1st Edition

Diverse Unfreedoms The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages

Edited By Sarada Balagopalan, Cati Coe, Keith Michael Green Copyright 2020
220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The legacies of plantation slavery continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the diverse forms of unfreedom that mark our present. Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through these legacies of unfreedom via a more entangled and multidirectional model of what makes for historical change and continuity in practices and relationships of subjugation. This volume troubles the stark... Read more

1. Introduction: Diverse Unfreedoms —The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages

Keith Michael Green, Cati Coe, and Sarada Balagopalan

Part I: Transitions

2. A "Sentiment of Humanity"?: Child Protection, Surveillance, and State Guardianship in Senegal, 1895-1910

Kelly M. Duke Bryant

3. Benevolent Complicity: The Detention of Unaccompanied Children in the United States

Lauren Heidbrink

Part II: Legacies

4. Post-Apartheid Nostalgia and its Images of Common Sense

Zamansele Nsele

5. "You are My Slave!": Adjacent Relations of Unfreedom in Care Work and the Racialization of West African Care Workers

Cati Coe

6. Abolitionist Action Heroes: Operation Underground Railroad and the Material Cultures of Philanthropy

Meredith A. Bak

Part III: Reimaginings

7. Disenchanting Freedom in Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron

Margarita Castromán

8. Freedom as Staying: Race, Religious History, and Carceral Ethnography in Chicago

Kai Parker and R. Noll

9. The Blood That Has Dried in the Codes: Sovereignty, Right, and the (Im)Possibilities of Freedom

Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

"Arrival Day"

Eve Ewing

Biography

Sarada Balagopalan is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University.

Cati Coe is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Keith Michael Green is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University.