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Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
... underexamined global circuits of comparative knowledge production about race and racial formations in the Atlantic plantation system. Recovery is not the primary aim of the comparative archive encounter. Rather, the adaptive acts of comparison and translation yield critical insights into the multiform workings...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Greg L. Childs This article explores the problem of torture and secrecy in the archives of conspiracies, seditions, and black resistance movements in the colonial Americas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the example of the Tailors' Conspiracy, a seditious movement...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 68–76.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Martha Hodes Considering the question of the recovery of marginalized voices in the archives, this article reflects on the problem of finding and interpreting the personal responses of African Americans to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Black freedom was central to the post...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to histori-
cal writing and research—an imperative infused with political urgency
by generations of scholar-activists—and the impossibility of recovery
when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization
occlude certain...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2015
...David Kazanjian This contribution to a roundtable on the question of recovery makes a case for overreading the archives of the black Atlantic diaspora not only for what they tell us about who did what, where, and when but also for scenes of speculative thought. The author draws on his research...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and aesthetics—may seem
extraneous if not antithetical to historical and digital humanities methods
at stake in the recovery of archival materials, but Brown demonstrates
that the opposite is the case. In broad terms, Brown makes a powerful
argument...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
... by Herself . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Roundtable
Archives and Histories
of Racial Capitalism
An Afterword
Jennifer L. Morgan
In taking seriously the question of recovery, this extraordinary collection
of articles has...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 59–60.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that Davis worries might follow from a critique of the archive. Mov-
ing beyond mere recovery, then, they ask what happens when the limits of
archival work become, as Davis says, prologue—the necessary ground for
new questions and forms of historical interpretation...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the queries are a
symptom of the problem of our skewed archives, which rarely show resis-
tance to the recovery of slavery experience. I posited his resistance as both
normal and within his rights, though it is not normal in the archive...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
Considering slavery and freedom in relation to the question of recovery
and the archive invites inquiry into what is to be recovered and under
what conditions.1 This serious provocation gestures toward the prom-
ise of recovery yet sets this promise within the limits of an archive that
authorizes...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and
another means to reach audiences—and develop public archives—outside
of the academy. However, as Dillon remarks, there is a latent tension here
that also lies at the center of this Social Text issue on recovery. The maps
upon which digital projects rest...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 25–48.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the veterans of the Alexandaroni Brigade, the unit
of the Israeli army that captured the village, and the official records he
located in various Israeli archives. The testimonies included reports con-
cerning the killing, or massacring...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 131–149.
Published: 01 September 2001
...João Biehl Duke University Press 2001 Agamben, Giorgio. 1998 . Homo sacer:Sovereignty and bare life . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ____. 1999 . Remnants of Auschwitz: The witness and the archive . New York: Zone Books. Arendt, Hannah. 1958 . The human...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
... transparent reflections of past worlds;
archival traces must therefore be interpreted with great care. However,
when we shift our emphasis from historical recovery to rigorous and
responsible creativity, we recognize that archives are not just the records...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 151.
Published: 01 September 2001
....”
We found Vita situated on a hill of absolute misery, overcrowded, with
tents, a wooden chapel, and an inadequate kitchen, and no hot water or
bathroom facilities. Some 200 men were living in the “recovery area...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of “recovery.” None of us want it to go back to how it was but to keep the space open for change. While planning it, we hoped this issue could serve as some kind of gathering of momenta, reminders of what was happening for people personally and politically in 2020. We offer a collection of impressions, some...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 111–123.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Orientalism and Cultural Imperialism, pointing to absolute
continuities between the work of mourning, repetition, and recovery that
unites the humanist to the exile, culture to nation. I trace some of the
breadth and foundation of a Saidian inventory from Beginnings to “Secu...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... techniques. Other thinkers here draw on a historical materialism shaped by queer of color critique, arguing that historical recovery work on the twentieth century contextualizes and makes visible the production of this crisis and its long historical tail. Across the twentieth century, trans emerged...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
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to the archive—is being productively paired with theoretical approaches
to both the archive and blackness itself.18 I am instead interested in what it
might mean to reflect on and perhaps even give into that feeling of disap-
pointment. Must recovery always entail...
Journal Article
Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Their elaborate deceptions seemed to abrogate any possibility of recovery of black life. Today, however, many scholars are pouring energy into this work. To read across these multiple archives and attend to their narratives and counternarratives is to understand how the violence of illegal slavery resonates...
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