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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. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 abolition education liberation David : My Dad bought our house in Berkeley in the late 1970s next to the now...
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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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History Hesitant

Lisa Lowe
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315790
Published: 01 December 2015
... in the British Caribbean . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Kelley Robin D. G. 2003 . Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination . Boston : Beacon . Kitson Peter J. , ed. 1999 . The Abolition Debate. Vol. 2 of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Writings...
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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
... is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. the university education abolition decolonization ecology The concept of “educational undergrowth” points toward an account of educational practices and institutions that attends...
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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
... was captured, the nation received nearly eight hundred thousand illegally enslaved Africans. The trade’s definitive abolition in 1850 encouraged traffickers to adopt increasingly draconian measures. This ship was a prime example: in late 1855, over 450 people, twice as many as considered “minimally humane...
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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
... abolition of slavery, African Americans led the efforts of Reconstruction in the South, attempting to create conditions of equality and freedom. In response, the Southern plantation class joined with property-hungry Northern industrialists for what W. E. B. Du Bois called “the counter-revolution of property...
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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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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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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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Light Reading: Public Utility, Urban Fiction, and Human Rights

Michael D. Rubenstein
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-009
Published: 01 December 2008
..., loss, and struggle that characterizes the novel’s tone and narrative arc, from slavery to abolition to urban migration to the founding of Texaco. Impossible to characterize, for example, abolition as an unblemished joy since its enactment almost...
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Texas-(s)ized Postmodernism; Or, Capitalism without the Dialectic

Jonathan Beller
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 21–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467954
Published: 01 June 2016
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Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar

Neel Ahuja
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210292
Published: 01 March 2011
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Writing into a Void: REPRESENTING SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE NARRATIVE OF COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA

Herman L. Bennett
Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 67–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-012
Published: 01 December 2007
..., an abolition decree, or general emancipation, freedom — not slavery — con- stituted a real possibility and defined black Creole experiences in the seventeenth century. Christian Time and Being After releasing María de Marradón into her mother’s custody...
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In the Clinic: THE MEDICALIZATION OF WELFARE

Sanford F. Schram
Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 81–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-81
Published: 01 March 2000
..., most known for setting time limits and imposing work requirements on the receipt of welfare, as well as for its abolition of the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and its replace- ment with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block...
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