Negromancy / Scholarly source census
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259 recorded source/work leads across 11 domains, recovered from the extensive October 2026 audit. **Not** 259 verified books, and not a complete collection of every author's oeuvre.
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C3 = higher *past project* coverage; C2 = working coverage; C1-or-ungraded = lead or not assigned here. None implies full-oeuvre reading. The 2026 private audit is the historical source of this metadata; its annotations and primary personal records are not republished.
Performance Archive Testimony 33 leads
- Dennis Scott — An Echo in the Bone C3
- Diana Taylor — The Archive and the Repertoire; Performance C3 Checked record ↗
- Joseph Roach — Cities of the Dead C2
- Dwight Conquergood — performance ethnography / co-performance essays C1-or-ungraded
- D. Soyini Madison — Critical Ethnography; Acts of Activism C1-or-ungraded
- E. Patrick Johnson — Sweet Tea; performance ethnography C1-or-ungraded
- Robin Nelson — Practice as Research in the Arts C1-or-ungraded
- Della Pollock — Telling Bodies / performance and oral history C1-or-ungraded
- Victor Turner — ritual / liminality C1-or-ungraded
- Richard Schechner — restored behavior / performance theory C1-or-ungraded
- Arnold van Gennep — rites of passage C1-or-ungraded
- bell hooks — Teaching to Transgress / care and pedagogy C1-or-ungraded
- Rebecca Schneider — Performing Remains C1-or-ungraded
- Marvin Carlson — The Haunted Stage C1-or-ungraded
- Thomas F. DeFrantz — Black performance / dance scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Harvey Young — Embodying Black Experience C1-or-ungraded
- Erika Fischer-Lichte — The Transformative Power of Performance C1-or-ungraded
- Augusto Boal — Theatre of the Oppressed C1-or-ungraded
- Erving Goffman — The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; Frame Analysis C1-or-ungraded
- Errol Hill — Caribbean/Jamaican theatre history; Plays for Today C1-or-ungraded
- Honor Ford-Smith — Sistren / theatre, gender, popular education C1-or-ungraded
- Mark Fleishman — performance research / theatre-making as inquiry C1-or-ungraded
- Jonas Tinius — rehearsal as method / theatre anthropology C1-or-ungraded
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty — Phenomenology of Perception C1-or-ungraded
- Konstantin Stanislavski — actor training / given circumstances / action C1-or-ungraded
- Kelly Oliver — Witnessing: Beyond Recognition C1-or-ungraded
- Shoshana Felman + Dori Laub — Testimony: Crises of Witnessing C1-or-ungraded
- Miranda Fricker — Epistemic Injustice C1-or-ungraded
- Kristie Dotson — Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing C1-or-ungraded
- Jose Medina — The Epistemology of Resistance C1-or-ungraded
- Donna Haraway — Situated Knowledges C1-or-ungraded
- Michael Burawoy — extended case method C1-or-ungraded
- I. Tavory + S. Timmermans — abductive analysis / theory construction C1-or-ungraded
Black Studies Human Genre Afterlife 29 leads
- Frantz Fanon — Black Skin, White Masks; The Wretched of the Earth C2
- Sylvia Wynter — Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom; No Humans Involved; Black Metamorphosis C3 Checked record ↗
- Hortense Spillers — Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe C2
- Alexander G. Weheliye — Habeas Viscus C2
- Katherine McKittrick — Demonic Grounds; Dear Science; On Being Human as Praxis C2 Checked record ↗
- Anthony Bogues — After Man, Towards the Human cluster C1-or-ungraded
- Denise Ferreira da Silva — Toward a Global Idea of Race C2
- Zakiyyah Iman Jackson — Becoming Human C2
- Saidiya Hartman — Scenes of Subjection; Venus in Two Acts; Lose Your Mother; Wayward Lives C3
- Christina Sharpe — In the Wake; Ordinary Notes; Monstrous Intimacies C2
- Avery Gordon — Ghostly Matters C1-or-ungraded
- Tina Campt — Listening to Images; A Black Gaze C1-or-ungraded
- Nicole Fleetwood — Marking Time C1-or-ungraded
