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...Adrian Burgos, Jr. The project of recovering the history of the Negro Leagues, and in so doing establishing a more complete account of U.S. professional baseball's segregated past, is fertile ground for interrogating the possibilities and limitations of diasporic frameworks. This article examines...

..., it is asked, did Sloane's natural history profit from its engagement with African slavery, and upon what techniques did it depend for its authoritative depiction of plant species? Of special interest is the relationship between description and illustration in his published Natural History of Jamaica (1707...

...Catherine Soussloff; Mark Franko Duke University Press 2002 Visual and Performance Studies A NEW HISTORY OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY No one can any longer separate knowledge from power, reason from...

...Samera Esmeir Duke University Press 2003 1948 LAW, HISTORY, MEMORY One of the difficulties in discussing violence against Palestinians during Samera...

...Rosalind C. Morris Duke University Press 2002 Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror Why does the history of the East appear as a history of religions? Rosalind C. —Karl Marx...

...Amy Villarejo Duke University Press 2005 Tarrying with the Normative QUEER THEORY AND BL ACK HISTORY Der Alptraum: I am in a warmly lit room...

... The Traffic in History Over the last twenty years, U.S. scholars have witnessed a proliferation David Kazanjian of programmatic calls to abandon research that takes the nation-state as and María an unquestioned frame of analysis in favor of what have variously been Josefina called...

...Pamela Voekel; Elliott Young Duke University Press 2007 The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas For the past three summers, the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transna- Pamela Voekel tional History of the Americas has hosted roughly...

...Frida Gorbach Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Eileen Brockbank Hysteria and History A Meditation on Mexico...

...Carla Marcantonio Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a film whose glossy surface belies its investment in history—cinema’s history, Spain’s history, transnational history. It tracks a correspondence among cinema, transsexuality, and medium specificity through the trope of transgenesis: skin...

... and colonialism are the conditions of possibility for liberalism, we must hesitate before reiterating the desire for freedom. Roundtable History Hesitant Lisa Lowe Considering slavery and freedom in relation to the question of recovery...

...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...

... materialist, Jameson, in the context of today’s new materialism. Much has already been said about Jameson’s writings on utopia, art, dialectics, allegory, history, and totality. Yet this article explores a different side of Jameson’s work, not new materialism so much as old materialism: historical materialism...

... of style. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Style, Tsotsi-style, and Tsotsitaal The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure Rosalind C. Morris Anyone familiar with contemporary South African popular culture is also familiar with the scandal and success of Teboho...

...Roderick A. Ferguson Duke University Press 2005 Of Our Normative Strivings AFRIC AN A MERIC AN STUDIES AND THE HISTORIES OF SE XUALIT Y In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color...

... Press 2019 Second Amendment Native American history Indian Peace Commission Civil War stock photography The billboards went up one night in Greeley, Colorado, in April 2013—two of them, identical, flanking the city at two major intersections. 1 Their black-and-white image featured...

...Jennifer L. Morgan This afterword revisits the archive as a problem space for scholars grappling with slavery and its afterlife. archives history slavery race References Best Stephen . 2012 . “On Failing to Make the Past Present.” Modern Language Quarterly 73 , no. 4...

... Press 2022 telecommuting plasticity history labor personal computers To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. —Alvin Toffler, Future Shock I stepped into this movement thinking...

..., “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” The history of the field of digital humanities, and especially digital history, is often traced to work by Edward Ayers and Roy Rosenzweig. See Edward Ayers, “The Pasts and Futures of Digital History: Edward L. Ayers,” Virginia Center for Digital History...

...After Globalism Writing Group This section examines how we recount our lives, particularly those lost and forgotten in history. Oftentimes, the one who recounts is expected to do so with clarity and truthfulness. We turn here to other acts of recollection that involve amnesia and encryption...