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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the text to reveal that the “disease” running rampant in early twentieth-century Egypt was not zar, but the scourge of African enslavement and the ever-looming specter of Egypt’s imperial desires in Sudan. The article concludes with a meditation on zar as an archive of African dispossession, displacement...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
... a salary cap to regain control over players’ remuneration. This not only raised revenue but assimilated its growing population of African American players to traditional workplace norms that simultaneously attempted to counter racist stereotypes about their “natural” talents and legitimized ideas...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are read through two groundbreaking anthologies— Dark Matter , a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds , a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... scholarship has been characterized by a utopian nostalgia for the multicultural exchanges linking South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa before the advent of European colonialism. The South African literary critic Isabel Hofmeyr, for example, has described the emergence of an “informal” Anglophone...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peo Hansen; Stefan Jonsson Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press 2017 Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins ofthe European Union Peo Hansen and StefanJonsson 1. At the EU Africa Summit in Lisbon on December 8-9, 2007, the European Union and 53 African states adopted the Lisbon...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
... slavery has long stood as one kind oflimit case for this problem. Although millions of Africans endured the Middle Passage, few survivors managedto leave behind a record oftheir experience. Tens ofmillions were enslaved in theAmericas, but before the flowering ofthe abolitionist move ment, few succeeded...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... strength ofAfrican polities.3 Thus, examples including the refusal of the Obas in Benin to sell any male slaves to the Portuguese after 1530, and unbalanced sex ratios like those found on board the Santiago are noted in the scholarship on African slavery primarily in relation to the strength or weak ness...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Stephanie E. Smallwood Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 The Politics ofthe Archive and History's Accountability to the Enslaved Stephanie E. Smallwood I Somewhere along the thousands of miles of African Atlantic littoral that was the extended site ofthe transatlantic slave...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... the Union leadership in ending slavery: "It was them;' she explained, "that freed the slaves.They give a hand to Lincoln and them other big emancipator men so that they could bring it about a gift from the colored people ofconjuration and power:'3 We should take seriously this account of African powers...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 October 2018
... (1580-1640), when Spain and Portugal were united under the same crown. This political unification opened up new markets in Spain and its American colonies to Portuguese merchants who operated along the African coast, and it provided a stimulus to the slave trade. Especially after 1595, when the so...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., Chol, Quechua, or Aymara; in African languages from regions saturated by the slave trade like coastal Guinea Bissau; and in improvised Creole and Crioulo languages. While it may be difficult to locate and read such archives, this hard work is important because it pluralizes monolithic conceptions...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
... provided a useful foundation for thinking History ofthe Present:AJournal of Critical History, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2017. Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press HISTORY ofthe PRESENT differently about the French Fourth Republic, West African decolonization, and Cesaire's and Senghor's postwar texts...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... approach treats Gandhi as the architect oflndian independence and the mediator ofapassiverevolution. Here a text like Gandhi's Hind Swaraj 35 An Eminent Victorian becomes a manifesto for future political strategy in India, despite the fact that the text itself reflected South African concerns voiced from...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
... bodies as abject, then the full exploitation of female sexuality may proceed: the brothel rises.We can see this, too, in other domains.By promulgating the biblical fantasy that Africans were the disgraced descendants of Ham, Europeans justified the enslavement of millions of Africans and the exploitation...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by political activism after 1960, when the ULR club opened an office and the Partisan Café on Carlisle Street (256–57). However, there is no indication of the polyphony of black sounds emanating from Caribbean and African clubs nearby in Soho or of the South African jazz diaspora playing kwela for South...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Theory . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . Nwokeji G. Ugo . “ African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic .” In “New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Special issue, William and Mary Quarterly 58 , no. 1 ( 2001 ): 47 – 68 . https://doi.org/10.2307...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 146–154.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and archive meet. A similar reading ofarchival loss, paucity and erasure even animates scholarship that challenges the foundationalism ofAtlantic slavery as the "origin-story" for the African diaspora.2 Ifabsence is the archival norm for Atlantic studies, it is clear that histories of slavery in South Asia...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and subsequent punishment, but she also relates a story about a “plantation master” being angered by his slaves’ baptism ceremony of a newborn, highlighting that keeping to their African rituals could also be a form of resistance for the enslaved. 10 In this digital display, the patron sits passively...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... that the perpetrators of violence, discrimination, and abuse are free to operate with impunity” (Johnson 20). In the 1990s, South African gays and lesbians were confronted with what Ryan Goodman calls the “social experience of sodomy laws” (671). The very existence of laws, whether enforced or not, was a site...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2019
... an anti-imperialist stance, insisting thattesting would continue a long history ofEuropean exploitation and destruction throughout the African continent and the global South. As they debated questions of sovereignty, territory, and the very definitions of war and peace, the internationaldelegates who...
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