...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...

...–Civil War nation, yet direct black voices remain submerged, available most often in public sources like newspapers and sermons or in scant and skeletal personal writings. The most vivid black voices are to be found in more troublesome sources: those mediated by sympathetic whites who recorded the words...

... and the status of “customary law” in post–civil war Mozambique and working on a long essay on health, illness, temporality, and freedom. Eric Estuar Reyes is assistant professor of Asian American studies at California State University Fullerton. He is currently completing a book manuscript...

... Sphere 131 wave of the women’s movement in the 1970s,8 the goals of social and political equity that eluded the post–Civil War Reconstruction and suf- fragists’ voting rights efforts a century earlier became increasingly difficult...

... by secularized mobilizations of the religious practice of sacrifice. Reflecting on the phenomenon of buffalo soldiers (following the US Civil War) to the First World War, Johnson considers how the integral role of black militarism permanently and fundamentally altered the relationship of African Americans to US...

... by any head of state since the end of World War II. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon quickly identified with the Bush administration’s post–September 11 worldview and sought to turn it to Israel’s advantage. Announcing a day of mourning in Israel and appropri- ating rhetoric from the era...

..., for the past few years of its post – civil war recovery, with gross domestic product (GDP) accelerating from 2.6% in 2005 to an expected 5.6% this year.” John Rumsey, “Guatemala: Right Place, Wrong Time,” The Banker, 1 November 2008. 21. According to the Zagada Institute, “While the Central...

... East sary. Samuel Huntington’s 1993 thesis about the post  –  Cold War world as an immutable clash between the universalist civilizations of the West studies scholars and the rest or the West and Islam, based on a historical account...

... contingencies, what constituencies, what ontologies are of tactical use in the struggle for a life worth living? The question takes this form in a world rendered tactical, in a social context that Matteo Pasquinelli describes with the phrase “immaterial civil war” 20 and, I must add, so as not to elide forms...

...-­first century might, in fact, look more like the nineteenth century, when the Civil War and industrialization first produced mass maiming of American bodies, than like the twentieth century, which featured instantly fatal forms of warfare, advanced limb-­saving surgery, and widely avail- able...

... this revocation of the post– World War II promise of the North to assist in the development of the for- mer colonies of the South and the concomitant rollback of the global advances of postcolonial hybrid politicocultural forms.5 This essay identi- fies three discrete, but isomorphic instances of this reverse...

... is the Representing Global Labor 129 By the end of struggle against the commodity economy — by which she means the strug- gle against an independent peasant and handicraft economy. Here she has a the twentieth chapter on the U.S. plains and the post – Civil War...

...Hamzah Baig Contemporary political events in Palestine and the United States have drawn renewed interest in the long history of militant Black-Palestinian solidarity. Although many historical accounts typically begin in the post-1967 Arab-Israeli War moment with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

... “clash of civilizations.” In this most widely cited and influential prediction of the post  –  Cold War condition, Samuel Hun- tington claimed to foresee emerging antagonisms between seven or eight world populations, divided no longer...

... abundantly clear that the (post–Cold War) project of European integration entails a pronouncedly differential layering of relative inclusion. The European Union’s presumptuous civilizing mission, as depicted by Žižek with typically sardonic wit, consistently reaffirms “the patronising Western cliché which...

.... In the heyday of the Cold War, when twenty-five presidents of America’s most prestigious universities released a policy statement on academic freedom, the prevailing conception of the role of universities in the nation was what John Guillory would associate with school culture — projecting...

...? Some interesting answers emerge if we compare Der Ewige Jude to Sleeper Cell, a post-­9/11 TV show that, along with 24, pioneered the propagandistic common sense of the war on terror in American popular culture. Sleeper Cell dramatizes the story...

... the empirical validity of the concept he helped to author, one in which the primary divisions of the post – World War II world were understood in ethico-political terms and predicated upon a transvaluation of the wartime opposition between fascism and democracy. Yet Kennan, as William Peitz suggests...

.... Kennan’s formulation betrayed con- siderable skepticism about the empirical validity of the concept he helped to author, one in which the primary divisions of the post – World War II world were understood in ethico-political terms and predicated upon a transvaluation of the wartime opposition...

.... Kennan’s formulation betrayed con- siderable skepticism about the empirical validity of the concept he helped to author, one in which the primary divisions of the post – World War II world were understood in ethico-political terms and predicated upon a transvaluation of the wartime opposition...