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...Willis Jenkins The discipline of religious studies often misses how climate change drives shifts across its domains of interpretation by treating it as a special object. This essay depicts how cultural stress from anthropogenic changes in planetary systems may be illuminated through what cultures...

...-sponsored visual arts movement that flourished under the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. N'Diaye, as one of the first instructors at an art academy founded at Senghor's request, is often featured in the beginnings of this narrative, only to be marginalized when he chooses to relocate...

... hand, there are rich resources of critical thought embedded in Pentecostal practice; on the other hand, globalized Pentecostalism often seems quite comfortable with globalized capitalism. This essay disinters the implicit, critical elements that are embedded in Pentecostal spirituality while also...

...Okwui Enwezor There is a dual narrative that is often taken to be characteristic of modernity: the first is the idea of its unique Europeanness, and the second is its translatability into non-European cultures. This narrative argues for the mutability of modernity, thus permitting its export...

... 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...

...Lynne Haney Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers and court observations of child-support hearings, this article explores the state’s role in the massive accumulation of child-support debt. Arguing that this role is too often hidden from view, the article demystifies how much...

...Sam C. Tenorio This article examines the spatially destructive practices of the 2020 BLM protest, which can be thought of in two often overlapping classes: broad property destruction—such as the looting of stores and burning of buildings—and the targeted toppling of monuments. Specifically...

... the North Atlantic Left has often been too quick to assume the universalism of its own thought. It suggests that contemporary attempts to return to a universal emancipatory horizon have not taken full measure of this history, a history that has not always been innocent of race. It concludes that we need...

... in this, the largest and most cosmopolitan city of the former Confederacy. Postwar regulation made no racial distinctions among women in the trade, and prostitutes’ lives were thus often remarkably similar. Women worked and resided in the same parts of town, even on the same notorious block; faced similarly explosive...

... ambivalently, how best to understand the present. Ultimately, my analysis suggests that Love illuminates our understanding of black leadership and the civil rights movement throughout the twentieth century by engaging the long-lasting and often problematic legacy of civil rights struggles in black communities...

...Sharad Chari A moral frenzy surrounds Chinese and Indian capital in Africa, particularly in resource and mineral extraction. There are some good reasons for this fear and loathing about “African extraction”—the plundering of Africa and its resources—as the related processes all too often offer few...

...Andrew M. Bauer; Mona Bhan Ongoing discussions of welfare and human viability that focus on state responsibility to provide care and services rarely consider how new sources of vulnerability are emerging within the context of climate change. Scholars attentive to these processes often use...

...Andrew Pendakis This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often invoked to specify the economic function of the entrepreneur, this ostensibly descriptive category...

... health policies, this essay demonstrates a split discourse on welfare—understood as care of the social body—that at once privatizes child care and continues to treat poor, often black and brown, parents as dangerous caregivers. Characterized by vociferous polemics about where, with whom, and for how long...

...Bently Spang This essay is my account of the early stages of the creation of the 2014 drawing and video installation titled On Fire . Using a detailed and unmediated first-person point of view, I attempt to humanize a tragic event that the viewer often fails to identify with and process fully when...

... the race icon achieves its discursive power for both the social elites who often construct such iconography and for the masses who are wrongly presumed simply to consume it, the article investigates the rhetoric, aesthetics, and ideology of claiming iconic status based on access to and transference...

...Joel Beinin Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious...

... are not merely technological infrastructure; they transform social and spatial relations by altering land use, property relations, and patterns of work and consumption. The social history of pipelines is a paradoxical tale of the dispossession of local communities and their often coercive integration into wider...

... from political, public, and popular deliberations over racial inequality and social justice and argues that anger and rage often expressed through BLM activism are appropriate responses to circumstances of entrenched and pervasive racism. I contend that the expression of these so-called negative...

...John MacKay The Russian Revolution, so often monumentalized as a singular event—not least by the Bolsheviks themselves—was an inherently plural happening, involving the disparate actions and aspirations of peasants, workers, national minorities, and many others. Although early Soviet cinema...