...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...

...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...

... recent book addresses this tension, Roderick 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...

...  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...

... Foster Andrew Ross James McBean Carl Freedman Bob Stone Sohnya Sayres Colin Greer Margie Ferguson Timothy Simone Wendy Graham Blaine McBurney...

... 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...

... 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...

... in Smith, whose Theory of Moral Sentiments7 is at least as significant a work as The Wealth of Nations. But the clearest Scot- tish exposition of civil society as a realm of solidarity and freedom came from Smith’s close contemporary, Adam Ferguson, whose Essay on...

... by which institutions 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...

...- 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...

... being reconstituted as a type of reactionary (identity) politics of national critique of race, and global consequence. Roderick A. Ferguson observes in his contribution to this special issue, gender, class, “Of Our Normative Strivings: African American...

... 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 of Black, Brown, Indigenous, feminist, queer, decolonial, and ecological...

... South Korea, Taiwan, and especially Singapore as Model Minorities of the new world order. 4 This scholarship highlights that, in many ways, Asian racialization is perhaps the paradigmatic example of the post–World War II era shift in racial representation, in which, as Roderick Ferguson argues, the...

... 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...

... concretized in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision plays itself out in the formal qualities of the pamphlet: the advertising on the left side and the story on the right seem on first glance to be antithetical, but their juxtaposition symbolically charges the differences between them. The narrative forms...

... minority difference, see Ferguson, Reorder of Things . 2 For a recent provocation regarding the “illiberal humanities,” see Chuh, Difference Aesthetics Makes . 3 Departments, programs, and consortia so named are proliferating at such institutions as New York University, Yale, Tufts...

... in which the conduct of the population is governed through institutions, discourses, norms, identities, etc.), Ferguson and Gupta suggest that with neoliberalism “the logic of the market has been extended to the operation of state functions, so that even the traditionally core institutions of...

... specificities for theorizing sexuality, women of color feminism resists the institutionalizations 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...

... acknowledging their disturbing familiarity. Numerous analyses contextualize Bland's case within the latest coverage of state sanctioned anti-Black violence, a history of the recent past conjured by names of people and places such as Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, Walter Scott, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and others...