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Recovering Fugitive Freedoms
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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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Editors' Introduction
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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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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
... 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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Scenes of Speculation
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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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In the Trail of the Ship: Narrating the Archives of Illegal Slavery
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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...
FIGURES
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Lincoln's Black Mourners: Submerged Voices, Everyday Life, and the Question of Storytelling
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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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Writing into a Void: REPRESENTING SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE NARRATIVE OF COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
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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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Deep in the Blood of Time: WITNESSING TRAINS AND THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
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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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Culture and Colonization
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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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Compensatory Hypertrophy, or All about My Mother
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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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Stock Histories
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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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The Fragile Ends of War: Forging the United States Mexico Border and Borderlands Consciousness
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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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Disability, Debility, and Caring Queerly
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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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War, by All Means
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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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Black Soil
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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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China
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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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Cold War
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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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The Social Life of the Collective
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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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Collective
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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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Commodity
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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...
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