Abolition’s Afterlives
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Abstract The positioning of movements for social and political change as forms postemancipation abolition democracy has a long history. Abolition been the watchword under which initiatives proceed to eradicate death penalty, human trafficking, nuclear weapons, hegemony Wall Street, prisons, police, deportation immigrants, more. essays in this forum examine nineteenth-century abolitionism’s complicated legacy through prism contemporary frameworks agitations justice transformation. working papers reflect vital ongoing debates about abolition’s afterlives while meditating upon series pressing current concerns: migrant justice, humanitarian rhetoric some anti-racist initiatives, activism Erica Garner following murder by police her father, racialization madness violence, prison-abolition movement, climate activism. By addressing mobilization rhetorics slavery our own vexed moment, contributors reveal that think now is necessarily rethink then.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Literary History
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0896-7148', '1468-4365']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab006