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This essay examines how the rhetoric of recovery and reclamation functions in scholarly projects that aim to switch traditional or historical narrative codes. After describing the discourse on “post-blackness” as an example of how prefixes serve as problematic stabilizers in academe, I will offer a few moments in recent popular commemorative culture – especially the events that recognized desegregation at the University of Alabama – as narrative sites where the limitations of recovery work become apparent.
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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Thinking Gender. New York, NY; London: Routledge, 1999.
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Chidester, David. Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia Press, 1996.
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Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory. An Introduction. 2nd ed. Foreword by Angela Harris. Critical America. New York, NY; London: New York University Press, 2012.
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Gibson, Jamesha. “Five Historic Sites with Fresh Perspectives on Interpreting Slavery and Freedom.” National Trust for Historic Preservation. http://blog.preservationnation.org/2015/04/24/five-historic-sites-with-fresh-perspectives-on-interpreting-slavery-and-freedom/#comments.
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Hill, Jane. The Everyday Language of White Racism. Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
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McCutcheon, Russell. “Africa on Our Minds.” Pages 230–237 in The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion. Edited by Theodore L. Trost. Religion, Culture, Critique. Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press, 2003.
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Planas, Roque. “Fox News Raises Alarm over College Course about Race.” Huffpost, Latino Voices. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/24/fox-news-whiteness_n_6538986.html.
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Puri, Shalini. The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
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Simmons, K. Merinda. “Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness: Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance.” Pages 1–20 in The Trouble with Post-Blackness. Edited by Houston A. Baker, Jr., and K. Merinda Simmons. New York, NY; Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Simmons, K. Merinda. “Remember the Ala-What-Now?” pages 35–37 in Fabricating Origins. Edited by Russell T. McCutcheon. Working with Culture on the Edge. Sheffield: Equinox, 2015.
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Thomas, Greg. “Introduction: Coloniality’s Persistence.” CR: The New Centennial Review, 3, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 1–4. doi:10.1353/ncr.2004.0012.
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Touré. Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now. Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson. New York, NY: Free Press, 2012.
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Žižek, Slavoj. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. Big Ideas//Small Books. New York, NY: Picador, 2008.
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This essay examines how the rhetoric of recovery and reclamation functions in scholarly projects that aim to switch traditional or historical narrative codes. After describing the discourse on “post-blackness” as an example of how prefixes serve as problematic stabilizers in academe, I will offer a few moments in recent popular commemorative culture – especially the events that recognized desegregation at the University of Alabama – as narrative sites where the limitations of recovery work become apparent.
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