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diasporas
2015 – Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today – Jessica Hemmings (ed.), 2015

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Sonia Boyce “Scat: Sound and Collaboration”, Iniva London

Second Skins: Cloth, Difference and the Art of Transformation
2014 – Image and Text, Leora Farber and Anne-Marie Tully (eds.)

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Crafting Difference

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Every Mickle Mek a Mockle: Reconfiguring Diasporic Identities
2012 – Beyond Borders, John Hutnyk (ed.)

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Re-fashioning Identities

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Consuming Colonisation: excavatin’ escoveitched fish
2006 – Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 28, Issue 2 – Anne Collett (ed.), University of Wollongong
Based on interviews with my family, this article investigates the relationship between food, culture, memory and the negotiation of physical and metaphorical borders central to the African diaspora experience. Just as its spoken and written word is creole in character, Jamaican cuisine is an amalgam of African, Arawak Indian, Spanish and English colonial inspirations.

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