- Achille Mbembe — Necropolitics; On the Postcolony C1-or-ungraded
- Rinaldo Walcott — Black Like Who?; On Property C1-or-ungraded
- Rinaldo Walcott + Idil Abdillahi — BlackLife C1-or-ungraded
- Carole Boyce Davies — Black Women, Writing and Identity C1-or-ungraded
- Michelle M. Wright — Physics of Blackness C1-or-ungraded
- Joy James — In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; Captive Maternal C1-or-ungraded
- Stephanie E. Smallwood — Saltwater Slavery C1-or-ungraded
- Marcus Rediker — The Slave Ship C1-or-ungraded
- Marisa J. Fuentes — Dispossessed Lives C1-or-ungraded
- C. Riley Snorton — Nobody Is Supposed to Know C1-or-ungraded
- Demetrius L. Eudell — sociogenic principle / Being Black essay in On Being Human as Praxis C1-or-ungraded
- Peter Hudis — political economy of Fanon’s sociogeny C1-or-ungraded
- Moji Anderson et al. — Liminal Identities: Caribbean Men Who Have Sex with Men in London C1-or-ungraded
- Orlando O. Harris + Sharlene Jarrett — Jamaican MSM community / identity research C1-or-ungraded
- Carmen H. Logie et al. — stigma, survival and sexually diverse/trans life in Kingston C1-or-ungraded
- Carlotta M. Arthur + Rob Whitley — Head Take You: causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica C1-or-ungraded
Relation Caribbean Poetics Language 38 leads
- Édouard Glissant — Poetics of Relation; Caribbean Discourse; Poetic Intention; Treatise on the Whole-World C3
- Kamau Brathwaite — The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770–1820; History of the Voice; The Arrivants C3
- Stuart Hall — Encoding/Decoding; Cultural Identity and Diaspora C1-or-ungraded
- Patrick Chamoiseau — Texaco; creolity writings C1-or-ungraded
- Wilson Harris — Palace of the Peacock; cross-cultural imagination essays C1-or-ungraded
- Antonio Benítez-Rojo — The Repeating Island C1-or-ungraded
- Fred Moten + Stefano Harney — The Undercommons C1-or-ungraded
- Louise Bennett-Coverley — Jamaica Labrish and performance corpus C1-or-ungraded
- Carolyn Cooper — Noises in the Blood; Sound Clash C3
- Sonjah Stanley Niaah — DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto C2
- Rex Nettleford — Mirror, Mirror; Caribbean Cultural Identity; Dance Jamaica C2
- Donna Hope — Inna di Dancehall C1-or-ungraded
- Norman C. Stolzoff — Wake the Town and Tell the People C1-or-ungraded
- Patricia Saunders — Jamaican/dancehall cultural production C1-or-ungraded
- Jafari S. Allen — There’s a Disco Ball Between Us C1-or-ungraded
- Hanétha Vété-Congolo — Caribbean/creolization critique and relation C1-or-ungraded
- Jennifer Lynn Stoever — The Sonic Color Line C1-or-ungraded
- Nina Sun Eidsheim — The Race of Sound C1-or-ungraded
- Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier — Aurality C1-or-ungraded
- Martin Munro — Listening to the Caribbean C1-or-ungraded
- Julian Henriques — Sonic Bodies; Jamaican sound-system culture C1-or-ungraded
- R. Murray Schafer — The Soundscape C1-or-ungraded
- Jacques Attali — Noise C1-or-ungraded
- Dylan Robinson — Hungry Listening C1-or-ungraded
- Adriana Cavarero — For More Than One Voice C1-or-ungraded
- Walter J. Ong — Orality and Literacy C1-or-ungraded
- Ruth Finnegan — Oral Literature in Africa C1-or-ungraded
- Jan Vansina — Oral Tradition as History C1-or-ungraded
- Jacques Derrida — Of Grammatology C1-or-ungraded
- Lev Vygotsky — inner speech / thought and language C1-or-ungraded
- Brian Street — ideological model of literacy / New Literacy Studies C1-or-ungraded
- Sylvia Scribner + Michael Cole — The Psychology of Literacy / Vai literacy C1-or-ungraded
- Peter L. Patrick — Urban Jamaican Creole C1-or-ungraded
- Asif Agha — Language and Social Relations C1-or-ungraded
- Carolyn R. Miller — Genre as Social Action C1-or-ungraded
- Nelson Flores + Jonathan Rosa — Undoing Appropriateness / raciolinguistic ideologies C1-or-ungraded
- Jonathan Rosa — Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race C1-or-ungraded
- Jamaican Language Unit — Language Attitude Survey of Jamaica; Language Competence Survey C1-or-ungraded
