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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 (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Christen A. Smith Abstract Examining Black women's experiences with policing, this article argues that police terror is not predicated upon gender; rather, it enacts gender by undoing gender . Thus, it requires a new arithmetic of time and space in order to read beyond normative, hypermasculine...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 51–76.
Published: 01 December 2008
... feminists with tools for grappling with racialized pornography, which is thought to re-enact Baartman's violent exhibition by rendering black women objects for white male spectators' consumption. This article argues that the constant invocation of Baartman's story has allowed an anti-pornography formation...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2023
... imperialism, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, as well as imperialism's impacts on Black femininity during the Cold War. This article argues that Black feminist aesthetics, such as those Nengudi and Lorde employ, restores the context of commodities like nylons, revealing the centrality of Black women's...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2010
... for tourists in Havana's street markets. The essay traces the figure to nineteenth-century artist Víctor Patrício Landaluze, whose widely circulated lithographs enacted key modes of understanding race and emergent nationalism in mid- to late-nineteenth - century Cuba. His portraits of mulatas and black women...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Britt Rusert This article uses a collection of African American women's friendship albums held at the Library Company of Philadelphia to reflect on scholarly resistance to reading disappointment, and negativity more generally, in the archives of black freedom. Rather than viewing these artifacts...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 45–65.
Published: 01 March 2014
... ). The paper argues that the logics of feminism-future and feminism-past share often-invisible racialized ideologies: an insistence that intersectionality’s investment in black women’s embodied experience is suspect. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Institutionalizing the Margins
Jennifer C. Nash...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2013
... contrasted policies
that penalize poor black women’s childbearing with the high-tech fertil-
ity industry that promotes childbearing by more affluent white women.”1
As a consequence, the old dystopia produced an implicitly eugenic social
order in which white women were granted resources that allowed...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... . Puar Jasbir . “ Coda: The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints .” GLQ 18 , no. 1 ( 2011 ): 147 – 58 . Ritchie Andrea . Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston : Beacon , 2017 . Roberts Dorothy . Killing...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 65–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in representations of the black female body. Black women’s butts,
breasts, and faces have routinely been represented as repulsive, underde-
veloped, exotic, or primitive. Furthermore, these kinds of representations
have not been limited to the unenlightened past. Even at the end of the
twentieth century...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
... against Blacks, and the extralegal killing of Black women, children, and men was occurring regularly with impunity. Public lynching of African Americans, in fact, had become routine and carnivalesque for White mobs and their voyeuristic audiences. These ritual murders occurred once a week, on average...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
... article, Brittnay Proctor hones in on “the conflation of black women’s labor with material labor, which has disavowed critical considerations of the affective dimension of black women’s labor that exceed Marxist conceptions of the ‘worker’ and of ‘labor.’” Turning specifically to Hardt and Negri’s...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2022
... images” 1 of Black female strength—what Joan Morgan famously called the image of the “strongblackwoman”—that treat Black women as impervious to pain. 2 Nor am I offering a conception of Black women as long-suffering, or as always already grieving. Instead, I argue that Black feminist conceptions...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 85–100.
Published: 01 December 2005
... as sites for the production of discourses of sexuality
and morality—arises from black feminist historiography, in particular.
Evelyn Hammonds, for instance, thematizes the discursive components
of black women’s sexuality...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 61–63.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of #BlackLivesMatter, a call-in within an ongoing movement against state and extralegal violence that highlighted and remedied the repeated occlusion of black women and girl victims of abuse from many public campaigns, we understand how a generational movement galvanized by the murder of Trayvon Martin has been led...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
... interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2000
... issues through which the black culture of poverty is
constructed: juvenile crime, female sexuality and reproduction, and
women in the welfare state.
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to the rise of the independent and objective statistical fact as an explanatory ideal party to the devastating thingification of black women, children, and men. 3 In other words, for abolitionists, Neptune’s death-as-data evidenced the carnal violence of overseers, drama of slavery, injustice meted out...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
... “poor women and women of Color” clean their houses and tend to their children. 8 It is significant that Lorde understood her practice of self-care as a Black, lesbian woman as “coterminous with political struggle” against this backdrop. 9 Any political movement is vulnerable to existing dynamics...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of Freedom: Reconstructing Black Women's Political History, 1865–1880.” In African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965 , edited by Gordon Ann D. , 66 – 99 . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Brown Vincent . 2009 . “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery...
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