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The Excessive Present of Abolition: the Afterlife of Slavery in Law, Literature, and Performance
iii The Excessive Present of Abolition: The Afterlife of Slavery in Law, Literature, and Performance A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Jesse Aaron Goldberg May 2018 iv © 2018 Jesse Aaron Goldberg v THE EXCESSIVE PRESENT OF ABOLITION: THE AFTERLIFE OF SLAVERY IN LAW, LITERATURE, AND PERFORMANCE Jesse Aaron Goldberg, Ph.D. Cornell University The Excessive Present of Abolition reframes timescales of black radical imaginaries, arguing that Black Atlantic literary and performative texts and traditions resist periodization into past, present, and future. Their temporalities create an excessive present, in which the past persists alongside a future that emerges concurrently through forms of daily practice. I intervene in debates in black studies scholarship between a pessimistic view that points backward, arguing that blackness is marked by social death, and an optimistic view that points forward, insisting that blackness exceeds slavery’s reach. Holding both views in tension, I illuminate the “excess” that undermines this binary. The law’s violence in its rendering of black bodies as fungible exceeds its capacity for justice, and yet blackness exceeds the reach of the law, never reducible to only the state of abjection conjured by the structuring power of white supremacy. I theorize the excessive present through literature and performance in contrast to legal discourse – notably the 1783 British case Gregson v Gilbert, which is striking because it records a massacre of 131 people as an insurance case, not a murder case. The 1781 Zong Massacre recurs through each of my chapters, via J.M.W. -
The Dragons Fire
1 The Dragons Fire “When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out” Ho Chi Minh THE NATIONAL JERICHO MOVEMENT NEWSLETTER in Fierce Determination Since 1996 August 15-Sept 15, 2020, Vol. 30 http://www.thejerichomovement.com P.O. Box 2164 Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 Steering Committee Advisory Board 1. Chair: Jihad Abdulmumit 1. Paulette Dauteuil 2. Secretary: Adam Carpinelli 2. Anne Lamb 3. Treasurer: Ashanti Alston 3. Frank Velgara 4. Fund Raising Chairperson: A’isha Mohammad 4. Kazi Toure 5. Dragon Fire Newsletter Editor: A’isha Mohammad 5. Jorge Chang 6. Tekla Johnson Revolutionary Greetings, Welcome to our National Jericho Movement Newsletter. Thank you to all of our members and affiliates who contribute critical information regarding our Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War as well as updates on activities, events and actions. Moving forward, we stand in fierce determination and solidarity to free our remaining Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War still languishing behind the dungeon walls. Much work has been done by Jericho and other organizations, and there is still much more work to do. With 20 years behind us and much work ahead, Jericho is growing and is taking on new projects and missions. Our shared vision is that we will reach a time in this country (and others) wherein there will be no more Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War. We envision the day when they all will walk free and into their family’s arms-who have been waiting for decades. We hope you join us in making this a reality. “Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution." Fallen Black Panther Field Marshal, Comrade George L. -
From Mass Education to Mass Incarceration." a History of Education for the Many: from Colonization and Slavery to the Decline of US Imperialism
Malott, Curry. "From Mass Education to Mass Incarceration." A History of Education for the Many: From Colonization and Slavery to the Decline of US Imperialism. London,: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 165–174. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 27 Sep. 2021. <http:// dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350085749.ch-10>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 27 September 2021, 09:00 UTC. Copyright © Curry Malott 2021. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 10 From Mass Education to Mass Incarceration Introduction: Connection to the Previous Chapter In Chapter 9 we saw the systemic crisis of realization and the mobilization of teachers and activists in response. In the present chapter we explore the expansion of education in the post-Second World War era as capitalism’s labor needs shifted with the continued development of labor-saving technologies, which coincided with the emergence of a new era in mass mobilizations spearheaded by the African American Civil Rights movement and its leaders. New crises of realization develop as the labor-saving technologies eventually render large segments of the US working-class redundant. Unlike previous manifestations of racism designed to either justify the super- exploitation of slavery or maintain a form of the plantation system through prisoner-leasing schemes after Reconstruction, the particular form of “super- predator” anti-Blackness of the post-Second World War mass incarceration era was a response to Black workers especially being expelled from production as a by-product of automation (Puryear 2012). -