Obeah Sacred Practice Ritual 35 leads
- M. Jacqui Alexander — Pedagogies of Crossing C3
- Diana Paton — The Cultural Politics of Obeah; No Bond but the Law C3 Checked record ↗
- Katharine Gerbner — Archival Irruptions; Christian Slavery C2 Checked record ↗
- J. Brent Crosson — Experiments with Power C3
- Maarit Forde + Diana Paton — Obeah and Other Powers C1-or-ungraded Checked record ↗
- Kenneth Bilby + Jerome Handler — Obeah, healing and protection scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Dianne M. Stewart — Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad C1-or-ungraded
- Stephen C. Finley + Margarita Simon Guillory + Hugh R. Page Jr. — Esotericism in African American Religious Experience C2
- Howard Thurman — The Luminous Darkness C1-or-ungraded
- Yvonne Chireau — Black Magic C1-or-ungraded
- Katrina Hazzard-Donald — Mojo Workin’ C1-or-ungraded
- Karen McCarthy Brown — Mama Lola C1-or-ungraded
- Stephan Palmié — Wizards and Scientists; Africas of the Americas C1-or-ungraded
- Aisha Khan — Caribbean religion and identity scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Barry Chevannes — Rastafari: Roots and Ideology C2
- Nathaniel Samuel Murrell — Chanting Down Babylon / Rastafari studies C1-or-ungraded
- Velma Pollard — Dread Talk C1-or-ungraded
- Robert Farris Thompson — Flash of the Spirit C1-or-ungraded
- Wande Abimbola — Ifa scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. — The Signifying Monkey C1-or-ungraded
- Birgit Meyer — sensational forms / mediation C2
- Webb Keane — materiality of religion / semiotic ideology C2
- William Sax + Johannes Quack + Jan Weinhold — The Problem of Ritual Efficacy C2
- Timothy Insoll — Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion C2
- Lars Fogelin — The Archaeology of Religious Ritual C2
- Edward Swenson — The Archaeology of Ritual C2
- Evangelos Kyriakidis — The Archaeology of Ritual C2
- Roger Forshaw — The Role of the Lector in Ancient Egyptian Society C2
- Wyatt MacGaffey — Astonishment and Power / Kongo material religion C1-or-ungraded
- Matthew Mitchell — Africana/Caribbean religion research lead; exact work unresolved C1-or-ungraded
- David Chidester — colonial classification / comparative religion scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Tracey E. Hucks — Yoruba traditions / African American religious nationalism C1-or-ungraded
- Ennis B. Edmonds — Rastafari scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Kelly Wisecup + Toni Wall Jaudon — On Knowing and Not Knowing about Obeah C1-or-ungraded
- Jerome S. Handler + Kenneth M. Bilby — Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760–2011 C1-or-ungraded
Plantation Political Economy Jamaican History 23 leads
- Eric Williams — Capitalism and Slavery C2
- George L. Beckford — Persistent Poverty C2
- Sidney W. Mintz — Sweetness and Power; Caribbean Transformations C2
- Sidney Mintz + Richard Price — An Anthropological Approach to the Afro-American Past; The Birth of African-American Culture C2
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot — Silencing the Past C3
- Orlando Patterson — Slavery and Social Death C2
- Elsa Goveia — Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands C2
- Verene Shepherd — slavery, gender, migration, reparations scholarship C2
- Hilary Beckles — Caribbean slavery, gender, labor, reparations scholarship C2
- Vincent Brown — Tacky’s Revolt; The Reaper’s Garden C2
- Deborah A. Thomas — Modern Blackness; Exceptional Violence; Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation C3 Checked record ↗
- C. L. R. James — The Black Jacobins; Beyond a Boundary C1-or-ungraded
- Aimé Césaire — Discourse on Colonialism; Notebook of a Return to the Native Land C1-or-ungraded
- Cedric Robinson — Black Marxism C1-or-ungraded
- Lisa Lowe — The Intimacies of Four Continents C1-or-ungraded
- Mimi Sheller — Consuming the Caribbean; mobility and citizenship C1-or-ungraded
