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...Nicholas Mirzoeff Based on a full reading of the transcript of the grand jury hearings concerning the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on 9 August 2014, this article uses the transcript as an archive to demonstrate how the informal systems of racial hierarchy in the United States...

..., to use Roderick A. Ferguson’s coinage, and places Sapphire's 1996 novel Push in conversation with Jesmyn Ward's 2011 novel Salvage the Bones . Both novels depict young Black mothers grappling with the disabling context of public infrastructural abandonment, in which the basic support systems...

...Roderick A. Ferguson Duke University Press 2005 Of Our Normative Strivings AFRIC AN A MERIC AN STUDIES AND THE HISTORIES OF SE XUALIT Y In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color...

...Kennan Ferguson Duke University Press 2007 The Gift of Freedom The only gift is a portion of thyself. Kennan Ferguson Thou must bleed for me.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Gifts...

... striated, Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. It is a contradictory. serious and sure attempt to bring a Marxist inheritance into conversation with modes of pathologizing African American life, particularly...

...” as national, communal, or domestic space outside a logic of blood, purity, authenticity, and patrilineal descent. The notion of a queer diaspora resonates with Roderick Ferguson’s framing of a “queer of color critique.” While...

...  Jean Franco 23 The Gift of Freedom  Kennan Ferguson 39 Global Society Must Be Defended: Biopolitics without Boundaries  Leerom Medovoi 53 The Fragile Ends of War: Forging the United States–Mexico Border and Borderlands Consciousness  Gilberto Rosas 81 The War Drive: Image Files...

..., and global consequence. Roderick A. Ferguson observes in his contribution to this special issue, gender, class, “Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histo- ries of Sexuality” that while queer studies “has had the most...

.... All of the contributors of this issue are affiliated with what Roderick Ferguson calls the interdisciplines of minority difference, or what the right wing has recently called “grievance studies.” 26 We are interested in asking what possibilities exist for (re)thinking study from the perspectives...

...- cussion of neoliberal political economies of the family to pursue a “queer of color” critique of his petition for asylum. In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, the theorist Roderick Ferguson argues...

... promote what the social theorist Roderick Ferguson has called “ideologies of discreteness,”9 or practices that seek to demarcate and police racial, ethnic, class, and sexual spaces and boundaries, while cre- ating physical...

... with the Normative: Queer Theory and Black History Amy Villarejo 69 Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality Roderick A. Ferguson 85 Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: Reviewing the Case for Homosexual...

...- tish exposition of civil society as a realm of solidarity and freedom came from Smith’s close contemporary, Adam Ferguson, whose Essay on Civil Society 8 can lay reasonable claim to have invented the whole concept. Ferguson’s ideas were influential on G. W. F...

... of queer studies that often reduce heterogeneity into singularities and universals as part of disciplinarity. “This material specificity,” Roderick A. Ferguson observes, “produces a tension between theorizations of racialized sexuality and efforts to capture those theorizations within universalist...

... Freidman, “‘Between Absorption and Extinction.’” 39 Esposito, Immunitas ; Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” ; Mbembe, On the Postcolony . 38 Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896 , majority opinion. See esp. Harris, “Whiteness as Property” ; and Sundquist, “Mark Twain and Homer Plessy...

... and form. To study the afterlives of sexology in both these senses, we turn to what Roderick A. Ferguson has called “pedagogies of minority difference” whose collective antecedent is sexology, even as their more proximate provenance is the Cold War. 9 We thus locate the coordinates of this special issue...

... feminist theories of intersectionality, Puar has argued that there is no single intersection of identities that can produce a privileged point of view on the social.13 Even within the context of a defense of intersectionality, Roderick Ferguson has also...

..., as Roderick Ferguson argues, the abjection or marginalization of difference is supplemented by its affirmation. 5 That is, if we define precarity as the condition created by capital’s propensity to invest in and withdraw from any particular locale at any time, not simply literally through fiscal investment...

... governmentalities, James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta argue that, by focusing on the ways in which states are spatialized, an analysis of the legitimacy of the state gives way to understanding the particular practices, ideologies, and experiences that shape such legitimacy. They introduce the term vertical...

... , edited by Hong Grace and Ferguson Roderick , 25 – 52 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Chun Wendy Hui Kyong . Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2008 . Conley Tara L. “ Decoding Black...