The Dragons Fire
1 The Dragons Fire “When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out” Ho Chi Minh THE NATIONAL JERICHO MOVEMENT NEWSLETTER in Fierce Determination Since 1996 July 15-August 15, 2020, Vol. 29 http://www.thejerichomovement.com P.O. Box 2164 Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 Steering Committee Advisory Board 1. Chair: Jihad Abdulmumit 1. Paulette Dauteuil 2. Secretary: Adam Carpinelli 2. Anne Lamb 3. Treasurer: Ashanti Alston 3. Frank Velgara 4. Fund Raising Chairperson: A’isha Mohammad 4. Kazi Toure 5. Dragon Fire Newsletter Editor: A’isha Mohammad 5. Jorge Chang 6. Tekla Johnson Revolutionary Greetings, Welcome to our National Jericho Movement Newsletter. Thank you to all of our members and affiliations who contribute critical information regarding our Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War as well as updates on activities, events and actions. Moving forward, we stand in fierce determination and solidarity to free our remaining Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War still languishing behind the dungeon walls. Much work has been done by Jericho and other organizations, and there is still much more work to do. With 20 years behind us and much work ahead, Jericho is growing and is taking on new projects and missions. Our shared vision is that we will reach a time in this country (and others) wherein there will be no more Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War. We envision the day when they all will walk free and into their family’s arms-who have been waiting for decades. We hope you join us in making this a reality. 2 “Now the torch bearers who articulated the logic of struggle against the oppressor nation have either been confined in prison cells for a long time or have a comfortable job. -
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A Significant Challenge to DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY Conventional Revolutionary Thought by Mumia Abu-Jamal Excepts From a Review by Steve Bloom In the wake of the revelations by As for Congress, it may do some things Maroon the Implacable--The Collected refused to adapt to white settler-colo- intelligence contractor Edward Smowden, well, but oversight ain’t one of them. L. Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz, edited nial society, and disaffected whites who that the US government reads billions of Fletcher Prouty, an Air Force officer who by Quincy Saul and Fred Ho, 2013, dropped out of that society. Creating an American’s records, and noted tens of worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on PM Press, Oakland, CA., 294 pages, $20. independent culture within territories millions of Americans’ cell phone records, various CIA missions, tells of meeting considered by others to be unsuitable for apologists for the PATRIOT Act’s draconi- with a Senator to brief him on undercover Reading this book was a rare experi- habitation. These maroon communities an snooping program rushed to defend this operations. According to Prouty, the Sen- ence: both revelatory and challenging. battled for decades against all attempts to governmental intrusion, by citing court ator told him before the briefing began, There are ideas here that you have not wipe them out, providing a refuge for es- and Congressional approval and oversight. “Keep it short. What I don’t know about heard before and that deserve to be caping slaves and a fighting force that was It sounds good, but what does it really it, won’t hurt me.” In other words, don’t engaged and discussed in a serious way. -
National Jericho Newsletter Volume 28
1 The Dragons Fire “When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out” Ho Chi Minh THE NATIONAL JERICHO MOVEMENT NEWSLETTER in Fierce Determination Since 1996 June 15-July 15, 2020, Vol. 27 http://www.thejerichomovement.com P.O. Box 2164 Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 Steering Committee Advisory Board 1. Chair: Jihad Abdulmumit 1. Paulette Dauteuil 2. Secretary: Adam Carpinelli 2. Anne Lamb 3. Treasurer: Ashanti Alston 3. Frank Velgara 4. Fund Raising Chairperson: A’isha Mohammad 4. Kazi Toure 5. Dragon Fire Newsletter Editor: A’isha Mohammad 5. Jorge Chang Revolutionary Greetings, Welcome to our National Jericho Movement Newsletter. Thank you to all of our members and affiliations who contribute critical information