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Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Brian Connolly
History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.1.1.0031
Published: 01 April 2011
... the story of Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart Simpson, a proud mem­ ber of a seemingly storied French lineage who had come to America with his father and was adopted, as an adult, by a distant American relative (Simpson) in order to receive an inheritance. Plagued with poor vision, which he refuses to correct...
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Seizing the Alterity of Futures: Toward a Philosophy of History across Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism

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Lou Cornum
History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10630116
Published: 01 October 2023
... decolonial theorist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson also uses this word-concept biskaabiiyang, written as biiskabiyang in her work. Though not a sf writer nor included in the volumes discussed at length here, Simpson is an Indigenous scholar associated with Indigenous futurity, particularly in her recent work...
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“The Blackness of Darkness”: Mammoth Cave and the Racialization of the Underground

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Lara Langer Cohen
History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-8772436
Published: 01 April 2021
... this underground: for example, in militant abolitionist and songwriter Joshua McCarter Simpson’s ballads depicting the Underground Railroad as an actual train running beneath the earth (over 150 years before Colson Whitehead made this the central conceit of his novel Underground Railroad ); in Frederick...
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History in an Unfamiliar Key: Propagandhi, Punk Rock, and the Uses of History

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Joseph D. Bryan
History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-11247009
Published: 01 October 2024
.... and Fisher Brian , 129 – 44 . London : Routledge , 2016 . Simpson Audra . Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Sinclair John . “ Liner Notes to MC5’s Kick Out the Jams! ” In White Riot: Punk Rock...
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Crossing Black Waters: Indian Ocean Studies, Third Worldism, and the Ontological Turn

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Micheal A. Rumore
History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-9753164
Published: 01 October 2022
... studies as a whole (at least within literary studies), this designation is by no means uncontested (see Desai ; Simpson and Kresse). In particular, scholars have criticized how primarily Indian and Arab traders most often figure as the “subjects” of the field, with the African continent consequently...
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Locked Up in Lockdown: Patronage in a Time of Pandemic in the Indian Ocean

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Nidhi Mahajan
History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10253314
Published: 01 April 2023
... as patrons, while sailors seek prestige and hope to become “big men” within their class ( Simpson ), continuously pursuing new, more generous patrons. While this was the case even before the COVID-19 outbreak, Yusuf creatively renegotiated the terms of his captivity by using methods that built upon his prior...
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Educational Pasts, Enduring Colonial Presents: Indigenous Student Conscripts and the Foundation of the US University

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Abigail Boggs
History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10630105
Published: 01 October 2023
... interest, a more substantive engagement with these histories must contend with the fact that most such projects ended largely due to Indigenous peoples’ active and pronounced refusal to participate ( Simpson ). The attempts at incorporation and assimilation at William & Mary exemplify key aspects...
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The History of the Subject and the Subject of History

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David L. Eng
History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-9547221
Published: 01 April 2022
... for leading the Japanese people and the emperor himself astray. Hirohito was characterized as a victim of circumstance, a naïve and innocent ruler manipulated by a cadre of fanatical military leaders led by General Hideki Tōjō. In short, as Yuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack, and Gerry Simpson observe, like...
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Settler Colonial Studies and/as the Transnational Western: Resistance and Representation in Academic Discourse and Cultural Production

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Alex Trimble Young
History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-8772463
Published: 01 April 2021
... and withholding: such a tension marks Sen’s carefully selective representation of Jay’s resistance, and his withholding of subaltern Indigenous knowledge, in Goldstone (10). Settler Australian scholar Mike Griffiths, in a gloss of Indigenous theorists of refusal, ranging from Audra Simpson to Aileen Moreton...
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