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..., with displays on one side addressing historical developments in Europe and, on the other, developments in Africa. The very first placard announces, “Slavery became based on perceptions of race. Enslaved people were considered property and dehumanized. Slavery was an inherited status and passed down through...

... into the curriculum ( Schwartz 2010 ); at the same time, American slavery practices were given euphemisms such as “Atlantic triangular trade” and the term slavery was to be excised from public school textbooks ( Paulson 2010 ). This investment in Holocaust education is reciprocated and compatible...

... terrorist threats. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 prehistory slavery maritime insurance financialization risk Unknown space is unprofitable space. To begin to use space, it is necessary to comprehensively apprehend it, to not only map its boundaries and coordinates but also register...

..., Guayabo, that is located in the coastal province of Chincha, Peru. As we visited coastal plantations, he shared with me that after the abolishment of slavery, Chinese coolies were introduced as indentured servants, a legitimized form of slavery, to replenish the labor forces needed to construct a New...

... that focuses on market and exchange relations while neglecting the sphere of production. For Robotham, by reducing politics to cultural politics, Hall neglects economics. In Chapter 3, Robotham criticizes Paul Gilroy for focusing on the role of the colonial period and slavery in the development of racism. He...

...Henry Powell References Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kaczynski Theodore John . 2010 . Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber...

... story of endless debt repayment. Of course, while one is locked into a lifetime of debt, one is unable to think beyond the next paycheck and, in a wider sense, must accept endless wage slavery under whatever conditions are offered by capitalism. Effectively, then, one becomes a slave to debt...

... and its history of plantation slavery. She has remained an active participant in Cuba’s cultural politics since. Figure 1 Cuban Office of the Secretary of Works, Dr. C. M. de Cespedes Presensiando las Maniobras realizadas para la colocación de la Estatua, no. 8196 , photograph, May 1929. Courtesy...

... to hip-hop. Artists like desi rapper Chee Malabar, one-half of the duo Himalayan Project, refer to a shared history of multiple displacements, of slavery and indentured servitude, and of colonial histories that intersected in the Caribbean and on routes back to the metropolis: Himalayan Project's album...

... was and still is employed in colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial contexts and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. The focus here should be not only on local differences but also on different forms of philistinization employed throughout the extensive encounter of the West with “the rest” (from slavery...

... meditation. Capitalism has been ending worlds for centuries through slavery, colonialism, and imperialism (Coulthard 2014 ; Federici 2004). It has sought to divide nature and humanity through strategies of racial hierarchy, violence, and externalization of ecological harm (Moore 2015 ; Whyte 2017...

... . “ At the Roots of Plant Neurobiology .” In Plant Electrophysiology , edited by Volkov Alexander G. , 3 – 43 . Berlin : Springer . Spiegel Marjorie . ( 1988 ) 1996 . The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery . New York : Mirror . Subramaniam Banu . 2019 . Holy Science...

... of slavery, a utopian one? There was a time when many political thinkers would have named abolition of slavery as utopian. Does that make their claim no more than a daydream? Gray appears to ignore the common assumption that to achieve some of the most basic political gains an originally utopian impulse...

... to the hierarchies of the biopolitics of feeling”—as a necessary first step toward other kinds of relationships and politics that are not governed by white sentimentality. After all, as Davis ( 2003 ) points out, institutions such as prisons or police—or slavery and segregation before their abolition—are deeply...

... such as amongst Bantu-speakers in the south. When Africans were forced into slavery in the Americas, itutu became a means of maintaining a sense of dignity in oppressive conditions. There is an obvious line here from slavery through mid-twentieth century hipster and jazz culture to present-day street style, hip...

... of the) slave as an instrument, as an extension of his own body. In this way the idea of slavery brings with it a constitutive division within the human between a body reduced to others’ instrumental use and another, properly “human” one ( Agamben 2015 : 9). As such, the slave is defined not so much...

... of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press . Brienen Rebecca P. 2013 . “ Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641): Ethnographic Portraiture, Slavery, and the New World Subject .” In Slave Portraiture...

... narco fantasy as a “struggle between an older version of patriarchy and a new version that is overly informed by the reality of advanced capitalism.” In We Real Cool , hooks ( 2003 ) describes how Black-power militants unmasked wage slavery and denounced a system built by Black men who never received...

... and twentieth centuries could then be called on as living witnesses to the Marxist thesis that the wage contract is merely the juridical mask of a new slavery. Promethean coal was joined from the end of the nineteenth century by those further fossil-energy vectors, oil and natural gas – both of them agents...

... monopoly and from resources (including Chilean nitrates) by the Royal Navy. The second pillar also secured a steady supply, though this was one of cannon fodder rather than goods. While other colonial powers such as France and Belgium reduced their black and yellow subjects to Spartan work slavery...