...Shaun Myers This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post–civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time , the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More...

.... In that way, I argue that Love is as much a commentary on the civil rights era as it is on the post-civil rights, 9/11 era in which it was published. Thus, I contend that Morrison’s project in Love is both about reconciling nostalgia with a recognition of the horrors of the past and about considering, albeit...

...Aida Hussen This essay explores the psychic dimensions of post-civil rights black representation. I ask, what kinds of desire and identification, what vision of history and futurity, and what lost objects and forms of grief, drive nationalist approaches to black literature? In turn, what affective...

... in the United States is articulated with the present-day constellation of neoliberal antistatism and post–civil rights “color-blind” discourse. His argument is developed through an analysis of the U.S. vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, the Supreme Court ruling on City...

... into supporters and opponents of BLM. In highlighting this split in whiteness as symptomatic of a post-civil rights crisis of white sovereignty, the article suggests Black populism is now a significant dimension of entrenching that crisis. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press...

..., whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of “joy-mad” race consolidation against Jim Crow in the mid-1930s to a totem for color-blind racial transcendence in the post–civil rights moment of the mid-1980s. Asking how...

... compelling alternatives to post–Civil Rights Black assimilation in the United States. Douglas and the other artists filled the paper’s pages every week with drawings, cartoons, and posters that empowered people who were historically relegated to subservient representations in mainstream media. Douglas’s...

.... The N-phrase can be read as reinscribing a post–civil rights archive of repetition in the police killings of black civilians and the racial policing of black populations in a “white citizenship democracy” as previously suggested by Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. DuBois. It argues...

... Huey Freeman, eager to leave what Todd Boyd has glibly called “that civil rights shit” (Boyd 2002: xix) behind and get on with the business of post– civil rights progressive politics, it haunts the heuristic mise en scène of con- temporary narrative to teach, to aid, to instruct, and to change...

... . Hooker Juliet . 2017 . “What Black Lives Matter Can Learn from Black Activists in Latin America.” NACLA Report on the Americas 49 , no. 1 : 34 – 35 . Iton Richard . 2008 . In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era . New York...

... African American Literature: Post Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation . New York : New York University Press . Lorde Audre . (1988) 1996 . “ A Burst of Light .” The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals . London : Pandora . McMillan Cottom Tressie...

... by Bernard Boxill, Tommie Shelby, Cathy Cohen, and Michael Dawson. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Paul C. Taylor A Future for Africana (Post-)Analytic Philosophy Introduction ​Postsoul, post–civil rights, postblack, postcolo...

... affiliations tend to be skeptical about whether and to what extent what they call “cultural politics” might offer a discern- able threat to uneven power relations. The sense that African Americans of the “post–civil rights generation”17 are not much concerned with social justice prompts Adolph Reed...

... Atlantic Quarterly analyzes post–civil rights literature, theater, and visual culture, from Ernest Gaines’s 1971 novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitt­ man, to Katori Hall’s 2011 play, The Mountaintop, to analyze the connections between narrative, historical memory, gender, and sexual normativity...

... and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair.” Political Theory 44 , no. 4 : 448 – 69 . Iton Richard . 2008 . In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era . New York : Oxford University Press...

... of grappling with current perceptions of white loss is that dur- ing the post–civil rights era black politics has been constrained by neoliberal- ism and political pragmatism; it has been predominantly oriented toward pal- atable forms of liberal reform. The paradox of contemporary white loss is thus...

...-intuitive engagement with the violence of the plantation imagined as functioning in the Civil Rights and post Civil Rights eras. In reading with a plantation futures blues approach, I seek to finger the jagged grain of narratives of Black enslavement, emancipation, and carcerality as unfolding, unfinished...

... discursive evidence of racism (Fureudi 1999). Consequently, what came to shape the Black politics of the US post civil rights era were racial antagonisms contextualized by assertions of the silent yet palpable protocol of white supremacy and denials by the white citizen body politic that such a protocol...

... discursive circulation by the 1960s, was rarely defined. Their approach can be read as an incipient critique of the Eurocentric conception of racism, with its overemphasis on ideology and radical neglect of a governmental conception of racism, particularly in a post–civil rights and postcolonial era...

... Fahima . 2021 . Maroon Choreography . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Iton Richard . 2008 . In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Jameson Fredric . 1989 . “ Marxism...