...Carolyn Porter Carolyn Porter Are We Being Historical Yet? ^Rie lead article in a recent pmla tells us that A specter is haunting criticism the specter of a new historicism. In contrast to Marx and Engels, who proposed to publish the views of Communists themselves, so as to counter a nursery...

...Christopher Paul Harris Building on the work of Hortense Spillers and others, this article uses the “yet to come” of Black culture as a lens to read the political and cultural interventions of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). The “yet to come” also serves as an avenue to consider how, on what...

... of Black abolitionist praxis in Britain as a political posture rooted in an acknowledgment of abolition’s unfinished work and its import in the present in anticipation of free Black futures yet to come. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 Black abolitionism...

...Grant Farred 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Grant Farred The Not-Yet Counterpartisan: A New Politics of Oppositionality It is rather hard...

...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...

... to a world-not-yet-made, cultivating nascent democratic publics who, as yet, lack a world in which they can survive. References Adalet Begüm . 2022 . “ Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon .” Political Theory 50 , no. 1 : 5 – 31...

...Julie Livingston; Andrew Ross Consumer lore in the United States celebrates the automobile as a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the crossroads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility—the debt economy...

... lawyers but unknown to international law? How can the innocent prove their innocence? Yet this categorical reconstruction of identity is not unprecedented. To claim a history for these conditions of disfigured personhood and civil incapacity, I summon the cautionary haunt of due process in slave...

... to name his condemned man or to give any specifics about his crime. Yet, the first-person perspective develops an undeniable power: getting inside the consciousness of someone about to have his head cut off by the state makes the obscenity of execution powerfully evident. Hugo's novel serves as a starting...

..., the deterrent consequences of a sentence of death will outweigh the punishment's deleterious consequences from a utilitarian perspective; and so on. Yet, even the most cursory examination of the cultural, legal, and political roles of capital punishment as it is actually institutionalized...

... correspondents compared the Moroccan Sahara to El Paso and New Mexican pueblos. Yet, comparisons are also the rubric of critical colonial studies that unmask forms of exceptionalism and colonial rule. The comparative maneuvers that constitute American Orientalism unwittingly invite comparisons of colonial power...

...Sharon Marcus Homosexuality and domesticity are both considered eminently Victorian, yet both are also considered to have been mutually exclusive during the nineteenth century. Scholars have conceptualized domesticity as an ideology that made the heterosexual family normative and homosexuality...

... generated by the vulnerability of face-to-face contact. Yet vulnerability produces both compassion and rage, says Levinas, and hence the question: if the openness of the face calls one both to compassion and to rage, why compassion by some and rage by others? Hate crimes against Latinos are on the rise...

... the protagonist is in mourning, and using that remembrance to judge or refuse the present. The film suggests that the standpoint of the present must finally prevail, and yet that there is also a value in the characteristically crotchety (that is, critical) attitude toward the present that stems logically from...

... and autobiographical element to the legacy of political incarceration in Sudan. Yet, most of these memoirs tend to be in written form, and rarely have they been combined with visual representation or a stand-alone visual artistic work. The essay focuses on one such conspicuous exception, by zeroing in on a series...

... it with a brief review of some of the wider ethnographic literature, this essay argues that the contemporary Pentecostal/charismatic global resurgence bears the mark of two distinct yet intertwined modalities of subjectivity and praxis, church and revival , each of which are similar, respectively...

...Chris Cunneen The processes of criminalization lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring...

... been accustomed to think about using the concept of “agency.” Theory now has moved slightly beyond this concept; yet a penumbra of anxiety about agency colors the reception of contemporary theory. A more direct questioning, not of the state of theories of agency exactly, but of the role of their ghosts...

... homeland security border checkpoint between the United States, Canada, and the Mohawk Nation, titled The Third Bank of the River , draws on the Guswentah or Two Row Wampum underscoring the problematic yet ongoing assertion of Haudenosaunee sovereignty. A link is made between the work of these artists...

...Eithne Luibhéid “Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands...