...Stephanie Li In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way...

...Richard Thompson Ford Duke University Press 2007 Richard Thompson Ford What’s Queer about Race? ​When I announced my engagement to be mar- ried, almost everyone offered the obligatory con- gratulations and best wishes...

... Eastern” appearance was attacked. It is significant that the Cronulla race riots took place on the beach, a site where cultural differences have been contested in Australia's past—and present, in light of the war on terror. Cronulla is steeped in surfing tradition, and a cultural process known to surfers...

... as revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts...

... it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.” My essay argues that Obama's bows to Akihito followed by a slight bow to Chinese president Hu Jintao several months later should be seen as a displacement of what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls the “global idea of race,” where since the First Opium War Euro...

.... This essay articulates that frame. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Banner Stuart . 2005 . How the Indians Lost Their Land . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bashkow Ira . 2006 . The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World...

... . Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism . New York : Continuum . Gordon Jane Anna . 2006 . “ Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to the Social Scientific Study of Race .” In A Companion to African-American Studies , edited by Gordon Lewis R. Gordon Jane Anna , 279 – 304...

...Susan Gillman Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Susan Gillman Sure Identifiers : Race, Science, and the Law in Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson A book is the writer s secret life, the dark twin of a man. William Faulkner, Mosquitoes Soon after Pudd nhead Wilson was published in late...

...John C. Inscoe Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia John C. Inscoe Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, is a long way from the southern Ap­ palachians, and William Faulkner has never been noted as a chronicler of the mountain experience. But in at least...

...Martin Bernal Martin Bernal Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins My work Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is concerned with the formation of ancient Greece, which I believe is quite rightly seen as the largest single source...

... on clock faces to make the day stand still. —Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” “We are in the race of our lives. A race against time and against ourselves.” Gigantic billboards speak directly to the more than ten thousand attendees of the Glasgow climate summit in autumn 2021...

...Carl N. Degler The Revival in Reconstruction History A Review Essay of Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Carl N. Degler Although today biographers of John C. Calhoun do not quote the death­ bed words ascribed to him by his early biographer, Herman von Holst...

...Marlon B. Ross This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis...

... but a new feminist reflection on the possibilities of political praxis in the age of biopolitics. © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Ewa Płonowska Ziarek Bare Life on Strike: Notes on the Biopolitics of Race and Gender One of the most important contributions...

...John Spencer Bassett Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy : The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Bassett Affair John Spencer Bassett We are reprinting the following essay from the South Atlantic Quarterly of October 1903. It was written...

...Allen W. Trelease The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880’s . By Cartwright Joseph H. . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1976 . Pp. xiii , 286 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 261 The Triumph of Jim Crow...

...Bruce Clayton In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue . By Sosna Morton . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . Pp. xvi , 275 . $11.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly was widowed very young...

...Gerald W. Hartwig India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations Within the British Empire, 1890–1939 . By Gregory Robert G. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1971 . Pp. xviii , 555 . $24.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 165 life...

... the inextricably braided epistemological conditions that make marriage equality compatible with the abrogation of the Voting Rights Act and black political autonomy. And it challenges queer theory to take up race as an alternative contingent foundation for thinking about and engaging the time we collectively...

...Robert F. Durden Book Reviews 625 The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation s Capital. By Constance McLaughlin Green. Princeton: Prince­ ton University Press, 1967. Pp. xv, 389. $8.50. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for the first of her earlier two volumes on the history...