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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the present day. It centers the histories and afterlives of hereditary racial slavery and the radical contestations and refusals of its logics. Overall, it argues that contemporary racial capitalism is always already reproductive. Reproductive labor and the experiences of conception, gestation, parturition...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The second part proposes an alternative: what if we take the absence of memorialization not as a lack demanding intervention but as a conceptual insight? Finally, this essay clarifies the implications of this refusal to identify the Global South as a zone of exceptional abjection—of human lives as well...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the “welfare queen” and reveals its underlying logic: it marks Black and impoverished people’s resistance, and the refusal to birth babies and raise children who are docile participants in the kind of labor force sought by capital. The “welfare queen,” generalized to the archipelago as a whole, marks rebellion...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... ways to think about the history of racial capitalism, (re)productive dispossession, and the possibility of its refusal. The article concludes by considering how Spillers’s complex insights about the process of ungendering might yet be mobilized to secure truly substantive forms of reproductive justice...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 October 2023
... and prestigious higher education institutions of the present. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 settler colonialism universities sovereignty acknowledgment refusal In August 2020, the president of the College of William & Mary approved the institution’s...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of colonial temporality. The existential challenge of the pandemic in Palestine revealed that a struggle for survival mixed with the hope of refusal can help us find a way outside of settler time. The nation-state need not define our peoplehood, and colonial temporality need not define our stories. Those...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the subtitle, "A Story of Wall Street; when originally published in 1853, Gersen's article proposes that the cadaverous young man who refuses, in the course of Melville's tale, either to continue his work as a copyist for a Wall Street lawyer involved with mortgages or to vacate the History ofthe...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and usurpations of the non-Dalit sphere, it is a caretaker of its constituents. In life and in death, Dalit collectivities have become sanctuaries of survival. Dalit histories of collective care and organizing teach us strategies of survival, refusal, and sustenance. That we survive in the face of constant...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the temporalities of crises that have refused to end. Now, more than ever, these are the geohistories we must traverse. Hana Sleiman draws, too, on a century of dispossession from another nearby shore, in Lebanon, a place that has in the past two years sustained one catastrophe after another. Palestinian...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
... surprising. “Women,” she writes, has always been a “volatile category” (2). “[B]oth a concentration and refusal of the identity of ‘women’ are essential to feminism” (1). “Am I That Name?” proposes that we pay attention to the history of feminism’s foundational category and how it has over time been both...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... disciplinary boundaries in the settler university. Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (1999) eschews representation of Indigenous resistance in an attempt to refuse the “ethnographic ventriloquism” he reads as inevitable to his position within the Australian academy (213...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., sounding theircomplaint-all ofwhichoccurredbelow decks. In the endeavor to witness what others had refused, and to find ordinary words capable of reaching twogirls, I tried to read andlistenfor more than thegenericdescrip­ tions ofthe legal file: to enact a poetics ofthe document-a way oftranspos­ ing...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., the state must also renounce Christianity.Citizenship required a prior refusal of the particularistic ob­ ligations religion imposed; emancipation from particular obligation was a prerequisite for admission to the universalist community of the state.3 In either definition, to be emancipated is to get out...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
... back to animate Hall’s account in it of “an angry but splendid exchange of fire” (Hall, Familiar Stranger 58) on the occasion of a young Catherine’s refusal to countenance his mother’s grande dame pronouncement on the difficulties of finding reliable household help in the presence of the people...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to Spain in the secret Treaty of Tordesillas. Between 1762 and 1771, the transition from French to Spanish control threw the francophone colonial elite into chaos. They refused to work with the first Spanish governor, Don Antonio de Ulloa, causing him to retreat from the Gulf Coast to Spanish Cuba...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., Mr. Sands (Samuel Tredwell Sawyer), garnering a modicum of protection from Flint by virtue of Sands’s interposition. Yet Flint continues hounding Jacobs, jeopardizing her children’s safety so long as she refuses him. Intuiting that the danger to her children (Joseph and Louisa Jacobs ) will diminish...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Helene found herselfconfronted with amorous attention.After an instance in which Helene was offered a rose from a male admirer whom she saw regularly on her daily tramway ride, Leopold communicated his "desire that [she] refuse henceforth all the flowers" that this suitor might offer her.55 Leopold's...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... Historikerstreit [historians' battle]; Pierre Nora's defense of the French refusal to publish a translation ofEric Hobsbawm's TheAge ofExtremes in the 1990s; and the broader political context of the Prague Declaration. The current upsurge in East European commemorations for the victims of communism originates from...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of historicist scholarship" (p. 202). However, Morgan continues, "By refusing the disconnect between data and abjection we might produce a political economy ofthe Middle Passage that will support social historical studies of the Black Atlantic in new and more complicated ways" (p. 203). The essays collected here...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2011
...-superannuated age offifty-nine and had broken withFreud several years prior). Here Meynert anointsFreud 224 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT as a privileged successor, yet is"by no means kindly disposed" toward him. Freud refuses the anointment, noting almost as an afterthought his contempt for Meynert's chosen fields...