... of racial slavery and the site of the plantation. In her introduction, Ross reminds us that Foucault's foundational work on surveillance, Surveiller et punir , “is usually translated into English as Discipline and Punish ”; however, “the examination of racialized surveillance in the antebellum slave...

... States, the stability of the United States as a superpower, our unshakable economy, the undeniability of social mobility, our unlimited individual potential, our pursuit of the true and the good. Focusing specific attention on the representation of modern slavery in season 2, Laura Murphy locates...

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...: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 . Chapel Hill, NC. : U of North Carolina Press , 1996 . McIntyre Charshee C.L. Criminalizing a Race: Free Blacks During Slavery . Queens, New York : Kayode , 1993 . Norcom James . “To Mary Matilda.” Raleigh : James...

.... `` Shaping the Popular Image of Post-Reconstruction American Blacks: The `Coon Song' Phenomenon of the Gilded Age .'' American Quarterly 40 ( 1988 ): 450 - 71 . Foreman P. Gabrielle . `` `Reading Aright': White Slavery, Black Referents, and the Strategy of Histotextuality in Iola Leroy...

... . Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives . New York : New York University Press , 1996 . Foreman Gabrielle . “The Spoken and the Silenced in Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl and Our Nig.” Callaloo 13 : 2 ( Spring 1990 ): 5 - 17 . Freud...

... . Caponigri A. Robert . “Individual, Civil Society, and State in American Transcendentalism.” Critical Essays on American Transcendentalism . Ed. Gura Philip F. Myerson Joel . Boston : G. K. Hall , 1982 . 541 - 60 . Davis Angela Y. “From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery...

... the Thirteenth Amendment (abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude); and the Fourteenth Amendment (providing for equal protection under the law), the Court repeatedly cited and echoed throughout its decision the rhetorical question regarding racial segregation posed by Justice Bradley in his majority...

... novella away from slavery and towards the more international context of deco- lonialization struggles in Africa and Latin America, as well as the Civil Rights Movement at home. Building on Melville's themes, Lowell offers an analysis of the rise and, perhaps, the impending fall of American power...

..., Janus-faced, backward (via, Marti's prologue, to the shadow text of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the historical context of U.S. slavery/abolition) and forward (via Fernandez Retamar's 1978 essay, to a hemispheric women's reform tradition that emerges only later, in the context of the racial and gender...

.... She is also an embodiment of the African-American past of slavery and as such appears as the materialization of Sethe’s desire for the child she killed. This image captures the pain, the exhaustion, and the forlornness of the black spirit. The various images of Beloved thus incarnate...

... . London : Jazz Book Club , 1962 . Chevigny Paul . Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City . New York : Routledge , 1991 . Daniel Pete . The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 . New York : Oxford UP , 1973 . Davis Miles Troupe Quincy...

... . `` What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Poetry .'' Poetry On & Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions . Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern U Press , 1998 . Patterson Orlando . Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study . Cambridge : Harvard U Press , 1982 . Ramazani...

... as they knew it — with Moses leading them, not only out of Egypt, out of their habitual slavery, but also out of their camp in the wilder- ness to be suddenly subjected to a terrifying sound and light show: now at daybreak on the third day there were peals of thunder on the mountain...

.... ethnic literatures, slavery, American labor history, and American Studies. The PEN literary competition for prisoners, established in 1973,4 has cultivated the talents of a wide variety of incarcerated writers; some of the best work from this competition is featured in Bell Gale Chevigny's...

... conditions of enslavement, imprisonment, and social death. In pursuing this rejection and its own immanent intelligibility, Jack- son’s letters become an affirmation of blackness as a condition of emancipated life. “When I revolt slavery dies with me. I refuse to pass it down...

... . Introduction to Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems , by Melville Herman , edited by Brown Lee Rust , i – xvi . New York : Da Capo . Castronovo Russ . 1995 . Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom . Berkeley : University of California...

... in dominance.” Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Eds. Baker . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press , 1996 . Harlow Barbara . Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention . Hanover : Wesleyan Univ. Press , 1992 . Hartman Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery...

..., the miscegenated body, and reproduction. The threat to the reproductive order of white heterosexuality Blade imagines is not the impurity of the European Jew or the colonial subject of Dracula, but the repressed history of the sexual and reproductive logics of plantation slavery...

..., geography and heritage as essentially “marginal” or “minor” in a global context. In lieu of an explicit representation of the violence of present-day human trafficking and slavery, again suggestively footnoted as we are not afforded any visualizations of Idrissa's past, an emotionally understated port city...