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The Racial State of the Everyday and the Making of Ethnic Statistics in Britain
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 11–36.
Published: 01 March 2009
... people's racial or ethnic identity, per se, than it does about the contradictory racial identities of the British state itself. These become visible both in terms of state practices with regard to race and in terms of the myriad ways that black people represent the state, appeal to it, resist it, or embody...
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African Americans, the Racial State, and the Cultus of War: Sacrifice and Citizenship
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to a racial state that reinscribed the racist order of White supremacism. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 war civil religion sacrifice African American soldiers World War I racial state 54 Marvin and Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation . 55 Schmitt and Strong...
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Racial Politics (in the United States)
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 219–222.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of Barack Obama's historic ascension to the presidency of the United States. Parsing cultural strains of racial triumph and vexation, of political elation as well as mourning, that mark the Obama phenomenon, the piece underscores the urgency of critically interrogating the post in “postracial.” © 2009...
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Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... frames state conceptions of rectal feeding and other forms of torture, the article further argues that understanding the racialization of Islam in the current wars requires analysis of the racial materiality of interventions that exploit the plastic potentials of the body. © 2020 Duke University Press...
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The Racial Infrastructure of the Terror-Industrial Complex
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Junaid Rana This essay draws on ethnographic research in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, to illuminate how the concepts of becoming and infrastructure reveal insights into racialization and the workings of the counterterror state. I discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial...
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Cripping the Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential of Disability Politics
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... distribution. This disability politic, which the author terms crip-of-color critique , foregrounds the utility of disability studies for feminist-of-color theories of gendered and sexual state regulation and ushers racialized reproduction and state violence to the forefront of disability analysis. The plot...
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Hailing the Twelve Million: U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportation, and the Imaginary of Lawful Violence
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and Customs Enforcement agents gained sanction for more targeted campaigns of militarized raids, racial profiling, and detentions. The author argues that heightened enforcement, including the 287g program, created dangerous opportunities for government agents to suspend basic democratic restraints on state...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... with brimming potential and is protected and nurtured by the state. While the distribution of this capacity of plasticity need not be restricted to groups socially or politically recognized as white, it is routinely denied to the racialized, whose bodies are seen as rigid, inflexible, overly reactive...
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Border Abolitionism: Analytics/Politics
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in Europe .” Social Text , no. 128 ( 2016 ): 75 – 102 . De Genova Nicholas . “ Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S. Nationalism .” In Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States , edited by De Genova Nicholas , 1 – 20...
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Texas-(s)ized Postmodernism; Or, Capitalism without the Dialectic
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 21–44.
Published: 01 June 2016
... one, a racial formation and a sex/gender formation, but so also are its machines. Contemporary technologies, and by this I include computers, rather than being value neutral, are thus also racial and sex/gender formations. How could it be otherwise, since the discrete state machine that is today...
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Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of racial dominance that have made possible the consolidation of the very units of sociality—humanity, the civilized world, mankind, nation-state, and the international—on which the UN Genocide Convention (and hegemonic genocide discourses more generally) depends for its epistemic and juridical cogency...
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Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2018
... relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and differential racialized valuations that continue to underwrite particular forms...
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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
... film projects, but it was the specu-
lar pleasure afforded by narrative film that drew audiences. Accordingly,
state censorship would henceforth be dominated by efforts to determine
which kinds of pleasures were threatening to racialism and hence...
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Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of the insect attempts to redistribute fear
to the detainee and his social networks. It helps to accrue hope and fellow-
ship to the nation, but it also risks unleashing spectacles of animality that
disrupt the consolidation of affective capital.
While state apparatuses have promoted a racialized...
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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
..., “to be driven from the State.”60
There is, within this secular political rationality, a tacit racial issue.
Both “race” and “reason” trace back etymologically to the Latin ratio. This
common root actually matters in the new secular political context of ratio...
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“This Isn’t the South Bronx”: Race, Criminality, and Disability in the Contemporary Opioid Epidemic
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of disability more generally because such cases can, I think, illuminate how the proper subject of disability is situated at once by the coercive, normalizing biopolitics of citizenship under neoliberalism and the myriad benefits and resources that accrue to whiteness in a racially stratified state and civil...
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Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... anxieties about complicity and success. The Ruffneck show, by contrast, imagined the decimated spaces of the midcentury welfare state to comprise an alternative ground for conceiving the racial origins of progress and thus for evaluating the epistemologies of contemporary liberalism. The article concludes...
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Necrospeculation: Postemancipation Finance and Black Redress
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
... processes began in the American northern states in the decades after the Revolutionary War. 5 As a result, as Patricia Lott explores, the American North developed its own forms of staunch disavowal and denial regarding the ongoing legacies of racial slavery north of the Mason-Dixon line. 6 However...
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The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Trimble Young This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against indigenous and racialized bodies...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and consider the opportunities, limits, and contradictions of pursuing transformative, intersectional political change and scholarship through efforts to bridge community activism and academic labor. We also critically engage questions concerning the role of the state in the context of racial capitalism...
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