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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 neurodiversity black life university But the student has a habit, a bad habit. She studies. She studies but she does not learn. If she learned they could measure her progress, establish her attributes, give her credit. But the student keeps studying...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
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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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of kinship are solicited or produced by images of imperiled black life? What kinds of affective labor do such images demand or require? An encounter with still-moving-images leads me to challenge a series of binaries that include, among others, intimacy and distance, management and embrace...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
... structurally undergird the same type of harm it otherwise purports to advocate against. Accordingly, the article considers how black women “in the life,” women who are involved in drug use and prostitution, women who are, ultimately, the most literal embodiment of the “nappy-headed ho,” become the targets...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 68–76.
Published: 01 December 2015
... must not be dismissed but must instead be approached with rigor and imagination. Lincoln’s Black Mourners
Submerged Voices, Everyday Life,
and the Question of Storytelling
Martha Hodes
Historians have long questioned...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 51–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... language, he pleads for balancing the scales of racial justice with an eye toward a day of accounting. Black Muslim speech, he argues, calls out the moral crime of white racial terror against black life, though its catalytic role in what we now call the civil rights era remains under-documented. Baldwin...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 61–63.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group This essay discusses recent developments in black surveillance studies, science and technology studies (in particular the social life of DNA), and everyday practices of resistance and survival under segregation and policing. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on the lithic contact zone of the beach: humanism ( Planet of the Apes ), speculative realism (“The Terminal Beach”), and black feminist futurity ( Daughters of the Dust ). Considering the double life of the inhuman as earth and race, the author argues for a reckoning with black and indigenous geologic archives...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the “wars on poverty and drugs that combined to situate disease and enmity in the bodies of poor women.” 8 The Black mother as disease, Gumbs elaborates, “[posed] a threat on privileged populations through tax burdens, crime, and the general erosion of quality of life,” representing a path of infection...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 49–75.
Published: 01 September 2012
...,
and their experiments in human praxis, are continuously maintained and
extended?
James and Oiticica both witness the ongoing renewal and recon-
figuration of the motley crew. They find it first in the black popular arts
in Trinidad and Brazil and in the social life that was always, and that
remains, off...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of accumulation accelerated the racialization of capitalism. As denounced by the 1684 Portuguese Law on Tonnage, the holds of the early slave ships created spatial regimes that regularly killed captives through asphyxiation, a unique form of death resulting from the reduction of human life to capital...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... life enhancement) that attends progressive
narratives about molecular models of race.39 As the reference to the “black
race” suggests, the link between race and phenotype is not so easily rel-
egated to a benighted past.
Focusing...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Locating the afterlives of sexology in material and aesthetic form, this introduction to the special issue engages the largely unmarked detritus of a disaggregated sexological project, whose components have found renewed life in the biopolitical apparatus. The contributors to this issue identify not only...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., as they are all involved in the reproduction of predictable life” ( “Slow Death,” 754 ). Sequelae , on the other hand, are not translatable to the ordinariness of life writ large. They are a unique consequence of the dysgraphia of Black life (to use Christina Sharpe's framework) ( Sharpe, In the Wake , 33...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the repository of testimony on the part of predominantly
white witnesses to one-dimensional truth claims. And yet, to depend upon
archival corroboration to rewrite the history of black life can route you
back to the very negations at which you started...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., and blackness in particular, is the anti-avatar
of digital life. Blackness gets constructed as always oppositional to tech-
nologically driven chronicles of progress.
That race (and gender) distinctions would be eliminated with tech-
nology was perhaps the founding fiction of the digital age...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 55–73.
Published: 01 December 2021
... lives. As if Black life is somehow an affront—a tat for white police officers to extinguish with whatever tit they have at the ready, on hand, on bended knee. Black breath is Black life, and recurring images of white police officers bent over their victims and bent on extinguishing Black breath...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 75–93.
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the ways Tricky’s artistry explodes stable boundaries, particularly
around violence, race, sexuality, and gender.
Developed as a theoretical category in the 1980s, the concept of the
abject has been given new life in recent black queer theory...
Journal Article
Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
... occasioned by, moving in relationship to, and yet irreducible to the “spiritual ordeal” of death that is settler modernity. 20 For this reason, black radical sacrality, which we might just as well think of as the sorcery of (black social) life itself, unsettles, is ever poised to incite volatility within...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
....” As Michael Denning writes, it is not a synonym for wage labor “but for dispossession, expropriation and radical dependence on the market” ( “Wageless Life,” 81 ). 46 Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America , 632–34 . 45 Marx, Capital , 91 . 44 Marx, Poverty of Philosophy , 124...
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