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...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...

... . 1996 . Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation . New York : Cambridge University Press . Blight David . 2011 . American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Brown Joseph, SJ. 1995 . “ I, John, Saw the Holy Number...

.... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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 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 two instances he does write of southern mountaineers...

...Martin Bernal Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 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...

... 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 Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 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...

... 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...

...Francis B. Simkins Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186£ Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART I. 1865-1869 With the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and the consequent collapse of the Confederate Government, the elaborate codes regulating negro life, labor, and society...

...Francis B. Simkins Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186> Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART II, 1869 AND AFTER The constitution of 1868 was also supplemented by laws concerning labor contracts, civil rights, suffrage, militia, and penalties for crime. An act of 1869...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII JANUARY Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly Race Relations in North Carolina: A Field Study of Moderate Opinion C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College For two months during the summer of 1920 the writer...

...Robert F. Durden Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902 . By Wynes Charles E. . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 1961 . Pp. ix , 164 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly of 1873 and were rent by bitter...

...Joseph Alexander Tillinghast Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Race Heterogeneity in a Democratic Society By Joseph Alexander Tillinghast, M. A., Professor of History and Economics in Converse College We of the South consider ourselves a part of that higher civ­ ilized life whose...

... Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Volume II. OCTOBER, 1903. Number 4. The South Atlantic Quarterly. Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy Whatever be his view of the negro problem the average Ameri­ can knows that in the last five years there has been a notable increase...