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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...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
... we aim to write histories of black social life or political thought from such archival records with the aim of recovering or proving the intentions of historical actors, this previous, failed attempt at recovery haunts our efforts and can guide us...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Jennifer L. Morgan In taking seriously the question of recovery, this extraordinary collection of articles has offered ample evidence that historians of the black Atlantic are fully engaged with the problem of the archive. We write and work at a juncture in which long-standing questions about...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 59–60.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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. Social Text 125 • Vol. 33, No. 4 • December 2015...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
... be the perfect metaphor for what we seek. What kind of pulse, rhythm, can we build on together? To archive in this way offers us the chance to see and remember the range of innovative and affective responses to this time. We wanted to collect and record how people were reacting to the welter of events taking...
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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...
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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...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... many scholars, who hesitated before their opacity. 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...
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