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... and Innovation Dossier / Kearney 33 The Anti/Ante-­Regulative from A Natural History of Inequality this mud smirch of amok, it’s you isn’t we? ain’t’n’t responsible for messes of mess were made by what are who? ain’t it tainted, ain’t it a taint, ain’t taint I? we make to stay at dunging up dung...

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... more difficult to avoid. If you’re young and have a hood you better keep your nose clean and your face seen. If you black get in line, cos they ain’t forgot about you, boo. boundary 2 33:2 (2006) © 2006 by Duke University Press...

... more difficult to avoid. If you’re young and have a hood you better keep your nose clean and your face seen. If you black get in line, cos they ain’t forgot about you, boo. boundary 2 33:2 (2006) © 2006 by Duke University Press...

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... more difficult to avoid. If you’re young and have a hood you better keep your nose clean and your face seen. If you black get in line, cos they ain’t forgot about you, boo. boundary 2 33:2 (2006) © 2006 by Duke University Press...

... more difficult to avoid. If you’re young and have a hood you better keep your nose clean and your face seen. If you black get in line, cos they ain’t forgot about you, boo. boundary 2 33:2 (2006) © 2006 by Duke University Press...

... more difficult to avoid. If you’re young and have a hood you better keep your nose clean and your face seen. If you black get in line, cos they ain’t forgot about you, boo. boundary 2 33:2 (2006) © 2006 by Duke University Press...

..., always the framer of his own reception, introduces the work as “a poem influenced by Stevie Wonder and Al Green.”41 The piece is a selfproclaimed “Communist poem” that forcefully argues that “there is no super nothing which entitles nobody to oppress nobody” and “ain’t nothing legitimatizes...

... of Mississippi Press, 2005. Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, and Lauri Ramey, eds. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthol- ogy of Innovative Poetry by African Americans. Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 228 boundary 2 / Fall 2006 Panagia, Davide. The Poetics of Political...

... :: signs, wonders, miracles, temptations :: three or four, tops :: hip hops, microbrews, microaggressions, address ’em and drop the mic :: ain’t nothing new, son, about us being under the gun :: checked in the black box, never a dull minute, o pen it, mighty muse, flighty music, put de light...

... Ain't I a Woman had already found an uncontested home in Spillers's bibliography. The year 1984 would see the publication of Spillers's “Interstices.” The year 1985 would see the publication of Spillers's “An Order of Constancy.” The year 1987 would see the publication of Hazel Carby's Reconstructing...