Publications

Journal Articles

  • Sobande, F., & Amponsah, E. L. (2024). Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(2), 400–421.
  • Amponsah, E-L. (2023). Black dis/engagement: negotiating mainstream media presence and refusal. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(5), 1037-1055.
  • Amponsah, E. L. (2023). Towards a Black Cultural Memory: Black Consciousness and Connectivity in the Online-Offline Continuum. African Diaspora, 15(1), 28-54.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2021). Black women in and beyond Belgian mainstream media: Between opinion–making, dissidence, and marronage. Feminist Media Studies, 21(8), 1285-1301.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2017). Mixed couples, mixed feelings: feelings of white supremacy and black inferiority amongst black-white couples in Belgium and the Netherlands. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 20(2), 165-181.

Book Chapters

  • Amponsah, E.-L., Kanobana S., & Demart, S. (2025). A Language of Blackness: Black Subjectivity and Black Activist Politics in Belgium. In Adam, I., Beaman, J., & Jung, M. (Eds.), In A New Wave of Antiracism in Europe: From the Margins to the Center? (pp. 151–166). Springer Nature .
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2021). Black Love: een radicale liefdesethiek?. In K. De Greave & R. Roodsaz (Eds.), Intieme Revoluties (Boom) (pp. 53-68). Amsterdam: Boom.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2020). Een draaiboek voor dekolonisatie: hoe het niet moet. In Publiekeacties (Eds.), Being Imposed Upon (pp. 145-156). Eindhoven: Onnomatopee.

CONFERENCE

  • Amponsah, E. L. (2024). What is this ‘Black’ in political Blackness?. Black Multiplicities, African Multiplicities? (Göttingen, Germany).
  • Amponsah, E. L., Aral, T., Juan, L. P. & Van Veen, P. D. (2024). Search, (en)Joy, Speak Back: Redefining "Good" Science to Transform and Diversify Academia & Beyond. Berlin Science Week (Berlin, Germany).
  • Amponsah, E.-L. on behalf of Black Speaks Back (2024). Zwarte Ibis: An audiovisual exploration of Black intimacy. IAMCR / FLow34 (Christchurch, New Zealand).
  • Amponsah, E. L. (2023). Shifting discourses of blackness and Black subjectivity in Europe and Belgium. Intersectional, Postcolonial and Digital Approaches (Paris, France).
  • Amponsah, E.-L. on behalf of Black Speaks Back (2022). KREYOLIZATION II. Hacking The White Cube. New Creative Praxis in Film and Television (Istanbul, Turkey).
  • Amponsah, E.-L. on behalf of Black Speaks Back (2021). KREYOLIZATION II - Escaping the White Cube. IAMCR / Flow34.
  • Amponsah, E.-L., Kanobana S., & Demart, S. (2021). The languages of blackness in Belgium. A Second Wave of Antiracism in Europe? (VUB, Brussels).
  • Amponsah, E.-L. on behalf of Black Speaks Back (2019). Kreyolization. Resisting Assimilation Violences in Dutch and Flemish education. On the Matter of Blackness in Europe (Los Angeles, CA).
  • Amponsah, E.-L. on behalf of Black Speaks Back (2019). Kreyolization. On knowledge, education and Resistance among Black students in Flanders and The Netherlands. Afroeuropeans Network Conference.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2019). Mediated memories of Congolese independence: tracing colonial discourses in contemporary Belgian news media. Empire’s Metropolitan Afterlives (UCL, London).

Media

  • Amponsah, E-L. (2025, March 26). Carnivorendieet. De Groene Amsterdammer.
  • Amponsah, E-L. & Jung, M. (2024, October 4). Dierenbevrijding en antiracisme hoeven niet te concurreren. OneWorld.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2024, March 2). Waarom we niet altijd de wensen van de ouders moeten respecteren. De Standaard.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2023, November 21). On Black Cultural Memory. History Workshop.
  • Amponsah, E-L. (2023, May 12). Een lintje doet niets tegen racisme. OneWorld.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2020, July 5). Een maand na het grootste antiracismeprotest in de Belgische geschiedenis dreigt alles weer te worden zoals het was. De Morgen.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2019, May 8). White women are the n***ers of the world. Rekto:Verso.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. & Van Bavel, H. (2018, February 5). Kleur bekennen: Dit is waarom witte mensen niet blank zijn. Knack.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. (2018, March 22). Black: weg emancipatie. Rekto:Verso.
  • Amponsah, E.-L. & Van Bavel, H. (2016, October 14). Waarom witte mensen niet blank zijn. Knack.