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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Tami Navarro
Tami Navarro is the Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) and Editor of the journal Scholar and Feminist Online. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, and has held positions at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and Wesleyan University. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Anthropological Association, and the Ford Foundation. Tami’s work has been published in Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Transforming Anthropology, Small Axe Salon, Social Text, The Caribbean Writer, and The Global South. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Virgin Capital: Financial Services as Development in the US Virgin Islands.
Barnard College