Power Play
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Abstract 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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2000 ◽
Vol 27
(1)
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pp. 1-42
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2014 ◽
Vol 70
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pp. 565-566
2012 ◽
Vol 20
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pp. 1-14
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