regarding our Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War as well as updates on activities, events and actions. Moving forward, we stand in fierce determination and solidarity to free our remaining Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War still languishing behind the dungeon walls. Much work has been done by Jericho and other organizations, and there is still much more work to do. With 20 years behind us and much work ahead, Jericho is growing and is taking on new projects and missions. Our shared vision is that we will reach a time in this country (and others) wherein there will be no more Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War. We envision the day when they all will walk free and into their family’s arms-who have been waiting for decades. We hope you join us in making this a reality. 2 “Now the torch bearers who articulated the logic of struggle against the oppressor nation have either been confined in prison cells for a long time or have a comfortable job. -
Stewardship: the Joy of Giving
Stewardship: The Joy of Giving Stewardship: The Joy of Giving “Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies . We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our congregation, our community, and our faith.” —adapted from Kennon L. Callahan Fia B. Scheyer Ruth Lewellen-Dix Pat Hoertdoerfer, Developmental Editor Unitarian Universalist Association Boston Copyright © 2000 by the Unitarian Universalist Association, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Unit One: Stewardship for Primary Children Session 1 What Is Stewardship? Session 2 Who Are Our Stewards? What Is Our Legacy? Session 3 How Can We Be of Service? Session 4 Doing an Act of Stewardship Session 5 A Celebration of Commitment Unit Two: Stewardship for Intermediate Children Session 1 What Is Stewardship? Session 2 Who Are Our Stewards? What Is Our Legacy? Session 3 How Can We Be of Service? Session 4 Doing an Act of Stewardship Session 5 A Celebration of Commitment Unit Three: Stewardship for Youth Session 1 Three T’s of Stewardship Session 2 Our Stewardship Legacy Session 3 Values in Giving Session 4 How We Give Session 5 A Celebration of Commitment Unit Four: Stewardship for Adults Session 1 Stewardship: Definition and Mission Session 2 Our Stewards and Our Legacy Session 3 Time, Talent, and Treasure Session 4 Stewardship, Skills, and Action Session 5 A Celebration of Commitment 3 Contents All Units: Session Five Celebrations of Commitment Intergenerational Worship Service Children’s Chapel Service Leader Resources and Handouts Leader Resource 1: Overview Leader Resource 2: Stories of UU Stewards: John Haynes Holmes Leader Resource 3: Stories of UU Stewards: Gwendolyn Willis Leader Resource 4: Stories of UU Stewards: Whitney Young Leader Resource 5: UU Timeline Leader Resource 6: Mary Livermore Leader Resource 7: John H. -
Making a New World David and the Revolution
Making a New World David and the Revolution 'Never was any such event so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen', was how the great historian Alexis de Tocqueville characterized the coming of the French Revolution. From a distance of more than two hundred years, we can see that the Revolution was the result of a series of social, economic and political pressures which, though manageable in themselves, had the cumulative effect of toppling the monarchy and chang- ing the course of French and European history. By the mid-1780s the whole framework of the ancien regime seemed close to breakdown. As a legacy of its expensive involvement in the American War of Independence (1778-83), 70 Let's Hope that France was facing bankruptcy and the government was forced this Game Ends Soon, to borrow more and more money to cover its deficits. The 1789 . Coloured public was also aware of how the lavish and extravagant engraving ; 36-5 - 24cm, expenditure of the court added to the nation's debts, and they 141e" 9 1 zin were outraged at the waste. Tensions also existed between the aristocracy and the emerging middle classes, with the latter group trying hard to gain social acceptance and a rise in their influence and status . Of course these issues of politics and class were of little importance to the poor, the vast majority of whom lived in degradation and misery trying to scratch a living from the land. They laid the blame for their misfortunes squarely at the feet of the Church and the aristocracy which claimed crip- pling tithes and feudal dues (70). -
ACTIVITY: PRISON WRITING RESPONSE in This Activity, You Have the Opportunity to Select Any Piece of Prison Writing. in Your
