... later medieval English texts two centuries later (see, for example, Heng 2003 ). Medieval studies’ debates about race and the “global Middle Ages” have taken on the contours of previous debates about “world literature,” globalization, and comparative racializations in comparative literature...

..., by comparing criminals with “lower races,” it established race as the governing principle for reading criminal bodies; and second, it developed a host of practices combining biology and statistics to decipher criminal/racial bodies. By the turn of the century, somapolitics gained exceptional popularity across...

... into a contemporary world-system that Cedric Robinson and others have called “racial capitalism.” © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Asian American experimental poetry avant-garde comparative racialization racial capitalism References Appadurai Arjun . 1996 . Modernity at Large: Cultural...

..., Recognitions, Feminisms. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Hong, Grace Kyungwon, and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds. Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Durham, NC: Duke Uni- versity Press, 2011. Jalalzai, Zubeda, and David Jefferess, eds...

... centuries. Her research interests include representations of interfaith contact across the medieval Mediterranean, conversion narratives, and genealogy. Christopher Livanos is professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published on medieval Latin literature...

..., including skin color, language, religion, ethnicity, and systemic power. “Medieval race” erroneously presumes that there is only one form of race in the Middle Ages, which can be compared to a similarly fictitious singular “modern race.” This inattention to mobility creates misapprehensions about how race...

... . “ Negro Conscription .” October 20 , 1917 . Phelps Christopher . 2007 . “ The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne .” Socialism and Democracy 21 , no. 1 : 123 – 31 . Weheliye Alexander G. 2014 . Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories...

..., and debauchery He cautions, however, that ‘‘it would certainly be soothing if one could readily believe all this’’ (SBF, 114). But how much of the Social Darwinist story about evolution and racial difference are we to believe? Du Bois raises the question of whether, in the case of European colonial expansion...

... of becoming a fugitive within a carceral state. Morrison confronts readers with a comparably uncanny experience when she deletes from the narrative any trace of the Cold War ideology whose structures of feeling, epistemologies, and military architecture the Korean War was putatively fought to establish...

... inflection. Despite such intentions to liberate ‘‘freedom the American Dic- tionary fails to achieve ahistoricity, its entries burdened with connotations peculiar to U.S. institutions and racial history. This paradox that seeks...

... the globalization of racial thought in its latest civilizationist guise. To establish this present moment as the contested future of the long tradition of antiracist humanism outlined by Gilroy, the essay draws on the thought of Erich Auerbach and C. L. R. James to develop a schema that firmly anchors...

..., science, and technology in US literature. His current book project examines racialized automaton figures in the modernist era; a second project focuses on racial objectification in contemporary experimental Black poetry. His essays have appeared in the Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures , Journal...

... to the subtle racialized landscape of Chaucer's fourteenth-century General Prologue to highlight its deeply rooted white epistemology—one that imagines people exclusively within the framework of Christian and European. Michelle R. Warren's ( 2023 ) essay also insists that advancing scholarship to more...

... of intellectual formation. In noting how racial ideology is a driving force in the Darfur violence, Harir draws atten- tion to the absence of any comparably forceful nonracial secular ideol- ogy capable of producing consent by ‘‘educating’’ the consciousness of the masses. This was demonstrated in the failure...

... in France. In the United States, prison also works as a system of racial segregation that is today comparable to the Jim Crow laws, as Michelle Alexander ( 2010 ) rightly pointed out. However, the most surprising thing is the similarity of the practices and situations experienced by prisoners all over...

...Joseph Pugliese Duke University Press 2007 Biometrics, Infrastructural Whiteness, and the Racialized Zero Degree of Nonrepresentation Joseph Pugliese Introduction This essay examines the point of intersection...

... Robert J. C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His most recent book is an edition of writings by Frantz Fanon, edited with Jean Khalfa, Alienation and Freedom (2018). He is editor of the journal Interventions: International...

... ignored what Žižek described as Obama’s manipulation of the “power of illusions.” Comparing his election to other world historical events, like the French Revolution, the successful slave revolt in Haiti, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, that defied historical explanation, Žižek concluded...

... provided inspiration for the conquest of Algeria. Surveying the vast expanse of the Algerian plains, the French conquistadores of Africa compared themselves to New World pioneers, and those they dubbed indigènes to American Indians. For some, “extermination” was a noble precedent in the pursuit of racial...

... with distinctive racial, geographic, and historical characteristics. Finally, the careful cultivation of unity across caste, region, and religious practice coupled with the well-demarcated “outside”—the pariah—engineered a congregational space, eminently geophysical, as the destruction of the Babri Masjid...