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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in these terms that Hall comes to embrace diaspora as what he calls “an emergent space of inquiry” (144). He adds that “to think of yourself as diasporic, as I now do, has therefore become a sort of substitute for ‘identity’” (144). It is a substitute not by re-creating the conditions of identity with its narrow...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
...’ . . . was an attribute of being, formative because it framed your existence. . . . It positioned you as a subject-‘author’ as well as subjecting you to its discourse” (21). Early on, Hall highlights legacies of the colonial encounters, transatlantic slave trade, and slavery that produced the African diaspora...
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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 (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 (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... place, which presents opportunities for reading the African diaspora as an intervention in prevailing Indian Ocean thought but also vice versa: Indian Ocean studies as a site of theorizing the African diaspora. I read Ghosh as attempting to grasp the radical insufficiency of the modern “economy...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 71–77.
Published: 01 April 2012
... talk about the generic, writerly challenges oftelling the story they wish to tell about the relationship ofIndian diaspora colonies to the independence movement in India, they say that they will start "not at the beginning or even here in the middle but closer to the end:' Their reasoning...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... perhaps a bit less prominently, in the ethnomusicology of diaspora—especially, though not exclusively, the African diaspora in the Caribbean—but figures hardly at all in music history as practiced by musicologists, and here I include specifically histories of jazz. Some of his presence is, to be sure...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Powell ; Hunwick and Powell; Toledano ; and Walz and Cuno. 8 In the Upper Egyptian dialect of Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish the term is godiya , rather than kodiya . For more on the figure of the godiya in the context of the Ottoman-African diaspora, see Spyropoulos. Works Cited...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... , 2001 . Hall Stuart . “ Epilogue: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life .” In Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall , edited by Meeks Brian , 269 – 91 . Kingston and Miami : Ian Randle , 2007 . Hall Stuart . “ Racism and Reaction .” In Five...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 129–134.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a meditation on artistic development in the Caribbean and African diaspora that turns explicitly to jazz and Caribbean literature in ways that help illuminate how his thinking with blackness informs his approach to futurity. Jazz provides Hall with an example of thinking about the articulation of structure...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the region on another major global route, the Armenian diaspora and Armenian trading routes stretching from India and China to the Caucasus, Northern Africa, and England (Chaliand and Rageau 80). In the eighteenth century, like Romanians, Armenians in Transylvania unsuccessfully requested recognition...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of admittance of something but “don’t let it out of this room” for the sake of security and continuation of the discussion—created a fissure between the Armenian diaspora and Turkish Armenians once again (with the former more open and the latter concerned about their daily realities). Thus, any consideration...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 April 2012
... was to be expected, of course, in a postcolonial novel addressing the links ofcolo nization, culture, and cultivation, ofplantations and botanical gardens, of 87 ROUNDTA B LE Davis grafting and hybridization, of scientific exploration, travel, and diaspora, oflabeling plants and labeling people. Yet the allusions...
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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 (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
... that "an exclusive focus on the narrativeforms generated in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American Atlantic misrepresents the Afro-diaspora in the Ameri cas and ignores much of the 'archive of slavery'" (p. 137). He suggests that "other types ofnarratives can come to us from outside the Anglo-American long...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and Mesoamericafrom Colonial Times to the Present, ed. Laura Gotkowitz (20n), 57-71; Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Bound Lives:Afticans, Indians, andtheMaking ofRace in ColonialPeru (2012) ; O'Toole, "Fromthe Rivers ofGuinea to the Valleys ofPeru: Becoming a Bran Diaspora within Spanish Slavery;' Social Text 92, 25.3 (Fall...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Federici and Max Weber have argued, is antithetical to the reproductive and productive processes of capitalism.24 Conjure, like other Afro-Atlantic healing and spiritual practices, further challenges linear temporality by figuring Africa not only as the past and possible future home of a diaspora, but also...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
.... Stephanie E. Smallwood, SaltwaterSlavery:A MiddlePassagefromAftica toAmerican Diaspora (2007) , 33. 2. Ibid. 3. See Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction, andForecast, 4th ed. (1983). 4. Saidiya Hartman, "Venus in Two Acts;' SmallAxe 12 no. 2 (2008) : 1 - 14. 5. The TrialofCaptainJohn...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Anthropology 23 , no. 2 ( 2008 ): 191 – 219 . doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00007.x . Sulzbacher Christine . “ Beten—Dienen—Unterhalten Zur Funtionalisierung von Afrikanern und Afrikanerinnen im 19. Jahrhundert in Österreich .” In Von Soliman zu Omofuma. Afrikanische Diaspora im Österreich...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... University Press , 2016 . Smallwood Stephanie . Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from African to American Diaspora . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2007 . Spillers Hortense . “ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” Diacritics 17 , no. 2 ( 1987...
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