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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of slavery threatens to replicate the death work of the slave ship register, black digital practice offers a way of thinking through black life by invoking what the #transformDH collective has described as the digital humanities’ potential for “social justice, accessibility, and inclusion.” It suggests...
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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 (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
... value death black social life In the Life Black Women and Serial Murder Terrion L. Williamson In April 2007 I was a twenty-­something-­year-­old doctoral student. I was at the predissertation stage, still taking classes, at the moment when I had some ideas but didn’t quite have...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
... , 93 – 110 . London : Routledge , 1995 . Sandoval Alonso de . Un tratado de la esclavitud (De instauranda aethiopum salute) . Madrid : Alianza Editorial , 1987 . Saunders A. C. de C. M. A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441–1555 . Cambridge...
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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 (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... for maintaining life—schools, hospitals, social services—have become increasingly compromised. As such, these novels enable an elaboration of a critical disability politic centered on welfare queen mythology and its attendant structures of state neglect, one that overwrites the punitive logics of public resource...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
... place among them, insofar as their expressive actions are understood as part of the ongoing ecologi- cal experiment that is black social life in Chicago’s South and West Sides. My intention is to study a given sonic or performative gesture as a tempo...
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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 (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
...- tus, connectedness, and participation in the civic life of black Philadel- phia. The black elite distinguished itself not primarily through wealth but through social networks, cultural capital, and genteel self-presentation. Scholars have used the term...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with individual lives, Ellison illuminates dimensions of American social and technological life” ( Power Lines , 175 ). 25. Yusoff, Billion Black Anthropocenes or None , 15 . 26. Yusoff, Billion Black Anthropocenes or None , 16 . 27. Coleman and DeFrantz, “Reach, Robot,” 53 . 28...
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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 (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Phrased differently, there can be no black life in the territory of Western, humanist Man, which is why the existence of black life disenchants Western humanism. 46 A similar account moves through the writings around neurodiversity: “Autistic bodies . . . these are bodies that not only defy social...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 83–114.
Published: 01 March 2009
... moment in the life of a recent addition to the family. Looking more closely, we see that the photo Social Text 98 • Vol. 27, No. 1 • Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/01642472-2008-018  © 2009 Duke University Press 8 3 Figure...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 31–56.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in the determination of socially tolerable and necessary violence] establishes an inextricable link between racial formation and sexual subjection.”10 This is why for Hartman resistance is figured through the black female’s sexual self-defense, as exemplified by the 1855 circuit court case State...
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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 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Russell Legacy . Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto . London : Verso , 2020 . Scholz Trebor , ed. Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory . New York : Routledge , 2012 . Sexton Jared . “ The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Trump's rhetoric in their legal defense. 5 And then there are the Proud Boys. Initially formed in 2016, the Proud Boys claim a far-right, neo-fascist male-only identity they pit against the Left, socialism, and feminism. They have organized multiple demonstrations against Black Lives Matter, most...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., emphasizing instead its violent, totalizing claims on black life as a thoroughly militarized and policed social relation. As a final illustration (and by way of conclusion), I turn briefly to the archives of black radicalism, via consideration of the passages from Frederick Douglass quoted at the outset...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 69–84.
Published: 01 December 2005
... striated, Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. It is a contradictory. serious and sure attempt to bring a Marxist inheritance into conversation with modes of pathologizing African American life, particularly...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Black feminist theory loss subjectivity i will be forty soon my mother once was forty —Lucille Clifton In the fall of the fourth year of my daughter's life, we move to Boston for my sabbatical. It is in the midst of this season of change...