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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 decolonization diaspora postcolonialism cultural studies Black...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... understanding colonialism and “its after-effects” (24). The constitution of academic fields frequently works against thinking these together, and even many analyses of black Britain have little connection to colonial histories. Familiar Stranger is a provocation intended to counter the “strange imperatives...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of Akala’s chapter on race and policing in Britain as viewed through his existence as a Black male teenager in northwest London during the 1990s did not explicitly reference Stuart Hall, it occurred to me that Akala’s text provided a means of introducing Stuart Hall, even if not by name, to a new generation...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
...: The Maternal Function in Recent Black Cin- ema. Film Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2017): 46 52. Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanna Scafe. Heart of the Race: Black Women s Lives in Britain. London: Virago, 1985. Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., Brower noted, captured tsarist Russia’s ambivalence toward hajj. This ambivalence would continue to inform how Russia, as well as Britain, approached the hajj throughout the steamship era. As important studies by John Slight and Eileen Kane have shown, these rival empires saw opportunities...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Zach Sell Abstract Historians of the United States have often described slavery as guided by the chattel principle. Yet in Black Reconstruction , W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, “No matter how degraded the factory hand, he is not real estate.” This article builds upon Du Bois’s description of slavery’s...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... hearts.This appearance either clocks some distance traveled, progress made, or-the sign of black flesh being always plastic-just the reverse, and instead marks history's arrest, making the ex slave our contemporary.7To equate blackness with abjection is neither hard math in our particular discursive...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... with the chorus (“White riot, I wanna riot / White riot, a riot of my own”), and the first stanza affirms that “Black man gotta lot a problems / But they don’t mind throwing a brick” ( The Clash ). 15 In Mohawk Interruptus , Audra Simpson offers a similarly metacognitive approach, “ethnographic refusal...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 160–197.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and pedagogical techniques of adolescent normalization. The conclusio,n proposes some analytical implications of this study for understandings of youth in the global time of decolonization. Historical Time and the Prevailing Vice In 1929, Britain's annual report to the League of Nations on the Mandate of Iraq...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... cosmopolitanism Afro-Asia Third World humanism Black studies “Our boat is bound for Africa / . . . Remember what grandmother said? / If you don’t keep that parasol / Over your head / You’ll turn into a little black girl.” —Meena Alexander, “Indian Ocean Blues” In December 2018, following years...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the pustule reveals the uncomfortable demographic realities of migration into the budding urban center of Alexandria for Black Africans, Upper Egyptians, Bedouins, and Northern Egyptian peasants. Egyptian colonialism and enslavement were the true disease. Madar al-Zar is one of the first published...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... but overlapping legal petitions against the planters who worked to control their labor, this essay seeks to distill a shared battle around Black mothering and to reconsider what it means to mother in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world, respectively. In so doing, this essay contributes...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
... have (according to him), a band of Muslim rappers named Sexion d'.Assaut,young black men from theFrench "banlieues" who were soon to pub licly repent their homophobic stance, I was at the time "too busy lynching" a sociologist, Hugues Lagrange, who had just published, to considerable media acclaim...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the “end of the world.” For many Black female writers, for much of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries the history of anti-Blackness has been framed as a Manichean battle between the Black male enslaved ego and the white male master self ( hooks ). Maybe this is why the Caribbean philosopher...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 April 2014
... ofinquisition. As a part ofthe proceedings, King's Bench in Britain issued a writ ofmandamus to Port ofSpain, Trinidad, ordering a court ofsessions to gather information for the case. At the beginning ofthe Trinidadian sessions court, the counsel for the prosecution, Charles Augustus Hayes, asked Francisco de...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Baltimore as son ofa freedwoman and as a "black" carpenter on the schooner Ibis and arrives in Calcutta as the second mate; passing as white, he is designated Malum Zikri by the "lascar" crew. Time and again Amitav Ghosh's story probes the power and the limits of naming, drawing unstable borders for race...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of their purported white ness against the purported blackness of the enslaved. White freedom, in other words, depended on Black slavery.Moreover, this social antagonism congealed into a sort of racialized "common sense;' such that whiteness came to be associated with freedom and blackness with enslavement.3 For his...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... completed by the doctors Don Roberto Day and Surgeon Don Joseph Motegui, concerning the pregnancy of the free black woman Cecilia, 9 is inconclusive of whether or not it is such a pregnancy and consists only of the declaration of the aforesaid, suspend for a period of two months the death penalty...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and celebrate abolition, using monuments, public markers, and exhibitions as a means of making amends for the role their town or city played in New World slavery and commemorating its end. In Amsterdam the National Slavery Sculpture in Oosterpark commemorates the 1863 abolition, and a Black History Heritage...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 55–83.
Published: 01 April 2019
... as "particularly ugly and disrespectful:' In the English-language version, the state organ of North Korea referred to Obama as "a wicked black monkey" and "a crossbreed with unclear blood:' The Korean-language edition elaborated in even less restrained rhetoric. Nevertheless, in its analysis of the rant...
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