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Duke University Press
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“Courage or Foolhardiness”: Talking Aimé Césaire with Alex Gil
“This way of going about prophecy sadly replaces the historical fact of Black victory with a timeless failed rebellion. Too bleak, if you ask me.”
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Borders Are War by Other Means
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.
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With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.
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The Future of Tech: Black Boxes or Clear Communication?
To optimize what’s happening in the world of digital technology, we’ve got to understand the unspoken rules of that world.
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What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power From Across the Globe
When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?
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Can Literature Cure Law? Should It?
The two disciplines, law and literature, may converge creatively, part amicably, and go their ways dispensing their respective forms of redress.
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“Living in and as Refusal”: Eric Stanley on Anti-Trans/Queer Violence
“While ungovernability takes many paths, here it approximates living in and as refusal.”
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Crossings into Indigenous Palestine
“If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, “Their oil would become tears.”
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Where is the Archive, Anyway?: A Conversation about Empire and Filipinx Studies
“I love the moments where your books really linger on their encounters with power.”
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“Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar
“The survival of the world depends on the gendered work of subsistence and reproduction, carried out predominantly by women in the global South.”
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Heal Thyself?
How do current social and political arrangements limit our opportunities for feeling better?
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Protean Environment and Political Possibilities
As the planet warms, environmental destruction obliges us to revise the technoscience expertise and institutions once based on colonial legacies.
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Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident
When did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising?
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Lorgia García Peña on “Translating Blackness”
In this latest episode of the Writing Latinos podcast, we discuss how some Afro-Latinas argue that the US census needs to accept that Latinos are not a race.
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When Panama Came to Brooklyn
“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”
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Failure’s Gifts
Even the most successful authors—like Phillis Wheatley and W. E. B. Du Bois—fail to publish all they’d like. What can that reveal about literature?
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Reading “Lote”
Shola von Reinhold’s novel is central to any reckoning with the politics of the archive, not to mention contemporary literature itself.
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How to Undocument a Narrative
For decades, undocumented Americans have been asked to tell their stories, in the hopes that this would galvanize political change. Did it work?
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Until We Meet on the Dance Floor Again: A Playlist
Disco is much more than what they say it was. Grounded in multivocal Blacknesses—funk and gospel, rock and roll and rhythm and blues—with new technologies and new arrangements, the disco we follow here contains multitudes, no part of which is corny or anachronistic. Our disco later came to be called club music, then house (in…
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Unkind Laughter
“Consider the laughter on October 15, 1982—after 1,000 people died from complications related to AIDS—at the Reagan White House press briefing.”
