...Thulani Davis This article describes the process of looking across post–Civil War political, labor, and social archives for black community formations, black imaginaries around freedom, and fugitive legislative changes in an attempt to recover freed people's theorizing of the political. © Thulani...

...Jennifer C. Nash Saartjie Baartman's story has become central to black feminist theory and politics, serving as the primary analytic vehicle for explaining the violence that the dominant visual field inflicts on black female bodies. The re-telling of Baartman's story has also provided black...

... and the production of environmental and climate injustice, and how grassroots movements have responded to these concerns. Specific movement formations included in this discussion include the Central Coast Climate Justice Network of California, the Movement for Black Lives/Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion...

.../01642472-1597332   © 2012 Duke University Press 4 9 motley crew reconfigured itself as, in Linebaugh and Rediker’s words, “a socio-­political formation of the eighteenth-­century port or town . . . closely related to the urban mob and the revolutionary...

..., property, indebtedness, and jurisprudence continue to impinge upon and be contested or negotiated by Indigenous and Black peoples today but also how these shape political, economic, and social formations more broadly and variously manifest between past and present tense. It is precisely the coexistence...

... of racial formation, producing the liberal white American as fairly privileged on the grounds of patriotism, but it also simultaneously creates American national identity as a privileged racial Spirit of Neoliberalism Black politics...

... which it catalyzed,” Bush Mama is made possible not so much by the good judgment and artistic genius of Gerima and his counterparts in the movement of black independent filmmakers (though these are undeniable factors) as by the activity of radical black political formations and the urban...

... gatherings. By framing the heritage tourism discussion in this way — particularly highlighting the cultural and political terrain of Ghanaian racial formation —  I hope to provoke a rethinking of the contours of Black identity forma...

... developed extends to present-day discussions of black sexuality as a women’s sexuality. I would like to trouble this historical moment in par- ticular—the one in which black middle-class and intellectual formations mode of racialized responded to pathologization...

... operates, I am here referring to racial infrastructure as a spatial formation in which the social, political, and economic relationships of racial systems operate through dominance and discursive power. What I find instructive in the examples used by Risen and a range of reportage on the post-9/11...

... of black European diasporic formation. This essay analyzes a series of images that register blacks as Europeans, yet framed through the lens of national and familial idioms that presents them as undeniable members of German society. In so doing, the article highlights both the tensions of diasporic...

... formations that rendered large segments of African-descended popula- tions in places like the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Europe something other than black. The unique racial formations within which these populations exist complicate thinking about diaspora as a community...

... historical mark of the intimate proximities to inhuman matter. Dash’s black feminist praxis does not just unmask the heteropatriarchy and its affective architectures (as it is not primarily a praxis for the social critique of these formations) but rearranges relation through an inversion of the politics...

... words) positions, formations, sites of knowledge production, and, well (to narration and use a humbler category), kinds of people (like those black queens on the South Side of Chicago whom Ferguson invokes) who would be candidates most privileged for the kind...

.... This follows from how discursive formations articulated around debt represent a politics of propriation (of the world as translatable for property ownership and of personhood as self-ownership) to be the only political real. Under such political and discursive conditions, familiar notions of political redress...

... classification, brown is no more a natural color than black or white or yellow or red; brown is a verb.10 “Brown” designates a kind of constitutive ambiguity within U.S. racial formations—an identity that both complicates and preserves the binary opposition white...

... crystallizes and makes visible a variety of social tensions that are otherwise so widely scattered across disparate social knowledge formations as to go either unnoticed or unmentioned. Young black and Latino entertainers and entrepreneurs like Sean “P-Diddy” Combs, Russell Simmons, Percy “Master P” Miller...

... sacrificed themselves, thereby participating in a cultic form of nationalism that transformed them into heroes and that promised to forge their inclusion in the nation’s political body. Black military service in this way transcended the mundane level of conundrum and stoked powerful expressions of loyalty...

... ture and politics in an international sphere is that the term diaspora, so Edwards attractive to many of our analyses, does not appear in the literature under consideration until surprisingly late after the Second World War. Of course, black artists...

... transnational, international, inter-American, transatlantic, black Saldaña-Portillo Atlantic, circum-Atlantic, Pacific rim, border, postnationalist, hemi- spheric, diasporic, cosmopolitan, and global frameworks. Often initiated from interdisciplines such as women’s studies, American studies, Afri...