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    Ilustraciones de Justin Gerard ...
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  • History 4° Celsius

    Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene

    de Ian Baucom ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene. He draws on materialist and postmaterialist thought, ... Leer más

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  • Out of Place

    Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity

    de Ian Baucom ...
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    Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

    de Ian Baucom ...
    In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the ... Leer más

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    In the 1980s—at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities—the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This richly illustrated volume presents a history of that movement. It brings together in a lively dialogue leading artists, ... Leer más

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