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| Introduction: Theory in the wild J Halberstam, T Nyong’o South Atlantic Quarterly 117 (3), 453-464, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
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| Queer Africa and the fantasy of virtual participation T Nyong'o Women's Studies Quarterly 40 (1/2), 40-63, 2012 | 68 | 2012 |
| The scene of occupation T Nyong'o TDR/The Drama Review 56 (4), 136-149, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| Situating Precarity between the Body and the Commons T Nyong'o Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23 (2), 157-161, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Unburdening representation T Nyong'o The Black Scholar 44 (2), 70-80, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| School daze T Nyong’o Bully bloggers 30, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Afro-philo-sonic fictions: Black sound studies after the Millennium T Nyong'o Small Axe 18 (2), 173-179, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| The Amalgamation Waltz: Race T Nyongo Performance, and the Ruses of Memory, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents T Nyong'o Electronica, Dance and Club Music, 165-176, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Trapped in the Closet with Eve T Nyong'o Criticism 52 (2), 243-251, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
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