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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 157–180.
Published: 01 November 2019
... together otherwise discrepant histories of enslavement, dispossession, and exclusion. A kind of historical primer preoccupied with the ways in which space, time, bodies, and laboring activity are rendered measurable and exchangeable, Dura traces the transformation of an older colonial racial order...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 105–133.
Published: 01 May 2007
...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...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joshua Lam Abstract In the last two decades, African American poets working in innovative and avant‐garde forms have produced poetry focused upon the theme of racial objectification. Individual and collaborative projects by Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, and Ronaldo V. Wilson, who write...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in New Jersey in 1966, which he uses to settle philosophical scores with the Nation of Islam. Although the play borrows its plot from the Nation of Islam's myth of Yakub, which casts the white race as fundamentally monstrous, A Black Mass resists a vision of history as racial destiny. It does so, first...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 195–230.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jennifer Blaylock Television in Ghana was born at a radical time when Africans across the continent were boldly inventing systems of governance resistant to imperialism and racial inequality. Alongside the formation of the new state, the new medium was designed to help realize visions of Pan...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2015
... difficult (sometimes painful) racial humor? Is there something about being “of a darker hue” and the social experience in the world accompanying that bodily existence that compels an increasing number of writers of color to dance in the fields of experiment, play, irony, and other boundary-pushing modes...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 May 2015
... over prevention of human suffering. Republicans craft stories that position them as involuntary victims, even as they act as aggressors. Issues including the racial politics of Barack Obama’s presidency, income inequality, gun control, the “War on Women,” and gay marriage all share similarities...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 2024
... to the discursive, historiographic, and iconographic dimensions of racialized gender and sexuality in a reading of the failed philological proposal of thon and the life and public memory of the military figure Private William Cathay. [email protected] Copyright ©2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 55–66.
Published: 01 May 2009
... political vision with a commitment to the interpersonal intimacies of language in the human mouth, speaking across ethnic and racial lines. Duke University Press 2009 Violence and the Human Voice:
Critique and Hope in Native Speaker
Jonathan...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 191–220.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of the human that perpetuate the devaluing of blackness, this essay examines, through an analysis of Parks’s play and Walker’s cutout, what I call an aesthetic of “disalienation,” which loosens the hold of ever-present racial signifiers ready to reinscribe racist formulations of blackness. Through their acts...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 August 2023
... scholars share the “now” with each other and with their predecessors from other millennia? And how might this perspective transform racial epistemologies? Inspired by the millennial thinker, Henry of Huntingdon (d. 1157), the article connects the Long Now Foundation, the 10,000-Year Clock, the poet T. S...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 29–46.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Anthony Bogues Arguing that the processes of racial slavery and colonialism were “historically catastrophic,” thereby creating the grounds for different sets of questions about the human and the meanings of freedom, this essay maps some of the ways in which these questions have been posed from...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 127–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., 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...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 159–163.
Published: 01 August 2017
... is compelled by discomfort, by pain, and by radical self-creation. “A Black Poetics” also proposes that that fragile space on the other side of mastery—the space where we are least comfortable, least familiar—is what racializes the creative process. References Agamben Giorgio . 2011 . Nudities...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
Published: 01 May 2021
... time and the keen interest of colonial intellectuals on some of the poet's favorite topics, such as Hellenistic racial and cultural hybridity; Cavafy's encounters with major colonial figures, including Evelyn Baring (1st Earl of Cromer), T. E. Lawrence, and Ronald Storrs; and the interpretative...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., puzzling term: bastard sugar , the “impure” sugar left after many boilings. Its brief role in the age of emancipation, and the crisis that emancipation posed for West Indian sugar, raise questions about the relationship between racialization, value, and legitimacy in the New World. Guided by the thought...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 195–226.
Published: 01 November 2023
... than with imperialism and racial injustice. Saboteurs targeted computational collaborations with the Department of Defense, and they held computers hostage in exchange for increased support for Black students. This does not mean that computers themselves were irrelevant to computer center sabotage...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 119–156.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Tamara Lea Spira This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 153–194.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in both areas has been
the effort to reveal the status of whiteness as an unmarked marker and to
expose its historical contingency as a racial category.1 Other minority groups
have figured only tangentially in the historiography and sociology of white-
ness, thereby entrenching the black-white binary...
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