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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Edlie L. Wong This article investigates the possibilities of storytelling and black Atlantic literature in forging new critical approaches to the archive of New World Asian indenture. It also emphasizes the significance of the comparative study of bonded labor to our understanding of “the Atlantic...
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Scenes of Speculation
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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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History Hesitant
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Lisa Lowe This article explores under what conditions, with what methods, and in relation to what materials the question of recovery with respect to slavery and freedom can be posed. Accounts of Black Atlantic and African American slavery are central to understanding enslavement and the terrains...
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Madam Zajj and US Steel: Blackness, Bioperformance, and Duke Ellington’s Calypso Theater
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
... broadcast promoted two competing and incompatible narratives: one that traced a direct line from the innovations of mid-century corporate prosperity to middle-class domestic security and another that followed a black expressive line of flight as it moved across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, New Orleans...
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Editors' Introduction
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., the Mid-
dle Ground, the black Atlantic, and the Atlantic and Pacific worlds—that
have allowed historians to reimagine cross-cultural encounters.1 In the
field of slavery and freedom, this renewed attention to “places, boundaries,
and movement” has dovetailed with the emergence of the digital...
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Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... creators, coders, and programmers have worked ethical, intentional praxis into their work in pursuit of more just and humane productions of knowledge. Because blackness is most often constructed in proximity to bondage and the rise of Atlantic slaving, black digital practice uses the commodification...
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The Uses of Diaspora
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 45–73.
Published: 01 March 2001
... brilliant 1993 study, The Black Atlantic, threatens contin-
ually (despite Gilroy’s own qualifications) to conflate diaspora, and its
particular history of usage in black cultural politics, with Gilroy’s propo-
sition of that field he calls the “black Atlantic”—a phrase...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2015
...: The World the Slaves Made . New York : Vintage Books . Gikandi Simon . 2015 . “Rethinking the Archive of Enslavement.” Early American Literature 50 , no. 4 : 81 – 102 . Gilroy Paul . 1993 . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 47–69.
Published: 01 September 2018
.../17533171.2016.1176720 . Giladi Rotem . 2017 . “ Negotiating Identity: Israel, Apartheid, and the United Nations, 1949–1952 .” English Historical Review 132 , no 559 : 1440 – 72 . doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex372 . Gilroy Paul . 1993 . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness...
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Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 59–81.
Published: 01 March 2009
... supremacy continue to, as J. Lorand
Matory has noted, “create the conditions for the Black Atlantic dialogue
over collective identity.”9
In what follows, I examine the framing of the heritage tourism discus-
sion within the scholarly representation of Ghanaian-diaspora interaction.
I draw...
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Logistics Genealogies: A Dialogue with Stefano Harney
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., it survives as the basis of the black radical tradition, in radical social poesis, as Laura Harris says. It survives in/as blackness. So the shipped, the containerized, the accessed of the Atlantic slave trade gave birth to modern logistics but also conjured something in the break of this massive...
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The Early Portuguese Slave Ship and the Infrastructure of Racial Capitalism
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Exchanges, Mercantilist Enclosures: Racial Capitalism in the Black Mariner Narratives of Venture Smith and John Jea .” CR: New Centennial Review 3 , no. 1 ( 2003 ): 147 – 78 . Klein Herbert . The Atlantic Slave Trade . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . Lara Silvia...
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Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterword
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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 the nature of evidence
intersect with histories of race and colonialism in increasingly generative
ways. These questions...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2009
... locations as diasporic subjects that are
lost in a black Atlantic frame. However much diaspora may be about return,
connections across borders, and modes of exchange, the stories contained
in these photographs reveal the limits of diaspora, its gaps and incongruity,
at the same time that it shows...
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Counting Frequency: Un/gendering Anti-Black Police Terror
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... as Black female/mother. 12 We can map Erica Garner's and Joselita de Souza's stories in the oceanic—both nowhere and somewhere. They were Black females/mothers suspended in the time/space of the wake of slavery / the Middle Passage. We can think of the Black Atlantic as a wake zone. It is where...
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James Baldwin and the Power of Black Muslim Language
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 51–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to change it” (10). 67 Baldwin, “The Negro and the American Promise.” 68 Gilroy, Black Atlantic , 198 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 James Baldwin Black Muslims Nation of Islam Malcolm X civil rights It is rumored that gods grow where the blood...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): np.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (University
of Michigan Press) and Der Black Atlantic (Haus der Kulturen der Welt),
coedited with Paul Gilroy. Her current project, “Image Matters: Archive,
Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe,” engages family pho-
tography as a crucial site of cultural formation and articulation for two...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): np.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Boundaries and the ‘History’
of the Black Atlantic,” African Studies Review (April 2000). His forth-
coming monograph is titled Colonial Blackness: The Cultures of Kinship,
1622 –1778 .
Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Anthropology...
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
... . Gilroy Paul . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . London : Verso , 1993 . Gilroy Paul . “ Introduction: Culture as a Vital Force .” In Time Come: Selected Prose , edited by Johnson Linton Kwesi , xv – xix . London : Picador , 2023 . Glissant Édouard...
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Clay: The Work of Gender and Race in the Maintenance Ecology
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . 111. Montserrat, Revue , 22 . 112. Montserrat, Revue , 22 . 113. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection , 26 . 114. Montserrat, Webb-Ellis, and Moore, Cage ; cf. Burnett, Grassling . 115. Montserrat and King, “(Some Possibilities)” ; Gilroy, Black Atlantic , 4...
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