...Jeffrey Allen Tucker This essay starts with two questions: how does one define science fiction, and what difference does race makes to science fiction? Posing these questions together suggests that they are related and provides an opportunity to consider Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984...

...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions...

...Jane Juffer Duke University Press 2006 Jane Juffer Why We Like to Lose: On Being a Cubs Fan in the Heterotopia of Wrigley Field My father has been a Chicago Cubs fan since before 1945, the last time the Cubs were...

...Daniel Itzkovitz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Daniel Itzkovitz Passing Like Me In his memoirs, Waldo Frank describes the com­ plex feelings about race he experienced while traveling through the South with Jean Toomer in 1922: I felt with the Negro. This empathy...

...Julie A. Carlson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Julie A. Carlson Like Me: An Invitation to Domestic/Tragedy All tragedy is a family matter. -Jean-Francois Lyotard, Political Writings To propose a volume on domestic/tragedy is to believe that Westerners can get somewhere...

...Lawrence J. Taylor Lawrence J. Taylor There Are Two Things that People Don t Like to Hear about Themselves : The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology M y title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Why Don t They Write Like Human Beings? The Case for Ideographic Languages Martin Bronfenbrenner We recommend a drastic reform of the Japanese writ­ ten language. Clearly the question of language reform is basic and urgent. It casts its shadow over every branch...

... forced a reckoning.” Kendi’s words, though likely meant to be a rhetorical device, are one of many examples of the ways that white people’s discovery of racism, anti-Blackness, and, perhaps, Blackness, in general, is often valorized as an indicator of progress toward the democratic ideals so many believe...

... me control over what happens to my body and what people make of it; gives me more freedom than they have to choose what my body/mind does in the world; makes me get younger instead of older. Like me, watercolor has its own opinion and illumination. Like me, it is mortal. When I use ink...

...Mridula Nath Chakraborty The obsession with “remains” in the wake of a devastated human century has been taken up in the work of European philosophers like Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jacqueline Rose and theorists like Marianne Hirsch and Kaja Silverman...

... years. The strategy and tactics of the movement are examined, and its rapid decline is explained. The final section outlines a number of challenges faced by contemporary debtors’ organizations like Strike Debt that emerge from the history of debt resistance and are illuminated by the story of El Barzón...

... into the process of endogenous financial hierarchization. The emergence of capitalist financial governance is conceptualized as a process whereby the state takes on bank-like properties and the capitalist state’s future-oriented institutional forms come to serve as constitutive aspects of economic value...

... deployed to fight power could avoid reproducing instances of this same power. Some, like Guy Debord, proposed a framework in which the revolutionary subject employs violence without becoming subject to such violence itself. Others, like Antonio Negri, sought to distinguish among various regimes of violence...

...Olúfė́mi Táíwò The idea of freedom rarely features at the present time in the discourse of African political philosophy. Yet, there was a time when concern with and extended discussions of freedom dominated African political philosophy. This explains, in part, how a country like Liberia, whose...

...Julie Peteet This article explores time as a lens through which to understand the lives of Palestinians under a colonial-settler occupation and policy of closure where time and mobility are weaponized as an integral part of expanding the state and winnowing the indigenous population. Time, like...

...Stephan Scheel The diagnosis of a migration crisis has prompted multiple processes of rebordering in Europe and beyond. These include the buildup of physical barriers like walls and fences, the tightening of asylum regimes, the expansion of biometric databases, and the enrollment of authoritarian...

... a caricature of the fascist as character type and so fails to comprehend fascism as a many-sided and contradictory movement. Adorno’s contribution to the volume reads like the Dialectic of Enlightenment without the dialectic. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Theodor Adorno fascism...

... resistance are likely to help recast extant interpretations and boundaries of collective action, as well as the meaning and scope of refugee struggles at the transnational level. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 refugee crisis collective action transnational networks of solidarity self...

... lives. Finally, I argue that care communities can help us fundamentally rethink disability as a need like any other need rather than an inherent identity. Eva Feder Kittay has argued that care relations are the foundation of civic society; in that case, disability and the care community that arises...

... us to see it less as a transformation of society than as the surmounting of the human order itself, of the world of values that are understood as immutable and whose violation always looks like lawlessness. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 revolution 1968 longue durée References...