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Black Soil

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Kimberly Bain
Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174940
Published: 01 March 2023
...Kimberly Bain Abstract This article turns to the minor Black matter of soil to map a provisional theory of Black alchemy. Black alchemy names an erotic and ethical orientation toward the Dead and dead matter. Sifting the metonymic, metaphysical, and material properties between (Black fleshly...
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Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads

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Jessica Marie Johnson
Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658
Published: 01 December 2018
... to enumerate and digitize early modern black diasporic life. The article engages those critiques in light of black diasporic communities’ battles for justice and redress and the forms these have taken online, such as Afrofuturism, eBlack Studies, and Digital Alchemy. It argues that, while digitizing the study...
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Testifying to Rightlessness: Haitian Refugees Speaking from Guantánamo

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A. Naomi Paik
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-003
Published: 01 September 2010
... Stories,” in Law’s Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law, ed. Peter Brooks and Paul D. Gewirtz (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 164. 29. Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), 9; emphasis in original...
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Slow Loss: Black Feminism and Endurance

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Jennifer C. Nash
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631103
Published: 01 June 2022
... . “ Introduction: Autotheory Theory .” Arizona Quarterly 76 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 1 – 14 . Wilderson Frank III . Afropessimism . New York : W. W. Norton , 2021 . Williams Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1991 . Woubshet...
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Remains to Be Seen: Black Feminist Art and US Militarism in Asia

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Rachel Jane Carroll
Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174968
Published: 01 March 2023
... Alchemy of Debt” ). 50. Franklin, “Racial Capitalism,” 74 . 51. Franklin, “Racial Capitalism,” 74 . 52. La Berge, Wages against Artwork . 53. Handley, Nylon , 35 . 54. Glickman, “ ‘Make Lisle the Style,’ ” 580 . 55. On the American racialization of Japan...
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Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA

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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-55
Published: 01 December 2000
.... 37. Ibid., 316. 38. Ibid. 39. An eloquent defense of rights discourse for blacks in the United States is presented in Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Cambridge: Har...
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Disability, Debility, and Caring Queerly

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Christina Crosby, Janet R. Jakobsen
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 77–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8680454
Published: 01 December 2020
... so eloquently in Alchemy of Race and Rights , contracts are no solution to striking inequality of means, but they are necessary nonetheless to afford some protection to those not protected by wealth. Creating overarching legal protections for domestic workers does not revalue domestic work...
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Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani

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Stefano Harney
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 9–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-9
Published: 01 September 2002
.... In this moment his talent exceeded the mere alchemy of the social wages of whiteness in the service of property. He had been wronged, as in the classic theme in post-1960s “walking tall” action dra- mas where Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, or Sylvester Stallone (and usually their proplike families) suffer...
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The Bat Revolt in Values: A Parable for Living in Academic Ruins

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Martin Savransky
Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 135–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7371027
Published: 01 June 2019
... seek a secure ground from which to denounce the present, and in so doing they produce a curious alchemy of collective resentment and critical satisfaction. They enable academics to “worry about the university” 17 —to borrow the appropriately psychological choice of words of Fred Moten and Stefano...
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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession

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Jodi A. Byrd
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362397
Published: 01 June 2018
... as they gave “consent.” So began the alchemy of settler statecraft that produced autonomy and sovereignty as the adjudicative modes for the dialectical processes of possession and dispossession. State, tribe, and individual all collapse into the recognitive affirmations of consent, while the disavowal...
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“Making the Impossible Possible”: AN INTERVIEW WITH NALO HOPKINSON

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Alondra Nelson
Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-97
Published: 01 June 2002
... takes up residence in a magi- cal world of tree-dwellers), and horror (there is a sinister or melancholy tone to the story as well); while Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root is divided into themes that range from “Crick Crack” to “Science” and “Dreams.” Is this alchemy of conventions common among...
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Settler Modernity, Debt Imperialism, and the Necropolitics of the Promise

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Jodi Kim
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 41–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362349
Published: 01 June 2018
.... How has the United States been able to convert indebtedness, a position of weakness, into a position of relative strength and, indeed, into the very basis of the world’s monetary and financial system? 25 Significant elements in the cruel magic of this alchemy are gold and paper. In 1971, Nixon...
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The Origins of White Care

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Cotten Seiler
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 17–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971079
Published: 01 March 2020
... of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1998 . Kammerer Paul . The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics . New York : Boni and Liveright , 1924 . Le Conte Joseph . Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its...
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Time and Girmit

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Sudesh Mishra
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15
Published: 01 March 2005
... of “vernacular- ized form”—as he appears wise to the fact that any act of translation is simultaneously an act of alchemy—but none deem the moment worthy of critical refl ection. In the English version of Totaram Sanadhya’s Fijidwip men mere ikkish varsh (My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands),25 John...
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Worlding Oneness: Daoism, Heidegger, and Possibilities for Treating the Human

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Mei Zhan
Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1416109
Published: 01 December 2011
... in particular forms of political philosophy, statesmanship, prose, ritual, divination, personal philosophy, alchemy, health and healing, life cultivation, and so forth. The Daoist inclinations are deeply suspicious of all divides, hierarchies, and knowledges — “knowing,” after all, does...
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Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”

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Megan H. Glick
Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 97–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1597350
Published: 01 September 2012
... whiteness.” Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 93. 48. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, vol...
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Wallace's Monument and the Resumption of Scotland

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Andrew Ross
Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 83–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-83
Published: 01 December 2000
... for cultural poli- tics—just another flight of false consciousness—we placed third, disap- pointed but not devastated.12 Of course, leftists had good reason to be skeptical of the SNP’s romantic alchemy. Few were more caustic than Tom Nairn, the most con...
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Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive

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Tina M. Campt
Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 83–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-018
Published: 01 March 2009
..., defined not through the discourse of artistic representation, but that of magic, alchemy, indexicality: ‘I call “photographic referent” not the optionally real thing to which an image or a sign refers but the necessarily real thing which has been placed before the lens, without...
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Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race

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Robin Bernstein
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 67–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-055
Published: 01 December 2009
... Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 121, and Michael Rogin, Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), esp. 112...
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Guru English

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Srinivas Aravamudan
Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-1_66-19
Published: 01 March 2001
.... Bailery and Manfred Görlach, eds., English as a World Language (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982); Braj Kachru, The Alchemy of English (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1986); Robert Philippson, Linguistic Imperialism...
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