- Shalini Puri — Caribbean postcolonial and revolutionary memory scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Brian Meeks — Jamaican/Caribbean resistance and revolutionary theory C1-or-ungraded
- Jennifer L. Morgan — gender, reproduction and slavery scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- SlaveVoyages — database / Atlantic slave-trade evidence C1-or-ungraded
- Stephanie E. Smallwood — Saltwater Slavery C1-or-ungraded
- Marcus Rediker — The Slave Ship: A Human History C1-or-ungraded
- Marisa J. Fuentes — Dispossessed Lives C1-or-ungraded
Fetish Value Classification Political Thought 23 leads
- William Pietz — The Problem of the Fetish C2
- Charles de Brosses — Du culte des dieux fétiches C1-or-ungraded
- Karl Marx — Capital, vol. 1 C2
- J. Lorand Matory — fetishism / Afro-Atlantic material religion C1-or-ungraded
- Adam Smith — The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations C1-or-ungraded
- F. A. Hayek — The Use of Knowledge in Society C1-or-ungraded
- Milton Friedman — Capitalism and Freedom C1-or-ungraded
- A. J. Ayer — Language, Truth and Logic C1-or-ungraded
- Michel Foucault — Discipline and Punish; History of Sexuality; governmentality C1-or-ungraded
- Pierre Bourdieu — Outline of a Theory of Practice; Language and Symbolic Power; Distinction C1-or-ungraded
- James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State; Domination and the Arts of Resistance C1-or-ungraded
- Judith Butler — performativity / injurious speech C1-or-ungraded
- Antonio Gramsci — Prison Notebooks / hegemony C1-or-ungraded
- Omi + Winant — racial formation C1-or-ungraded
- Fredrik Barth — ethnic boundaries C1-or-ungraded
- Andreas Wimmer — ethnic boundary-making C1-or-ungraded
- Rogers Brubaker — categories / groupism C1-or-ungraded
- Mahmood Mamdani — political identities / colonial rule C1-or-ungraded
- Terence Ranger — invented tradition / colonial categories C1-or-ungraded
- Charles Tilly — durable inequality / categorical mechanisms C1-or-ungraded
- Georg Lukács — History and Class Consciousness / reification C1-or-ungraded
- Henri Lefebvre — The Production of Space C1-or-ungraded
- J. L. Austin — How to Do Things with Words C1-or-ungraded
Affect Care Repair Pedagogy 29 leads
- Sara Ahmed — The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Queer Phenomenology; Complaint! C2
- Teresa Brennan — The Transmission of Affect C1-or-ungraded
- Sianne Ngai — Ugly Feelings C1-or-ungraded
- Kathleen Stewart — Ordinary Affects C1-or-ungraded
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick — Touching Feeling C1-or-ungraded
- Lauren Berlant — Cruel Optimism C1-or-ungraded
- Brian Massumi — Parables for the Virtual C1-or-ungraded
- Ann Cvetkovich — An Archive of Feelings C1-or-ungraded
- John Bowlby — Attachment and Loss C1-or-ungraded
- Mary Ainsworth — Patterns of Attachment C1-or-ungraded
- Mary Main — Adult Attachment Interview work C1-or-ungraded
- Patricia Crittenden — Dynamic-Maturational Model C1-or-ungraded
- Peter Fonagy — mentalization / attachment C1-or-ungraded
- Tithi Bhattacharya — social reproduction theory C1-or-ungraded
- Joan C. Tronto — Moral Boundaries; Caring Democracy C2
- Iris Marion Young — Justice and the Politics of Difference; Responsibility for Justice C2
- Paulo Freire — Pedagogy of the Oppressed C1-or-ungraded
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — Decolonising the Mind C1-or-ungraded
- Audre Lorde — Sister Outsider; Uses of the Erotic C1-or-ungraded
- María Lugones — coloniality of gender / world-travelling C1-or-ungraded
- Gloria Anzaldúa — Borderlands / La Frontera C1-or-ungraded
- María Puig de la Bellacasa — Matters of Care C1-or-ungraded
- Steven J. Jackson — Rethinking Repair / broken-world thinking C1-or-ungraded
- Amartya Sen — capability approach C1-or-ungraded
- Martha C. Nussbaum — capabilities / human development C1-or-ungraded
- Ingrid Robeyns — capability approach scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- James J. Gibson — ecological affordances C1-or-ungraded
