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... science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through durative and recursive structures. Providing the extractive and appropriative logics underlying racial capitalism, dispossession is both...

..., and insufficiently absorptive, contagions to the potential growth of the population. In the dominant Western racial imaginary, Blackness occupies the opposite pole of whiteness and is characterized by a quality of stolidity that at best can be pressed into a new shape, but never can self-transform. Racist thought...

... context of image use in adoption. The late 1990s saw a tremendous increase in numbers of adoptions into the United States. According to U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service statistics on immigrant visas issued to orphans, international adoptions in the United States tripled between 1992, when...

... this phenomenon.3 Ever since the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) issued a position paper in 1972 advocating the adoption of black children only by black families, there has been a contentious and long-standing debate concerning the politics of race in black/white transracial adoption...

... . Essai sur le don. In Sociologie et anthropologie , edited by Marcel Mauss. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Meznar, Joan. 1994 . Orphans and the transition from slave to free labor in north-east Brazil: The case of Campina Grande,1850-1888. Journal of Social History 27 : 499 -516...

... to the United States, while the rest were sent to Europe.2 Like the adoption of European and Japanese orphaned children in the 1940s in the aftermath of World War II, the adoption of Korean children began as a humanitarian gesture in response...

...— reported that they were either satisfied or very satisfied with their rela- tionship with their adoptive children.)1 Finding these children so similar in so many dimensions raises a question: why did Americans rush to Roma- nia in 1991 (2,594 State Department visas were issued for Romanian “orphans...

... the views of other “material witnesses” that went unmemorialized, the scribblings in the margins, the epic insurrectionist stirrings of a city whose black and Latino populations were erased from the offi cial history of its 1781 founding...

... by sealing records (Carp 1998). In the 1950s, when Oregonians Harry and Bertha Holt launched adoption from South Korea as a Christian “rescue” mission for mixed-race orphans fathered by American soldiers, it seems that little thought was given...

... colonial histories, and even narrating Blackness as surplus in the context of neoliberalizing urban US space. 7 In addition, global Model Minority discourse also tends to emphasize a cosmopolitan Asian diasporic sensibility that can reconsolidate settler colonial erasures. 8 In this essay, I build...

... and Rathnavel’s orphaned daughter. Siruthai is produced by Karthi’s cousins. A faithful remake of a Telugu hit, the film is chosen deliberately for its mass appeal. Karthi is quite candid. “This kind of mass commercial film,” he says, “when an actor can pull it off, it gives you another jump in the market...

... anchoring identities in distinguishable geographic locations. Tonight, I’m your sailor, Chicago, a sea-­orphaned one who will drown you in my saltern legs. I feel old in New Town, new in Old Town, down in Uptown...

..., accompanied by an online playlist, examines how folk music here is shaped by narrow associations with whiteness and nationalism and how this is being opened with contemporary debates about Englishness, racism, and music. This article argues that there are many examples of Black folk in English folk, including...

...: it is the reinscription of the abandoned, marginal individual, of he who is expulsed from all forms of social inclusion (the narrator, it should be remembered, is the unemployed, the ex-­convict, the orphan, the nameless), within a “place” whose only requirement is his total availability. He exists in a regime...

... of the mystical black man.19 Another title indicates that his white partner, John, is the show’s “case worker,” a designation that aligns him with the governmental field of social welfare (although no accredita- tion or state affiliation is given). The premise of the show is that they will travel...

... in the illegal trade would have its enslaved captives liberated. This was a misleading nomenclature, however, as Africanos livres , although translatable as “free” or “liberated Africans,” became wards of the state, akin to children who were incapable of managing their own affairs. The Judge of Orphans who...

...Shameem Black Since their emergence as a novel form of justice, truth commissions have magnetically drawn writers into their orbit. This essay explores one literary response that seems both logical and provocative: the thriller's shadowy world of conspiracy theories, cover-ups, and coups...

... evolutionary transformations. As Schuller demonstrates, impressibility theory had led to the promotion of social technologies — such as the “orphan trains” that carried lower-class immigrant youth from New York City to labor in rural areas — as methods not only of social discipline but also of actual...

... Darkness , 75 . 29 Quoted in Miranda, “Q&A: Kara Walker” . 28 Musser, “Queering Sugar,” 162 . 27 English, How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness , 88 . 26 Shaw, Seeing the Unspeakable , 133 . 25 “I really do want to understand how a modern black woman might...

... conjunc- tures of European and African conceptions of civil society Africans have forged a world that defies civility.6 During the apartheid era, Africans (and blacks more broadly) sought to render the state ungovernable — they chal- lenged the oppressive policies and processes of subjectification...