... racial progress melancholy black literature critical theory strange-bedfellow approach ...

..., this chapter show how a certain logic of progress operates on both sides of the political and ideological spectrum. While the image of racial progress is seductive, the introduction argues that it too often undermines our capacity to remember and contemplate the violence that is both justified and denied...

... The conclusion explores the links between genomic science and ideas of progress (toward racial democracy, health, freedom) and then looks at ideas about Latin America as a racial exception and as a useful resource for genomic science and its progressive agenda. It then argues that in fact...

... The work of John Dewey has been widely invoked in recent endeavors to harness habit to progressive programs of social change, particularly in relation to questions of race. While acknowledging the significance of Dewey's work, this chapter also probes its limitations, particularly when his...

... with disciplining gendered and racialized labor and also extracting nonlabor surplus value from disabled populations. The history of institutions shows that the transition away from laissez-faire included developing the carceral system. Progressives surplus population surplus value Frank Norris ...

... This chapter draws attention to film as a medium that both reinforces and contests images of progress. After reviewing themes that are pertinent to race and film studies as well as critical theory, this chapter looks at films that offer different ways of viewing and thinking about race, progress...

... marked by hypercompetence but aggressively assimilationist in his diasporic outlook. What Kitsuragi provides is less a yellow perilist counterpoint to white interiority and more a semipermeable model minoritarian sounding board on which the player can gauge DuBois’s emotional progress. Moreover, Asian...

... highlights the distinctions of Antigua’s uprising, in particular with Antiguan rebels first shaping their movement against Barbudans in equal racial and socioeconomic position to them, and then progressing to opposing more-powerful others. The 1858 riot, in light of the preceding struggles, big and small...

... or economic and technological progress, but instead was associated with the racial, ethnic, and cultural composition of the nation. By the mid-1950s, however, the topic of morality took another turn when Cuba’s Ministry of Communication joined the battle against “immorality” on television. Debates about...

... undergrounds that could grow, move, and reproduce. In other words, placing carceral mines in their historic racialized geographies disrupts the narrative of national “progress” that is articulated through architectural infrastructures of iron and steel in industrialization, and demonstrates the white spatial...

... “Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1950s” returns to city hall's intensified racial biopolitical fantasy of a white city through the forging of a contradictory space of industrialization and residential segregation. Through a series of commissions culminating in racial...

... Although the painting Both Members of This Club (1909) by George Bellows—a member of a group of painters known as the Ashcan school—has been explicitly discussed in terms of its interactions with rhetorics of manhood (or even the artist’s progressive idealism), such analyses remain largely...

... This conversation is organized by two questions: How do we make sense of the fact that racist and colonial structures of human fatality have persisted, and at times seem to have grown in reach and sophistication, in the aftermath of the past half century’s major movements for progressive social...

... history and ethnography of the Americas. Chanca’s representations of Caribbean Indigenous gender and sexual relations as “beastly” inaugurates racialized discourses of deviancy that justify conquest in the nascent workings of transatlantic capital. A queer reading of this text unsettles discourses...

... “The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle, 1940s” revisits the violence of biopolitical territorialization in the previous chapter through the insights of Black radical feminist critique that also emerged in this conjuncture in particularly powerful ways. The articulation of racial biopolitics...

... racial double speaks where those who are familiar with the context can easily spot the hidden Japanese discourse and find some level of catharsis, while others can enjoy the game for its more universal and hopeful message about finding comfort in unity when facing future precarity. The chapter also...

... Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1950s” returns to city hall's intensified racial biopolitical fantasy of a white city through the forging of a contradictory space of industrialization and residential segregation. Through a series of commissions culminating in racial planning during World War II...

... the unanticipated intimacies between bodies, temporalities, and geographies that are the product of overlapping histories of racialization, diasporic dislocation, settler colonialism, and militarism. Just as crucially, these practices envision resilient strategies of dwelling and creating vibrant lifeworlds off...