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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 521–538.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading “The Fire Next Time” (1963) and “No Name in the Street” (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)logic of anti-Blackness that necessitates racist violence as a structural component of its practice...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and other forms of racial impersonation performed during these festivities are globally migrating manifestations of anti-Blackness. It argues that in order to achieve visual resonance, performers rely on taken-for-granted propositions about how Blackness works in Colombian society and that in the absence...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 207–231.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of slavery and anti‐Blackness have not yet been acknowledged, much less repaired, within or beyond the US legal system. 31. Decision at 26. 32. Decision at 14. 33. A similar extrajudicial point occurs in Dobbs v. Jackson (2022), in which the conservative, formalist court gestures toward...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 409–418.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the categories of Man but, relatedly, the inextricable relation between anti-Blackness and the violence of the law. In this issue, Jesse Goldberg thinks alongside James Baldwin to further inquire into the racial politics of the law, specifically anti-Blackness as the very condition of possibility of American law...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to illuminate a series of related pleasures and challenges that viral exposure might supply for the staging, the matter-ing of Black life as social death. In the remainder of this essay, I ask that we recognize BLM as having accomplished something in addition to its manifest revelations of systemic anti-Black...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the figure of the ‘foreigner’ now comes to represent those who seem to be ‘darker skinned’ ” (Naicker 2016 : 49). This is a layered association that is read through skin as surface, yet mobilizes the term migrant to reproduce a violent anti-Blackness associated with African countries beyond South Africa...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
Published: 01 September 2021
... not racialized as Black.” 11. Please do not misconstrue this as a move analogous to “we're all in this together,” or “all lives matter,” or “everyone is suffering.” My parents are an example of white lives preserved against a backdrop of anti-Blackness. As in the first installment of “American Elegy...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 197–214.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... One is constantly negotiating pity and microaggressions. What are the specifics of anti-Black racism, and how is it working in relation to microaggressions here? One recognizes that the risk is marginalization at the same time that one is being asked to do this work (see also Ahmed 2012) . One wants...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that impact freedom colony landscapes, sense of place, and sovereignty. Collaboration with descendant communities grew from a commitment to defining and documenting the living history of free Black places created while surrounded by anti-Black violence. As an evolving social justice and research...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
...” (Antwiwaa 2020 ). While both the government and activists expressed solidarity with Floyd, it was the latter that paid attention to the situated legacies of police and military violence on Ghanaian lives, and to social class. For many less-privileged Ghanaians, the stakes of anti-black violence were...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 509–526.
Published: 01 September 2018
... [they] come from” (Spain) because the Netherlands is already saturated with Black Petes (“It is too bad but full means full”). By appropriating language commonly used in Dutch anti-immigrant discourse, the scene suggests that it is in fact the antiracist activists who are the xenophobes, seeking to expel...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Sautman Barry . 1994 . “ Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China .” The China Quarterly 138 : 413 – 37 . Sautman Barry , and Hairong Yan . 2016 . “ The Discourse...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.
Published: 01 May 1994
... as a twisted corollary to the image of the
beating of Rodney King. If white America1' was repulsed by the image of the
anti-black violence of the King beating, it could by contrast react positively,
immediately, and with ethical purity when...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... the world. Freedom's Journal (est. 1827), for example, was a four-page, four-column journal of current events dually focused on domestic and international affairs. It supported critical engagement with issues affecting African Americans. It worked to counter anti-Black views prevalent in white press...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 255–285.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in the German state.” But he adds that by 1936, because of the relentless anti-Semitic propaganda, the prejudice against Jews had seemed to become more instinctive but was not yet completely so. Though, theoretically, blacks would be just as much targeted as Jews by Nazi racist beliefs, Du Bois praised...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 645–663.
Published: 01 September 2019
... . “ ‘Blood in Reasoning’: State Violence, Contested Territories, and Black Criminal Agency in Urban Brazil .” Journal of Latin American Studies 48 , no. 1 : 61 – 87 . Alves Jaime Amparo . 2018 . The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil . Minneapolis : University...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
... to visualize the Black women and girls so often erased from contemporary discussions of anti-Black violence ( AAPF 2018 ; Cox 2015 ; Smith 2016) . Devonte Hart is missing and presumed dead. On or around March 26, 2018, Jennifer Hart, white transracial adoptive mother of Devonte and his five siblings—Markis...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2019
... that to be what Mayanthi Fernando calls “Muslim French” is an impossibility. Whatever ire he undoubtedly has for the participants of the anti-LGBTIQ Manif pour tous , 12 Tonneau would be hard-pressed to say that as Christians they were not also French. When applying a black rather than white analytics...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Rinaldo Walcott (2017: 1) asserts that “diversity as an idea has reached its logical end” because of its inability to address race and, more specifically, anti-blackness. Diversity in its contemporary use is very much steeped in whiteness and cannot address the specific type of work needed...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., then, to Black feminist theories of political economy, I attend to constructions of gender, race, and class in and through the present housing crisis, including within anti-capitalist activist movements. How do we understand Moms for Housing's advocacy for a politics organized around Black motherhood in relation...
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