...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 Critique, I attempted to Roderick A. advance a...

...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” It’s the Thought That Counts On 20...

... and desire, between reason and affect, between the literal as variegated, and the figurative, between philosophy and literature. A particularly exciting recent book addresses this tension, Roderick striated, Ferguson’s Aberrations...

... 2007 Contents The Ends of War Special Issue Editor Patrick Deer Introduction: The Ends of War and the Limits of War Culture  Patrick Deer 1 War, by All Means  Randy Martin 13 Rape: A Weapon of War  Jean Franco 23 The Gift of Freedom  Kennan Ferguson 39 Global...

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

... 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 both queer of color and...

... 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 Asylum in the Context of Family Rights Chandan Reddy 101...

... 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...

... 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, while cre- ating...

... 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 Studies and the Histo- ries of Sexuality” that...

...: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, the theorist Roderick Ferguson argues that the “sexual,” as the expression of “racially gendered relations,” emerges in the United States in the conflict between capital and the...

... Challenging 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...

..., 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...

... show, in the years encompassing the passage of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments in 1865 and 1868, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, which sanctioned the pernicious “separate but equal” logic of the Jim Crow era, and finally the passage of the Food and Drug Act in 1906, whiteness seems...

...-85-13_Halberstam.indd 219 10/19/05 2:34:39 PM We cannot identities. New books by Rod Ferguson, Robert Reid-Pharr, Juana Rodri- guez, Licia Fiol-Matta, and David Eng immediately come to mind, and...

... the Indo-Pak border and the nationalisms it precipitates, rupturing what Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson call the “isomorphism of space, place and culture” that national maps promote.44 Indeed, one searing critique of Pakistani and Indian...

... politically engaged knowledge prac- tices intend to dismantle. My thinking along these lines is informed by Roderick Ferguson’s theorization of the ways in which the academy is an administrative machine that is really rather stunningly capable of, as he puts it, “managing minority difference.”8...

.... neoimperial foreign policy, like historian Niall Ferguson, enjoin America Introduction #24; to emulate, only with greater fiscal responsibility. This is the long history of colonial violence...

... of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Cultures of Immigrant Labor . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Hong Grace Kyungwon Ferguson Roderick , eds. 2011 . Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization . Durham, NC : Duke...