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...Suraj Yengde Abstract This article theorizes the gravitas of historical solidarity through a budding Dalit-Black archive. It looks at intersections of race and caste projects within the African American public sphere through an anchoring lens of concern for Dalits in India. The Black universalist...

... with such a project. Suraj Yengde's “Dalit in Black America: Race, Caste, and the Making of Dalit-Black Archives” forges twenty-first-century solidarities by drawing on traces of possibilities in the past. Yengde looks to the US Black press in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Within the Black public sphere...

... presence of the “disadvantaged” in otherwise majoritarian “White” or upper-class/high-caste institutions. How, then, we asked, does diversity sustain the status quo, and how does it transform it? To what extent is it also under threat? How should one read recent student movements to change...

... in Social Transformation (Delhi: Thomson, 1976); and Nandu Ram, The Mobile Scheduled Castes: Rise of a New Middle Class (Delhi: Hindustan, 1988). 3. It is necessary to stress that the “educated, professional middle class” position...

... except through the grid provided by discourses of racial difference (the question of “the opposite race cultural/ethnic difference (the supposed cultural attributes of the “Indian” woman as opposed to the “African and caste-class or “nation” (low nation and high nation are terms I have heard used...

... curator Margaret Shaw in 1959–60, which placed casts of race, “painted in realistic detail” into a habitat display of hunter-gatherer culture, c.1800, based on a nineteenth-century artwork by Samuel Daniell. This exhibit, said to be SAM’s “number one drawcard,” had been displayed for over forty years from...

... “a caste system, but without the religious basis that incorporates caste in social life in India” (306). Unlike the settler-colonies of the new world, whose “mixed populations have at least a common tradition of western culture” and were thus examples of a “society with plural features, but not a plural...

... as the making of suspect and unassimilable minorities in the new nation-states that emerged from the war. Two types of minorities emerged as targets for new national majorities in the wake of the Great War. One was defined by class, especially in the Soviet Union, and the other by ethnicity, whether of race...

... in the Global Cultural Economy.” Public Culture 2 ( 2 ): 1 -24. Balibar , E. 1991 . “The Nation Form: History and Ideology.” Pages 86–106 in E. Balibar and I. Wallerstein, eds. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities . London and New York: Verso. Berlant , L. 1991 . The Anatomy...

... a historical moment that was declared to be the dawn of a “Negro Renaissance” and the “nadir of race relations” at once ( Logan 1997 ; Warren 2012 ). The lynching of black people was at an all-time high and segregation was endorsed by the nation’s highest court. Yet Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar...

... myriad forms: politics, economics, language, religion, ethnicity, class and caste. These differences may complicate but do not, however, halt the process of draw- ing more generalised conclusions about this phenomenon; indeed, the globalised...

... and Candace Vogler o one is ever more than temporarily able-bodied. This fact frightens those of NNus who half-imagine ourselves as minds in a material context, who have learned to resent the publicness of race- or sex- or otherwise-marked bodies...

... looks defied racial categorisation. Often the product of mixed marriages, Pan-Asians came to embody an idealised blend of Malaysian looks. 'The industry made a conscious move to a 'neutral' race, recalls Khairudin Rahim, general manager of ad agency Lintas Kuala Lumpur. "in answer...

.... Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste . New York: Fordham University Press. Gura, Philip F. 2013. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hertzman, Marc A. 2013. Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil...

...Radhika Viyas Mongia Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport Radhika Viyas Mongia In a sense, every modern nation is a product...

... power in Brazilian society more broadly, cannot be understood without considering who has the authority to define and to punish acts of sexual violence. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Brazil prison race rape sexual assault A six-year-old girl came home from a neighbor’s...

... that they automatically generate political positions at the same time that he casts categories created by racism as the experiential basis for cosmopolitan consciousness. Genealogies of Race, Cultural Relativism, and Cosmopolitanism If we were to assess Du Bois’s and Boas’s projects by how much their cosmo...

... not exist. And when we direct attention to the process by which human beings in this sense were created, we come up also against the ways in which ”humanism” is constantly under threat, along the lines of gender, race, class, caste and so...

... and 11. Jean-­François Bayart, “Postcolonial Studies: A Political Invention of Tradition?” in this issue, 59. 12. Ann Laura Stoler, “Colonial Aphasia: Race and Disabled Histories in France,” in this issue, 133. 13...

...: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria (2002). Grovogui, Siba N'Zatioula. 1996 . Sovereigns, quasi sovereigns, and Africans: Race and self-determination in international law . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Guyer, Jane I. 1996 . Traditions of invention...