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... anniversary of the arson attack, our country is burning. It is hardly the first time. We ask how we can be accomplices in bringing into being more livable futures by blowing on the creative and life-giving embers that are already smoldering around us. abolition feminism decriminalization Ending...

... The introduction opens with the night of the arson attack and centers our core theory on the ground for analyzing this attack and connecting it to attacks on Black feminist worlds past, present, future: what we call “the racial capitalism playbook.” In the wake of the fire, research became...

... Chapter 1 opens on the front porch of WWAV’s first organizational home after the arson attack. From this interstitial expanse of southern storytelling, on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we take stock of this so-called resilient city and ask what is concealed in the city’s official...

... significance than their detractors recognized. These illicit actions represent freedpeople’s protest against the retraction of the all-too-brief benefits they had gained during the early 1840s. Sugar Duties Act crisis economy Portuguese Madeirans arson obeah theft crime protest ...