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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... real estate basis and considers real estate as central to both slavery and territorial expansion in the nineteenth-century United States. Real estate formed the basis of slaveholder family stability and also enabled the intergenerational transfer of wealth. The article also considers the continuing...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the plantation, while also working against the extractive tributaries of the international order. Further, the article suggests that keeping alive a historical consciousness around how industrial racial regimes are produced, disturbed, and fractured is vital to countering the harms of our plantation present...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the state also has to present the problems in need of being solved. This study focuses on how the problem of intolerance is represented in governmental policies. The study positions tolerance as a symptomatic politics of regulation of the self as well as minorities. In a detailed study of an exhibition...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
... subterranean darkness into a manifestation of racialized Blackness. But the writers’ racialization of Mammoth Cave also had a tendency to slip out of their control. As they associated its spatial darkness with racialized Blackness, the literal underground of Mammoth Cave flickered into an underground...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the sulāliyāt that operates outside urban centers, but also beyond the universalist language of feminism related to abstract notions of female autonomy and gender equality. Deeply rooted in socioeconomic issues, including land expropriation and the displacement of local peasant populations in the name of reform...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the historical situation—in feminism and more generally—that occasioned Riley’s 1988 work while also reading her work in relation to the challenges of our current moment. Riley’s phenomenological account of the inconstancy of gendered being is read for its resonances with contemporary transfeminist work while...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a subject and as a problem. They each also have forgotten genealogies. This article outlines these genealogies and their intersection through the politics of translating Islam as submission, peace, or salvation; of narrating its place and temporality in modernity; and of reinterpreting historical texts...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... more attention. It also explores the Afro-Asian antinomies of Indian Ocean studies as a reflection of broader critical ambivalences about questions of colonial humanism and anticolonial liberation. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Indian Ocean...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Arabia, one that demolition and historical revision—now mundane universal practices—seek to permanently erase. Doing so also delivers profound lessons on the figure of the migrant as scholar, on the imperative of transcending national history, and on thinking of history itself as punctured by continuous...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
... also claimed that this forgetting is particularly evident in the Global South, which experienced the worst devastation. If the Spanish flu has been forgotten, what would its memorialization look like? The first part of this essay outlines the dangers of presuming a proper mode of remembering...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and childrearing are the heart and engine of both slave racial capitalism and contemporary forms of reproductive racial capitalism. They are also the sites from which reproductive racial capitalism and its exploitative conditions were contested under slavery, are being challenged in the present moment, and yet...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... claims: (1) the history of slavery is also a history of same-sex sexual terror, (2) the sexual terror of slavery included reproductive sexual violence but was not limited to it, and (3) Incidents is ultimately a story about sexual terror and protest against it in the form of fugitivity. In making...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... While genocide and nuclear catastrophe oriented the world imagination toward the specter of planetary annihilation, the “final solution” and the atomic bombings also cleave from one another in significant ways. In the space of postwar Europe, the history of the Holocaust is settled: Nazis were...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that these resources can sometimes be understood not merely as educational tools but also as digital commemorations of slave revolt. Finally, engaging with theory on monuments, memory, and history, this piece explains why digital commemorations existing in virtual space might productively acknowledge our discomfort...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the flow that one is able to understand what drives the settler-colonial practices of this new generation of postideological settlers. More than a worldview, the flow is an existential force that animates these people’s settler-colonial way of being in the world. In disclosing the flow , this article also...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and endures into the present. Racialized (re)productive accumulation exploited she whom Spillers often denotes as “the captive female,” and, also, paradoxically, ungendered her. Ultimately, through examination of the process of ungendering in Atlantic slavery, the essay suggests that Spillers opens up new...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the 1970s. It puts Laroui in dialogue with other intellectual voices of this time to illustrate the originality of his call for the public role of historians of decolonization. The article also discusses Laroui’s political withdrawal in the next decade and his shift from Marxism to liberal state reformism...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in a booming surrogacy industry. Surrogacy and other reproductive technologies also emerge as sites of reproductive resistance through practices of surrogacy strikes and sperm smuggling. Since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel has been known for its pronatalist policies, aimed at high birth...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 55–71.
Published: 01 April 2025
... of three successive generations of Marxists, but also into the ever-renewable actuality of history for the present. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Thomas Müntzer historiography Ernst Bloch Friedrich Engels Karl Kautsky The whole [revolution...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., the interdependencies and hetero­ geneities that imperialism itself had created.In their view decolonization would have to overcome republican colonialism and unitary republicanism, empiresandnationalstates.To be successful, it would also need to transform metropolitan socialrelationsandreorganizeworld politics...