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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Anna More Abstract This article argues that an infrastructural analysis of the early Portuguese slave trade permits a detailed account of the emergence of what Cedric Robinson called “racial capitalism.” The early Portuguese slave ship is one of the clearest examples of how an infrastructure...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Yuko Miki This article delves into the strange, contradictory archives of the illegal transatlantic slave trade that flourished between Angola and Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century. The article interweaves contemporary archival encounters with the documentary trail of a notorious slave ship...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 37–60.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Hershini Bhana Young Abstract This essay develops the idea of salvage as a material practice around ships’ cargo and as an archival epistemology. Using a legal court case concerning 43 million dollars worth of silver bars salvaged from the wreck of the SS Tilawa , a website constructed by the son...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . 1986 . “ Of Other Spaces .” Diacritics 16 , no. 1 : 22 – 27 . Moten Fred Harney Stefano 2013 . The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study . Wivenhoe, UK : Minor Compositions . Nyong’o Tavia . 2015 . “ The Shipped and the Bereft .” Bully Bloggers (blog) , 6...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships and held at the House of Correction in Rio de Janeiro, collected at the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IJ7 11. Photograph by Yuko Miki. Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2013
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
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Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships and held at the House of Correction in Rio de Janeiro, collected at the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IJ7 11. Photograph by Yuko Miki.
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and science of moving goods, people, and information efficiently to maximize profit—inheres in the infrastructures it calls into being. It traces the history of the chain gang through the shackles used to immobilize enslaved people on the ship, in the coffle, and on plantations, contending that such iron...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of slavery threatens to replicate the death work of the slave ship register, black digital practice offers a way of thinking through black life by invoking what the #transformDH collective has described as the digital humanities’ potential for “social justice, accessibility, and inclusion.” It suggests...
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Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 1 The first pages of the Mary E. Smith report (copy 2). On the right side, the lone column with annotations records “When they died.” The ship was captured on January 20, 1856; all of the Africans recorded here died in early February. Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, IJ6 472. Photograph
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 119–121.
Published: 01 March 2014
... breathed in that idea of feeling good, on this
mild summer day, with the sun shining, in this canyon surrounded by red
brick towers where this ship, our ship, had landed. Someone asked him
what he thought of Hirschhorn’s project, and he responded by saying...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... start from the slave ship rather than the railroad, for example, or place the electrical grid alongside the chain gang. 17 One outcome of this approach is an expansion of what it might mean to conjugate reading and infrastructure: reading as infrastructure, reading infrastructure, and readings...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Making a slave required deliberate steps to remove the gender markings of the enslaved body so that the African woman, child, or man would no longer be associated with humanness. Ungendering extended into slavery (the destination of the ship), where the once-African female body continued to be ungendered...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
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graphic team a double interview.37 Through the window behind his desk,
we could see and hear the gently clanking halyards of the ships in the
harbor. On 27/2, Cofré was captain of the port of San Vicente, a small
southern port and fishery on the same...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2015
... steamer came up the Digul
River to the camp with a load of guards, internees, supplies, and letters.
Like the sound of planes, the ship’s whistle was eagerly listened for — and
could be heard days before the ship became visible at the turn of the river
bend...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the Atlantic slave trade in his important work Spectres of the Altantic . We know from Sergio Bologna how much contemporary finance and logistics are entwined in today’s overleveraged global shipping industry, but this was true of the Atlantic slave trade too, where speculative finance was already at work...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., “a network of blood lines that closely cross but do not
mix” (Cartwright n.d Tensions between these visions complicate adop-
tive parents’ discourse about their pleasure in creating new forms of kin-
ship even as they pursue the remote...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 61–82.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Sestini's photograph to stand for this general account. The photograph is captioned “African asylum seekers packed into a boat,” and other featured images are captioned as “African asylum seekers rescued off boats and taken aboard an Italian navy ship, 8 June.” The invocation of “African asylum seekers...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of slavery or a transi-
tion to free labor. “I am surprised to see so many Chinamen scattered
throughout the Island,” writes Williams. “They are brought here by the
cargo, in English and Yankee ships, and sold into ten or more years of
slavery!” He continues, “You see them loaded with the cruel...
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