ACTIVITY: PRISON WRITING RESPONSE In this activity, you have the opportunity to select any piece of prison writing. In your 2-3 page response, you will want to give a little background on who wrote the piece, their intended audience, and the context in which they are or were writing. Your response should be open and honest and you should feel free to make connections to personal and social issues going on today. Imprisoned writers to choose from: ● Choose any writing by: Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, Jalil Muntaqim, Albert Woodfox, Mutulu Shakur, Sundiata Acoli, Veronza Bowers, Alvaro Luna Hernandez, George Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Leonard Peltier, Joy Powell, Russell Maroon Shoatz, David Gilbert, Stephen Wilson, [since freed:] Albert Woodfox, Janine Phillips Africa, Jannet Holloway Africa, Herman Bell, Anthony Bottom, Doruba Bin Wahad, Marshall Eddie Conway, Oscar López Rivera, Laura Whitehorn; [since passed away:] Safiya Bukhari, Geronimo ji Jaga [Elmer Pratt], Raul R. Salinas, Marilyn Buck, Claudia Jones, Angelo Herndon, Austin Reed. ● Or, find and pick your own piece of writing by anyone who has been imprisoned! Primary source archives: ● CCWP, The Fire Inside, Archive: https://womenprisoners.org/the-fire-inside-archive/ ● American Prison Writing Archive: http://apw.dhinitiative.org/ ● Freedom Archives: https://freedomarchives.org/ Secondary sources for reference: ● AAIHS Forum on the Imprisoned Radical Tradition: https://www.aaihs.org/online-forum- the-imprisoned-black-radical-tradition/ ● Joy James, ed., Imprisoned Intellectuals Write on Life, Liberation and Rebellion (2004) ● Dan Berger, The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States (2014) . -
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Abu-Jamal’s writing tends to be forceful, outraged, and humorous, but he also engages in the bombastic approaches of another era … [T]he author offers powerful columns on diverse subjects ranging from the plight of black farmers to the crushing of dissent after 9/11. Some remain all too relevant—e.g., those decrying systemic police brutality as seen in flashpoints from Rodney King to Ferguson or the rise of racial disparities in drug sentencing. Abu-Jamal meditates on central figures in the black political narrative, ranging from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Trayvon Martin … As a collection that spans from 1982 to 2014, these topical essays testify to the effects of incarceration on mind and spirit. While his prose has sharpened over time, Abu-Jamal remains enraged and pessimistic about an America that, in his view, remains wholly corrupt: ‘[Blacks] know from bitter experience that while Americans may say one thing, they mean something quite different.’” —Kirkus Reviews “Hope and the seeds of revolution can come from the depths of isolation. Writing from his cell on death row, where he was held in solitary confinement for nearly 30 years, Abu-Jamal has long been a loud and clear voice for all who suffer injustice, racism, and poverty. Edited by Fernandez, this selection of 100 previously unpublished essays includes a foreword by Cornel West.” —Evan Karp, SF Weekly “The power of his voice is rooted in his defiance of those determined to silence him. Magically, Mumia’s words are clarified, purified by the toxic strata of resistance they must penetrate to reach us. -
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Theatre | Music | Comedy | Dance | Cinema Art | Creative Learning | Food & Drink The biggest arts venue in Kendal Spring 2020 breweryarts.co.uk | 01539 725133 Massive Wagons - Fri 6 & Sat 7 Mar 02 Spring 2020 Box Office: 01539 725133 For full listings and to book online: breweryarts.co.uk Follow us on twitter: @BACKendal | facebook: @TheBreweryArtsCentreKendal Theatre 03 When Darkness Seeps Emergence - Thu 5 Mar Emergence Tour 2020: Sun 26 Jan & Sat 1 Feb Emergence Dance Warehouse | Starts 8pm Thu 5 Mar | Starts 8pm | Theatre £7 / £6 U25 & Unwaged £13 / £10 U25 & Unwaged Sun 2 Feb | Starts 8pm Emergence, the postgraduate Tickets £7 | Kendal Library dance company of Joss Arnott £7 / £6 U25 & Unwaged Dance and the University of On a cold, dark winter’s night Salford, returns with a new cohort, join our team of talented Future two new works and the chance Creatives and experience four to see a reimagining of one of adapted tales by Edgar Allan Arnott’s acclaimed productions. Poe, if you dare... Night of the Living Dead Crusaders by Frances Poet The Price of Land Ladies That Bus - Tue 11 & Wed 12 Feb Remix: imitating the dog Wed 5 & Thu 6 Feb Presented by Geoff Cox Tue 3 & Wed 4 Mar Theatre | Starts 8pm Directed by Kevin Dyer Starts 7.30pm | Theatre | £18.50 £7 / £6 U25 & Unwaged Sat 22 Feb | Theatre £15.50 U25 & Unwaged As part of National Theatre Starts 8pm | £10 Seven strangers take refuge Connections, Brewery Youth Eight voices, eight stories, eight from flesh eating ‘ghouls’ in an Theatre 15+ bring you this working lives, eight moments isolated farmhouse. -
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