...Kelly Miller Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Is the American Negro to Remain Black or Become Bleached? Kelly Miller Howard University Is the Negro race to preserve its physical identity or to be bleached white within any calculable time with which we need now concern ourselves...

...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...

... Democracy’s Remains: The Hermeneutic Historiography of Black Reconstruction ​This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 ([1935] 1992), sees as the possibilities of black being...

... together territories of operation that cut across technologies of bordering even as borders remain obdurate and exclusionary. Here the South is a space within and beyond capture, a periphery that can appear anywhere. What becomes important, then, are the relays between those who venture off, seek...

...Eve Dunbar In July 2018, the New York Times reported on the remains of some ninety-five people discovered at a construction site in the Houston, Texas, suburb of Sugar Land. The archaeologists called in to identify the remains determined that they likely belonged to African American laborers who...

...Roy M. Huhndorf; Shari M. Huhndorf In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the largest indigenous land claims settlement in U.S history. Intended to resolve disputes over land and to spur economic development, ANCSA remained silent on issues of indigenous...

... is continually forced to remain exterior to the options that are presented to us on a daily basis, but where there is also the desire to invent a new political radicalism in the here and now—rupturing the given order of the contemporary neoliberal dispositif . By analyzing the positions of “indefinite...

... after the original crisis of neoliberal order, this discussion remains at a boiling point. Does neoliberalism live on in new forms? Can those same people who put its legitimacy into question propose a different order? What can we call this current phase, which, since 2003 has been filled...

...Antonio Negri The soviets (or workers’ councils) served as a democratic form of political organization in the years preceding and in the course of the Bolshevik Revolution. These democratic forms were eventually subordinated in the Soviet Union but they remain today an effective model for imagining...

... the song might inhabit it. We wonder what it might mean for all of this to remain unresolved, and how to remain attuned to that irresolution as a form of planning social life. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Jazz post-punk dread soul musical labor References Balibar...

...Samuel P. Nelson; Catherine Prendergast The commonplace justification of academic freedom, described in terms of professional norms and practices of the professoriate, often cites advancing the public interest in knowledge creation as a key basis for academic freedom. Yet the public's role remains...

... alone, God descends to permeate our entire personal being, body and soul. Second, liturgy completes thought because the governing of our senses by reason was disturbed by the fall of Adam. Disordered reason cannot recover this ordering, but our senses remain relatively innocent, like animals...

...Lorie M. Graham; Siegfried Wiessner Indigenous peoples' concept of sovereignty is intimately linked to their culture, their language, and their land. These three essential components of their self-determination have been, and remain, under existential threat. This essay explores how international...

... of the photographic medium. In the forthcoming “Alētheia,” Copy, Archive, Signature , and perhaps most especially Athens, Still Remains , Derrida develops a powerful reading of the unique temporality of photography and its essential relationship to memory, ruin, and mourning. This essay argues that these recent...

... commonly held notions of Aboriginal demise on a distant frontier. But if the Australia House protests remain impressive for their ingenuity and haunting symbolism, newspaper reports of his testimony in court in 1929 finally provided the publicity he sought for the Aboriginal cause. © 2011 Duke University...

..., and politics. To achieve this recognition Margolles works in medico-legal and forensic spaces, creating aesthetic pieces from the remains of crime. This essay examines a number of artworks by Margolles as she deals in death scenes that exceed the boundaries of “typical” criminological, political, or juridical...

..., groundlessness, and incompleteness subverts liberal political theory's identification of politics with the formalism of law, the preservation of order, and elected administrations. However, despite engaging questions of institution, hegemony, and antagonism, poststructuralist political theory currently remains...

... for systems of knowledge to capture. Precisely insofar as pleasure thus may appear incompatible with philosophical or political seriousness, it remained a vital concern in Foucault’s thinking. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Tim Dean The Biopolitics of Pleasure Pleasure...

... articulation of the “fear” underlying the loss of human autonomy as a political problem, including the ways in which Foucault’s efforts to theorize resistance and the refusal of normative structures of social organization are still forceful or remain inadequate. Many of these authors are concerned...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated...