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Due Time: Meditations on Abolition at the Site of the University

David A. Maldonado, Erica R. Meiners
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 69–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750112
Published: 01 March 2021
...-industrial complex, this essay makes visible emergent lines and arrangements of power and resistance that inhibit and build abolition. 10. Richie, Arrested Justice . 11. See for example, Harkins and Meiners, “Teaching Publics in the American Penalscape,” for more on how the university...
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Necrospeculation: Postemancipation Finance and Black Redress

Kris Manjapra
Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7370979
Published: 01 June 2019
...Kris Manjapra In 2015 the British government finally finished paying off the Slavery Abolition Act loan. For 180 years it had serviced debt created by the massive public borrowing of 1835, which was used to compensate British slave owners for the loss of their “slave property” during emancipation...
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Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival

Dean Spade
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971139
Published: 01 March 2020
..., mobilize large numbers of people to participate in movements actively rather than solely participating online or through voting, and offer spaces to practice new social relations. The article looks at examples from efforts for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, disaster relief, and other...
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Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism: An Interview with David N. Pellow

Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495174
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention. References Breceher Jeremy . Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual . Oakland, CA : PM , 2017 . Brecher Jeremy . Climate Insurgency...
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History Hesitant

Lisa Lowe
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315790
Published: 01 December 2015
...-3315790  © 2016 Duke University Press 8 5 tradiction, to Saidiya Hartman’s critique in Scenes of Subjection (1997), that abolition and political emancipation were inadequate to repair the catastrophes of nineteenth-century slavery: the violence...
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The University and the Undercommons: SEVEN THESES

Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 101–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-101
Published: 01 June 2004
.... Perhaps there is another relation between the University and the Prison—beyond simple opposi- tion or family resemblance—that the Undercommons reserves as the object and inhabitation of another abolitionism. The University and the Undercommons 113...
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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom

Edlie L. Wong
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315802
Published: 01 December 2015
... with Chinese contract or indentured labor, popularly referred to as coolieism, became a particular fascination for American travelers, especially after the legal abolition of slavery on US soil.1 These travelers offered some of the most detailed firsthand accounts of coolieism, and their narratives...
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Recovering Fugitive Freedoms

Thulani Davis
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315910
Published: 01 December 2015
... had a fire-arm. —Rev. John T. Costin, Macon, Georgia, 25 July 1867 I look at black political formations after abolition across nine of the former Confederate states in my project “Fugitive Freedoms: A Race, Politics and Black...
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Introduction: Dehumanist Education and the Colonial University

Nathan Snaza, Julietta Singh
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750064
Published: 01 March 2021
... , Mitchell Nick , and Schwartz-Weinstein Zach . “ Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation .” Abolition Journal , August 28 , 2019 . abolitionjournal.org/abolitionist-university-studies-an-invitation/ . Boggs Abigail , and Mitchell Nick . “ Critical University Studies...
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In the Trail of the Ship: Narrating the Archives of Illegal Slavery

Yuko Miki
Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7286276
Published: 01 March 2019
... of the Archives . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2013 . Ferreira Roquinaldo . The Costs of Suppression: Central Africa in the Age of Abolition (ca. 1800–ca. 1880) . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , forthcoming . Figueiredo Luciano . Marcas de escravos: Listas de...
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Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains

Joanne Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Sandy Grande, Julia Bernal ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408070
Published: 01 December 2021
... protests that decried anti-Black police brutality, affirmed that Black lives matter, and called for defunding police, if not complete police abolition. And yet, nowhere in Governor Anoatubby's statement did he acknowledge the persistent, militarized, and white supremacist violence targeting Black lives...
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Stained University: Reckoning with Duke's Nexus of Higher Education and Tobacco Capitalism

Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Eli Meyerhoff
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750124
Published: 01 March 2021
...: An Invitation .” Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics , August 28 , 2019 . abolitionjournal.org/abolitionist-university-studies-an-invitation/ . Boggs Abigail , and Mitchell Nick . “ Critical University Studies and the Crisis Consensus .” Feminist Studies 44 , no. 2 ( 2018...
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Logistics Genealogies: A Dialogue with Stefano Harney

Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti
Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917802
Published: 01 September 2018
..., that abolition as Jared Sexton rightly says is yet to come. And we might add that this abolition requires the abolishment of logistics which in its flows created a people without standing anywhere. We act in abolition not for a ground to stand on but for groundations beyond standing. Modern logistics, with its...
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Introduction: Diaspora and the Localities of Race

Minkah Makalani
Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-014
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Paul Lovejoy, “The African Diaspora: Revisionist Interpretations of Eth- nicity, Culture, and Religion under Slavery,” Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation 11 (1997): 1 – 23; Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D. G. Kelley, “Unfinished Migrations...
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Squatters, Space, and Belonging in the Underdeveloped City

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-4_81-17
Published: 01 December 2004
... period. A bloody race riot in Saint-Pierre gains European core an offi cial decree of emancipation, yet unequal property relations remain undisturbed by abolition. of the city. Marie-Sophie’s narrative of her father’s life emphasizes the continuity...
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2020: Momenta Vita

Jayna Brown, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408042
Published: 01 December 2021
... to carceral formations of all kinds, the relentless persecutions and killings and the impunity that make them possible; they call for justice not just repair; they speak of abolition, the return of stolen lands, food and health care for all; they build forms of mutual aid and creative kinship, claim new...
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Blacklist Redux: W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE PRICE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Bill V. Mullen
Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 85–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-018
Published: 01 March 2007
... training in modern industry, and for our national leaders, self-assertion through a higher training in life and thought and power, then we can move toward the goal. What is that goal? It is at present one great Ideal: the abolition of the color line; the treatment of all men according...
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Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country?

Deborah A. Thomas
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771035
Published: 01 September 2022
... and trespassing laws that have been used by police since the abolition of slavery as tools for social control and spatial exclusion. In challenging the silences that undergird public respectability, these groups are unsettling one pillar on which contemporary understandings of nationalist sovereignty stand...
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The Early Portuguese Slave Ship and the Infrastructure of Racial Capitalism

Anna More
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013290
Published: 01 December 2022
... the aftereffects, continuities, and transformations of these conditions. Long after the formal abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and slave regimes, these continuities are summarized by Eric Garner's simple and chilling phrase “I can't breathe” and the video of George Floyd, both suffocated by agents...
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We, the Multitude

Sylvère Lotringer
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-1
Published: 01 March 2005
... nonsocialist demands (refusal of work, abolition of the state) with a proletarian revolution. (“A lot of people,” he wryly notes, “were blathering on about revolution8 Autonomia was a defeated revolution, to which the post-Fordist paradigm...
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