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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"racial slavery"”.
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
… A poetics of bafflement is foregrounded by racial slavery and diaspora formations that inform contemporary racial antagonisms. The visual work of Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, and Mickalene Thomas, if read through a poetics of bafflement, engages blackness differently and conceptualizes new …
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
… code', that must be understood as deriving from racial slavery. This thought enterprise is explored in relation to South African histories of slavery to re-claim the concept of “social death” as inaugurating the structure of Blackness in Southern Africa. By suggesting how it is the absolute …
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To be Black in this Skin: Anti-Black Racism and How Heterosexual Black Men Engage with HIV Vulnerability in Toronto
… with HIV?; and 3) How do enduring modalities of racial slavery structure how Black folks experience HIV? In analyzing how Black subjects come into being or, more precisely, struggle to be realized, I critically reflect on the writings of Afro-pessimist and Afro-optimist thinkers. In doing so, I …
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Slavery and Sickness in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1803-1860
… society’s most important institution: racial slavery. Inequality and exploitation were woven into the fabric of slave society, but the growth of the Lower Mississippi Valley’s plantation economy did not take place within a vacuum. The environmental, demographic, and economic conditions …
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Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945
… period (1883-1910), Koreans constructed imagined racial inferiors, especially Blacks and American Indians, without their corporeal presence, and in doing so centrally shaped Korean racial identity from its beginning. By proposing the concept of the colonially vulnerable to call attention to the …