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Historical Experience in The Harder They Come
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Prakash Younger Duke University Press 2005 Historical Experience in The Harder They Come
Jamaica in the Cultural World System Prakash...
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Indian Peace Commission members in council with Arapahos and Cheyennes at F...
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Figure 3 Indian Peace Commission members in council with Arapahos and Cheyennes at Fort Laramie. Print by Alexander Gardner, 1868, Reserve Collection IV.3.4, 25159. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 59–81.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jemima Pierre This article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora...
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A Short Introduction to Adorno's Mediation between Kultur and Culture
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 139–143.
Published: 01 June 2009
... as a historical epoch and as human beings' increasing technical mastery over nature. In its historical sense, the Enlightenment has been victorious in the United States, where free and equal citizens engage in market exchanges as free agents, without feudal and precapitalist residues. Examining the concept...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
...David L. Eng; Teemu Ruskola; Shuang Shen This introduction frames a special two-part issue consisting of eleven essays and a visual dossier, which collectively investigate the conceptual, political, historical, and cultural relationships between China and the human. By juxtaposing China...
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I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Dai Jinhua This article reads a Chinese blockbuster film, City of Life and Death ([南京! 南京! Nanjing! Nanjing! ] dir. Lu Chuan, 2009), as an allegory of China and the human for contemporary China. This movie illustrates the historical entanglement...
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“Beat It like a Cop”: The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Postracialism
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 21–41.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and criminalization and the historical context of black struggles for self-determination and representation within contemporary cultural production? How is a popular hip hop song that explicitly recalls an infamous police beating, and implicitly brackets the ensuing historic urban uprising, connected to a sonic...
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On (Our) American Ground: Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational “Guantanamera”
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Ricardo L. Ortíz “On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational American future...
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The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Alys Eve Weinbaum This article explores the historical continuity between women’s sexual and reproductive exploitation in chattel slavery and in contemporary biocapitalism. It theorizes the centrality of the exploitation of the reproductive body and reproductive processes to the long history...
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Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... color-line.” Next, original archival material is used to reconstruct the historical soundscape of Tony Schwartz's street recordings and reveal the sonic color-line as the aggregated racialized constraints and protocols regarding sound that Nueva York is both embedded in and struggles against. Finally, I...
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Style, Tsotsi -style, and Tsotsitaal : The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Rosalind C. Morris This essay examines the historical emergence and recent revival of the figure of the tsotsi via the transatlantic migration of aesthetic forms and their dispersal across generic and social spaces. The historical arc of the tsotsi traverses a period that opens at the beginning...
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Testifying to Rightlessness: Haitian Refugees Speaking from Guantánamo
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
Published: 01 September 2010
... guardians. These Haitian refugees inhabited both literal and discursive “zones of exclusion” that they had to negotiate in order to communicate their stories and have their claims for recognition as full persons heard and taken seriously. The essay opens by examining the historical, political, and economic...
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Cosmologies, Globalization, and Their Humans
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on the development of historical ironies in Jia's early works, including Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), finally reaching Jia's best-known work, 2004's The World . The essay then detours through an eighteenth-century cosmological debate on the meaning of Chinese philosophy...
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Dogma-Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 43–74.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Leerom Medovoi This article works backward from the targeting of Muslims in the war on terror to argue that religion and race have a historical relationship more intimate than typically thought. In particular, it argues that religion is not merely one more semiotic coordinate, alongside descent...
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Anti-Oedipus, Kinship, and the Subject of Affect: Reading Fanon with Deleuze and Guattari
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 77–95.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Deleuze and Guattari’s abstractions more concrete and allows us to review the ethical stakes of their project by providing a historical foil for their theories. Ultimately, I argue, reading them together allows us to revisit queer concepts of kinship from different historical and theoretical frames. ©...
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Third World Project, or How Poco Failed
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the Third World imagined a decolonizing world system, which allowed them to rethink culture and humanity as historical categories. To describe the nature of the world system of decolonization, I consider three foundational works that saw print following the historic Bandung Conference in 1955: Frantz...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 1–17.
Published: 01 December 2016
... because they together underpin one dominant strategy of the power that we call the political, while at the same time we recognize that the relationships among race, religion, and war are simultaneously too compressed, historically transient, and reversible to take the form of a simple functionalism...
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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
...Vincent Brown Creative historical scholarship demonstrates that archives are not just the records bequeathed by earlier times. Archives also consist of the tools we use to explore the past, the vision that allows us to read its signs, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history's...
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Mapping Space, Power, and Social Life
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 147–151.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Claudio Saunt The spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities invites experimentation with new modes of historical storytelling. Those modes—interactive, participatory, and ever evolving—may redefine our vision of scholarship by creating innovative ways to distribute and create historical...
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Stained University: Reckoning with Duke's Nexus of Higher Education and Tobacco Capitalism
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jaime Acosta Gonzalez; Eli Meyerhoff Abstract Duke University was founded on tobacco wealth, and now it has a tobacco-free campus. How should we understand this change? How can communities around this university, and higher education broadly, reckon with our historical and ongoing complicities...
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