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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
...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...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 59–60.
Published: 01 December 2015
... articles, they reflect on recent or ongo- ing research that grapples with texts produced at moments of new or nominal freedom—by black mourners after Lincoln’s assassination in the United States, by freed people in the colony of Liberia, and by laboring communities in the postemancipation South...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
... job. Instead he was known as an itinerant street peddler and shop worker who spent most of his time around nonwhite men. For his lack of rank and his frequent associations with freed people of African descent, he was exiled to an island off...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in which freed people and their children made the quotidian political.” How- ever, I want to point to a somewhat different emphasis in our approaches to our archives to more fully elaborate what I mean by overreading scenes of speculation. In an earlier...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., complex world that enslaved and freed-people wrought amid astonishing violence. These lives are undoubtedly fragmentary. But no archive offers an exhaustive record of anyone’s life; fragmentation is not unique to the archives of slavery. The gaps remain . 28 Copy 2’s omission...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 68–76.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to the American Missionary Hodes · Lincoln’s Black Mourners Social Text 125 • December 2015 71 Association, given their interest in portraying newly freed people, children included, as solemnly devastated. Ventriloquized black voices must...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 67–90.
Published: 01 December 2007
... dynamic of mestizaje — continue to be based on a monolithic past reflects a preconfigured historical imagination especially with regard to the foundational category, slavery. At its most elemental level, this structuring associates, then and now, specific people and places with the institution...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
...) brought home anew the signifi cance of public transit to the landscape and economy of LA. In a city in which it is easy for many to drive by bus stops without registering the presence of the people who wait there, the largely empty stops are harbingers of a shadow city in limbo. Bus and train...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... Our role, infinitely more humble, is to proclaim the coming and prepare the way for those who hold the answer — the people, our peoples, freed from their shackles, our peoples and their creative genius finally freed from all...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 13–24.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the reaction to the loss of a loved person, or to the loss of some abstraction which has taken the place of one, such as fatherland, liberty, an ideal, and so on. As an effect of the same influences, melancholia instead of a state of grief develops in some people, whom we consequently suspect of a morbid...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
... garnered immediate attention. News stations interviewed locals—some self-identified as Native American—who expressed confusion and dismay over the incongruity between image and text, how advocates for gun rights could use Native people to sell their message when guns were used by settlers to dispossess...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 81–102.
Published: 01 June 2007
... overhead. A police car cruises down the street. The waiter, who appears to be Latino, ignores it all. Border Patrol and local police officers frequent the place. I feel their momentary scrutiny. Soon the authorities leave. A few minutes pass, then about ten people run into the bright light...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 77–103.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of US history, domestic work was performed by African American and immigrant women. During the 19th century, domestic workers in the North were mostly Irish immigrant women; in the West, they were Asian or Latina; in the South, African American women—first as slaves and then as freed people—worked...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 13–22.
Published: 01 June 2007
... as the emblem of social movements what people could create together, not only to critique existing norms but need to be to enact more enriching cultural practices. It was reduced by the emergent condominium of reaction to an aberrant identity that would...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Anastácia's powerful image of resistance despite her muzzling, freeing the mouth—both Anastácia's and Williams's—for eating produces a visceral effect. Williams's mouth is freed from the muzzle; Anastácia's mouth becomes unsealed under Williams's ministrations—tongue, lips, teeth. In this way, the Black mouth...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 63–66.
Published: 01 September 2009
... class hungry for amusement and delight. Indeed, on the night of our visit, we appeared to be the only Westerners in an audience of a couple hundred people, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom appeared to be in their late twenties and thirties, with a smattering of folks in their forties...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 67–70.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of a couple hundred people, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom appeared to be in their late twenties and thirties, with a smattering of folks in their forties. (There were no elderly diners.) In other words, much of the Chinese audience imbibing food and drink that evening amid spectacular re...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 71–73.
Published: 01 September 2009
... middle class hungry for amusement and delight. Indeed, on the night of our visit, we appeared to be the only Westerners in an audience of a couple hundred people, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom appeared to be in their late twenties and thirties, with a smattering of folks in their forties...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 74–77.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to be the only Westerners in an audience of a couple hundred people, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom appeared to be in their late twenties and thirties, with a smattering of folks in their forties. (There were no elderly diners.) In other words, much of the Chinese audience imbibing food and drink...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 78–84.
Published: 01 September 2009
... not to a Western audience but to an upwardly mobile and urbane Chinese middle class hungry for amusement and delight. Indeed, on the night of our visit, we appeared to be the only Westerners in an audience of a couple hundred people, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom appeared to be in their late...