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Shaka Are Dead

Shaka Are Dead

John Samson

Set in post-Apartheid South Africa, this is the moving story of a young uneducated lad who witnesses his school mate, Zakes, attempt suicide.
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Shaka Senghor

Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next.
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Shaka Senghor

Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next.
Crack Volume 1

Crack Volume 1

Shaka

Homicide detective Devon Jensen is investigating the link between the murder of his childhood friend and two rival drug families. He finds himself fighting to save his own life and the life of the woman he has grown to love.
Shaka Zulu to Hide Pharoah: That’S Decoded

Shaka Zulu to Hide Pharoah: That’S Decoded

Thamsanqa Kingsley Sibisi

This book is about deciphered palm of the Beast (the historical accounts and the astrological analysis of the Ngoma (Ark) King called Ntaba Kayikhonjwa), who happens to be the only Pharaoh of the city of the Sun in Egypt.
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an ...

Shaka Senghor

"During his nineteen-year incarceration [for murder], seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others--tools he used to confront the demons of his ...
Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and ...

Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and ...

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Shaka McGlotten and Sarah VanGundy also read the zombie in queer terms, and it may be that “the only survivors [in zombie texts] are brave, pioneering heterosexuals who must fight off the threatening (homosexual?) menace” (2013, 113); ...
Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International ...

Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International ...

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Special thanks is due to my writing group comrades—Jason Pine, Shaka McGlotten and Agustin Zarzosa at Purchase College, State University of New York—for insightful conversations and feedback on an earlier version of this essay. Finally ...
Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Shaka McGlotten

This book uses prominent policy issues and major studies of welfare and job programs to bring to life crucial questions about how social science can best serve social policy.
The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815–1828

The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815–1828

Elizabeth A. Eldredge

In contrast to recent literary analyses of myths of Shaka, this book uses the richness of Zulu oral traditions and a comprehensive body of written sources to provide a compelling narrative and analysis of the events and people of the era of ...
Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age

Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age

F. Hollis Griffin

In discussing the development of online spaces that facilitate intimacy, Shaka McGlotten writes: “These new freedoms and possibilities picked up anxieties like Velcro. Virtual intimacies signaled new possibilities even as they foregrounded the ...
Young Men's Perspective Magazine vol 6

Young Men's Perspective Magazine vol 6

Jeff Hodges

Jeff Hodges: Transformed from James White convicted murderer to Shaka Senghor the influencer, a result of your ability to network can take quick turns into innite possibility. Goes to show that whatever you put your mind to you can do it.
The Genesis of the Bible

The Genesis of the Bible

Shaka Saye Bambata Dolo

According to Gary Greenberg, in his book, Bible Myth: The Afrikan Origin of the Jewish People, as quoted by Nana Banchie Darkwah, in his book, The Afrikans Who Wrote The Bible: There is no Historical, Archeological, and Anthropological  ...
Black Genders and Sexualities

Black Genders and Sexualities

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BLACK GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES Copyright © Shaka McGlotten and DánaAin Davis, 2012. All rights reserved. First published in2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin's PressLLC, 175 Fifth ...
Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Shaka McGlotten

I draw here both on my own reading of the Times articles, as well as on materials by Susie Bright and debbie nathan. ... As my subsequent discussion will demonstrate, I also rely heavily on debbie nathan's reporting, “the new York times , Kurt ...
Special Issue on LGBT and Queer Studies: Rupkatha Journal on ...

Special Issue on LGBT and Queer Studies: Rupkatha Journal on ...

J. Edgar Bauer

Three Book Reviews Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect and Queer Sociality Shaka McGlotten: SUNY Press, 2013. Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture Gilad Padva: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire  ...
Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead

Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Zombies and sexuality : essays on desire and the living dead / edited by Shaka McGlotten and Steve Jones. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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