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... Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700,” considers the answer to this deceptively simple question and suggests that the nature of demographic evidence reveals a series of connections across data and ideology that emerge from the early history of the transatlantic slave trade. By focusing...

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... This chapter examines the explanatory functions and lapses of the maternal mortality ratio, the most commonly used maternal health indicator. Unlike people, metrics can be tracked, graphed, compared across time and space, converted to dollars, inserted into equations, and statistically...

... but not necessarily centered in Wayward Lives . It is a recombination of Hartman’s sentences, words, and ideas, crossfading them with R&B lyrics so as to unearth the messy feelings, both negative and positive, behind the numbers, skewed gender ratios, archival intervals, and so many other “official” data...

... This chapter sets out from the contemporary tension between postcolonial and dialectical thinking—in Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou in particular—before turning to the Occupy Movement, and the ratio of the 99 percent, as an entry point for grappling with the dangerous lure of unity. Despite his...

...Getting Good Numbers This chapter examines the explanatory functions and lapses of the maternal mortality ratio, the most commonly used maternal health indicator. Unlike people, metrics can be tracked, graphed, compared across time and space, converted to dollars, inserted into equations...