- Erik Rietveld + Julian Kiverstein — skilled intentionality / landscape of affordances C1-or-ungraded
- Jenny L. Davis — How Artifacts Afford / affordance theory C1-or-ungraded
Black Native Land Guardrails 9 leads
- Tiffany Lethabo King — The Black Shoals C2
- Shona N. Jackson — Creole Indigeneity C2
- Glen Sean Coulthard — Red Skin, White Masks C2
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — As We Have Always Done; Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back C2
- Audra Simpson — Mohawk Interruptus C2
- Eve Tuck + K. Wayne Yang — Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor C1-or-ungraded
- Mishuana Goeman — Mark My Words C1-or-ungraded
- Robyn Maynard + Leanne Simpson — Rehearsals for Living C1-or-ungraded
- Elizabeth Povinelli — Geontologies; Economies of Abandonment C1-or-ungraded
Contemporary Capture Media AI 16 leads
- Simone Browne — Dark Matters C2
- Safiya Umoja Noble — Algorithms of Oppression C2
- Ruha Benjamin — Race After Technology; Viral Justice C2
- Joy Buolamwini — Gender Shades; Unmasking AI C2
- Abeba Birhane — algorithmic injustice / colonization / audits C2
- Nick Couldry + Ulises A. Mejias — The Costs of Connection / data colonialism C2
- Kate Crawford — Atlas of AI C1-or-ungraded
- Jackie Kay + Atoosa Kasirzadeh + Shakir Mohamed — epistemic injustice in generative AI C1-or-ungraded
- Deja Workman + Christopher L. Dancy — Wynterian / AI-development critique C1-or-ungraded
- Zizi Papacharissi — Affective Publics C1-or-ungraded
- danah boyd — It's Complicated C1-or-ungraded
- Zeynep Tufekci — Twitter and Tear Gas C1-or-ungraded
- Robert Entman — framing C1-or-ungraded
- Robert Benford + David Snow — social-movement framing C1-or-ungraded
- Timnit Gebru — Gender Shades; data/AI accountability C1-or-ungraded
- Miranda Fricker + Kristie Dotson — epistemic injustice and silencing C1-or-ungraded
Speculative Literary Visual Companions 11 leads
- Toni Morrison — Beloved; Playing in the Dark C2
- Erna Brodber — Myal; Louisiana C2
- M. NourbeSe Philip — Zong!; She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks C2
- Dionne Brand — A Map to the Door of No Return C1-or-ungraded
- Kei Miller — The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion C1-or-ungraded
- Nalo Hopkinson — Brown Girl in the Ring; Midnight Robber C1-or-ungraded
- Ben Okri — The Famished Road C1-or-ungraded
- Maya Deren — Divine Horsemen C1-or-ungraded
- Marisa Parham — haunting and displacement scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Renée Alexander Craft — circum-Caribbean performance / folklore C1-or-ungraded
- Ato Quayson — Aesthetic Nervousness / urban embodiment C1-or-ungraded
Biblical Ecclesial Legal Jurisdiction 13 leads
- Bernard M. Levinson — Deuteronomy, legal revision and centralization scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Chaya Halberstam — biblical/rabbinic law and truth scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Walter Brueggemann — prophetic imagination / Hebrew Bible scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- David W. Kling — Christian interpretation / historical authority scholarship C1-or-ungraded
- Irenaeus — apostolic succession and Rome; primary text lead C1-or-ungraded
- Tertullian — Petrine/keys interpretation; primary text lead C1-or-ungraded
- Cyprian — episcopal unity / apostolic power; primary text lead C1-or-ungraded
- Leo I — Petrine authority in Roman See; primary text lead C1-or-ungraded
- Innocent III — plenitudo potestatis; primary text lead C1-or-ungraded
- 1736 English Witchcraft Act — primary legal object C1-or-ungraded
- 1760 Jamaica Obeah statute — primary legal object C1-or-ungraded
- Deuteronomy 17–18; Isaiah 22:22; Matthew 16:18–19; Matthew 18:18; John 20:23; Acts/Pentecost — primary scriptural objects C1-or-ungraded
- Genesis 5; 1 Enoch; Jude; Hebrews 11 — primary scriptural/apocalyptic objects C1-or-ungraded
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