Out of the House of Bondage

Abstract

The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle' mistresses ministered to 'loyal' slaves. This book recounts a very different story. The very notion of a private sphere, as divorced from the immoral excesses of chattel slavery as from the amoral logic of market laws, functioned to conceal from public scrutiny the day-to-day struggles between enslaved women and their mistresses, subsumed within a logic of patriarchy. One of emancipation's unsung consequences was precisely the exposure to public view of the unbridgeable social distance between the women on whose labor the plantation household relied and the women who employed them. This is a story of race and gender, nation and citizenship, freedom and bondage in the nineteenth century South; a big abstract story that is composed of equally big personal stories.

Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone

“…That is, while white Americans tried to discursively and materially contain Black women's movement and expression, these women were instead "able to define their own version of freedom that included self-determination and personal pride" through their clothing purchases and display. 71 Moreover, they emphatically occupied both public spaces and private American homes, despite attempts to denigrate their existence and discipline their behavior. This was not merely banal consumption and personal ostentatiousness but a representation of Black women's investment in the "rituals of status and selfpresentation" that they had brought with them from the islands.…”

“…Following the work of Thavolia Glymph, this article is more interested in reading the "hidden transcripts" of Black women's resistance and negotiation. 11 The article further highlights the Canal Zone American household as a site of converging experiences, where women from islands colonized by the British and French met the wives of US imperial workers and bureaucrats, each learning how to navigate this new "contact zone." 12 Here, the "freedom dreams" of Afro-Caribbean immigrants escaping the drudgery of plantation labor and colonial surveillance clashed with US visions of anti-Blackness and imperial expansion.…”

Cosmopolitan sidestep: University life, intimate geopolitics and the hidden costs of “Global” citizenship

“…As domestically focused reproductive labour was institutionalised as janitorial and housekeeping work, 1 racialised and gendered divisions for that work were reproduced in marketised, institutional form (Agular, 2001;Branch, 2011;Duffy, 2007;Nakano Glenn, 1992). The US South was central to the most divisive examples of these labour regimes, particularly systems tethering African American women to domestic care work (Glymph, 2008). Against this history, campus workers at our own university have long fought for recognition, fair treatment and equity (Ashton, 2013;Baumann, 1993;Chapman, 2006;McSurley, 1993).…”

The Relationship Between Gaussian Curvature and Surface Panelization Approaches in Architecture

“…13 Tasarıma başlamadan önce dörtgen panellemeye karar verildiği öngörüsü üzerinden hareket eden bazı araştırmalarda belirli matematik yüzeylerin düzlem dörtgen panelleme için daha uygun olduğu açıklanmaktadır. 14,15,16 Diğer yandan yüzeyin yukarıdaki özel yöntemler kullanılmadan serbest biçimde tasarlandığı durumlar için, düzlem dörtgen panelleri sonradan oluşturmayı hedefleyen araştırmalar da vardır. Bu araştırmalarda yüzeyden olabildiğince az uzaklaşacak şekilde hesaplama yapan algoritmalar oluşturulmaktadır.…”