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People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 31–56.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Jared Sexton This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers...
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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and Patricia Powell. What does it mean to place the archives of New World slavery and Asian indenture in conversation or in juxtaposition, especially when this counterpoint does not result in a structure of complementarity? By reading across multiple archives of enslavement, the author illuminates...
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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
... and knowledge. 2016 Mapping a Slave Revolt
Visualizing Spatial History through the
Archives of Slavery
Vincent Brown
Historians must always contend with questions about the uses of archives
and archival...
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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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Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jessica Marie Johnson This article explores the role slavery’s eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Atlantic archive plays alongside the digital humanities’ drive for data. It situates critiques of the digital humanities in relation to decades-old debates about slavery that have reemerged with efforts...
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In the Trail of the Ship: Narrating the Archives of Illegal Slavery
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... slavery. The particular ways in which the Brazilian state and its British counterparts crafted these archives shed light on the narratives of freedom that they produced and caution us against replicating them in our own desire for satisfying stories of, for example, the Age of Emancipation and the triumph...
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From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru: BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Rachel Sarah O'Toole Duke University Press 2007 From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru
BECOMING A BRAN DIASPORA WITHIN SPANISH SLAVERY
On a Sunday of rest in 1662, three enslaved men from today’s Guinea- Rachel Sarah...
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Writing into a Void: REPRESENTING SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE NARRATIVE OF COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 67–90.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Spanish America
This essay engages the making of black identities under colonial Spanish Herman L.
American slavery, thereby confronting a set of questions related to the Bennett
meaning and representation of blackness, still a reigning concern of my
intellectual generation though many...
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History Hesitant
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Lisa Lowe This article explores under what conditions, with what methods, and in relation to what materials the question of recovery with respect to slavery and freedom can be posed. Accounts of Black Atlantic and African American slavery are central to understanding enslavement and the terrains...
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Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... work that has reflected on the melancholic attachments of black studies, as well as a growing interest in Afro-pessimism and the long afterlives of slavery, the spirit and force of these contributions have yet to shape our approach to the archive of black freedom, which is often nothing more than...
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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
... interactions in Ghana occur within a broader sociopolitical and cultural terrain that is not limited to heritage tourism. This terrain is configured through Ghana's own historical trajectory and narratives around slavery and race which, in turn, are informed and renegotiated by the country's relationship...
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Sir Hans Sloane's Milk Chocolate and the Whole History of the Cacao
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., 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...
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Out of the Home, into the House: Narratives and Strategies in Domestic Worker Legislative Campaigns
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and recognition in broader society, the narratives drew on long-standing cultural tropes of bad masters, individual victims, and the home as a site of care that have longer genealogies in slavery and colonialism. As earlier myths of domesticity masked labor relations in colonial and slave economies, so too...
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On Race, Violence, and So-Called Primitive Accumulation
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Nikhil Pal Singh In light of recent historiography that increasingly emphasizes the centrality of slavery to the origins of capitalism, this essay returns to Marx, especially Capital , volume 1, to rethink the relationships among capitalist abstraction, violence, and racial differentiation...
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The European Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the European Question is to identify a problem that is simultaneously epistemic (geographic, historiographical, ethnographic) and political. Today, in the extended aftermaths of orientalism, transatlantic slavery, colonialism, the Cold War, and European integration and amid the shocks of the global crisis...
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By Design: Remapping the Colonial Archive
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon In response to Vincent Brown's contribution to this roundtable, this article argues for the importance of attending to issues of design in digital humanities projects that aim to recover and reassess the archives of slavery. By Design...
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Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterword
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 153–161.
Published: 01 December 2015
...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...
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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
... of Texas’s prohibition of the term slavery (in addition to capitalism ) in its history textbooks, the conceptualization of postmodernism failed to adequately consider gender and racialization under what Cedric Robinson called racial capitalism. 27 Deleuze and Guattari’s schizophrenia famously produced...
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Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country?
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... as the apex of humanity in the modern West. The essay explores the relation between security and safety through the rubric of diaspora in two senses—first as a phenomenon of Western modernity via plantation-based New World slavery, which catalyzed the development of enduring categories of (non)personhood...
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Introduction: Reading for Infrastructure
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with dispositions that facilitate certain “forms of life,” even as they break and dismantle others. These essays cluster around three key themes that open onto the imbrication of “modern” infrastructures and racial capitalism: slavery, borders, and energy. The introduction also outlines the various conjugations...
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