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Secret and Spectral: Torture and Secrecy in the Archives of Slave Conspiracies
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that occurred in 1798 in the state of Bahia, Brazil, the author argues for the importance of shifting from historical methods that attempt to recover or reveal evidence of secrets within archival records to a focus on why both judges and suspects were motivated to keep secrets during interrogations...
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Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 115–140.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the traffic between the cultural movements in Harlem and Havana as evidence of diasporization, rather than as mere background information for two distinct national movements. In the 1920s and 1930s, the boundary-crossing activity of African American and Afro-Cuban writers and musicians, such as Langston...
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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and to support deaf oral communication; the ability of deaf subjects to read spectrograms was, moreover, the best evidence for the identification of information-bearing features in a complex speech wave. The sound spectrograph directly influenced information theory, which gave mathematical instructions...
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A Past Not Yet Passed: Postmemory in the Work of Mona Hatoum
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 77–93.
Published: 01 June 2014
... at the village of Deir Yassin and how the event impacts upon the artist’s work. Finding evidence of postmemory in many works from across Hatoum’s career, this article argues that postmemory underpins Hatoum’s emphasis on the broader issues of trauma, gender, orality, and corporeality. © 2014 Duke University...
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Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2018
... is conventionally treated as a self-evident and circumscribed practice of unjust taking and subtractive action. Instead, working across the lethal confluences of imperial conquest and racial capitalist predation, this essay critically situates the logic of propriation that organizes and underwrites predatory value...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2016
... operate today. Arguing that the #BlackLivesMatter movement has created a persistent looking as a means of making such issues visible, Mirzoeff describes how the grand jury prosecutors turned the event into a high-definition visual space in which only physical evidence and police testimony could be trusted...
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Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., historiographical awareness, and an overarching respect for evidence-based claims, scholars may admit more experimental forms of research and presentation without compromising the veracity of historical study. Yet such a shift will require a deeper exploration of the relation between aesthetic expression...
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Images of Mediterranean Crossing
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 61–82.
Published: 01 December 2023
... choices that shaped the image, and what was obscured from it, are structural to how it comes to depict “rescue” as a limited frame centering European intervention. The article argues that this photograph and its receptions work to reduce images of migrants to evidence for tales of European response...
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Hip-Hop
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 141–146.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Michael Ralph The tendency for hip-hop enthusiasts to measure the genre against an imaginary golden age evidences a curious brand of nostalgia: a mixture of homesickness, loss, and longing that coheres in the angst of a generation. Meanwhile rappers and politicians blame each other for the demise...
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1948: LAW, HISTORY, MEMORY
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 25–48.
Published: 01 June 2003
... the “exceptional acts of killing” that followed the village’s surrender.
This essay examines the memories of the Tantoura survivors and the
dynamics of death/survival that structure them. It considers how legal rules
of evidence and historical argument situated these memories and pro-
duced truths...
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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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The New International of Decent Feelings
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 189–199.
Published: 01 September 2002
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dence save their feelings.4 It is significant that Harpham’s critique of such
tarily the project an appeal to feelings will ultimately align itself against evidence and analy-
sis, as if proper thought will have taken place only in the obsessive oscil-
wherein Europe...
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Recovering Fugitive Freedoms
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
... fictive accounts
of the American past that black students were easily taught to notice any
evidence in mainstream culture that stood outside the narrow narrative
of African American history. Teachers informed students at a very early...
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Exit
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 39–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
... into the
installation, the clearly provocative aspect becomes evident.
I saw in New York a strong condition of the precarious, and this pre-
cariousness corresponds to a continuous movement. I find these concepts
looking at the physicality of places (wall of millboard, skyscrapers flutter-
ing in the wind...
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Civil Rights, Commerce, and US Colonialism
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 63–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
... are calling the “economies of dispossession.” The term economies of dispossession refers to capitalist and colonialist structures in dominance and the organizing logics that naturalize their attending violences. As such, economies of dispossession make evident how (settler) colonialism and racial capitalism...
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Cloning Scapegoats: MARTHA STEWART DOES INSIDER TRADING
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... by the overabundance of evidence presented in the
media, promises made in the name of domestic peace and security are
managed through measures that more accurately perpetuate insecurity
for all but a very few patriots. Through state-sanctioned measures like
racial profiling, the withholding of civil liberties...
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Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 67–94.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and discoverable as an apple.
Kemble scripted this meaningful action for the reader. He could
have included each full rhyme in a two-page spread; instead he chose, less
obviously, to leave every left-side page blank. No evidence suggests...
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Feminine Villains, Masculine Heroes, and the Reproduction of Ciudad Juárez
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 93–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
... between tradition and femininity, of
the alignment linking progress to masculinity, and of the difference
between femmes fatales and heroes.3 These story lines give the Silicon
Valley of Mexico proposal its shape and provide evidence...
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Late Secularism
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 123–136.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., is that no one was there to see how life began—and students
was the true one? should be given only firsthand evidence. The state of Alabama provides a
variation on this theme; all K–12 students are warned, “No one was pre-
Which religion sent when life first appeared...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in major group shows at
such venues as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Queens
Museum of Art, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. In the
United States, Shah’s artworks are frequently misread as visible evidence
of what it means to be Muslim or Pakistani in post...
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