Black mobility, as seen in the case of the Haitian migrant-slave, is not only a threat to the sovereign-national border, but to the border-as-limit to the meaning of emancipation and agency writ large. By Tea S. Troutman Borders—like the nation-states, colonies, and otherwise legible cartographies of sovereignty they demarcate,—are first and foremost anti-black. That’s it....
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From Europe to the United States: Empires in Decline, Fascism on the Rise
Western empires will fall, if not dramatically then in daily dissent by the people that they have devastated. From the United States to Europe, we are witnessing a transnational decline of empire. And with it, we see a return to fascism. The struggle against the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy is a global struggle. In “How...