Annie Menzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3702222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Menzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Menzel |
| SIGNATURE | MENZEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constellating the Politics of Motherhood toward Justice
Tempestuous Maternities
For both decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter and Marxist feminist Silvia Federici, Shakespeare’s The Tempest unlocks central elements of our racial capitalist history and present. At first glance incompatible, their respective readings are mutually generative. Wynter’s prioritization of racial/colonial categories over ostensibly universal “gender” corrects Federici’s conflation of European women’s oppression with that of African and American Indige…
The Midwife's Bag, or, the Objects of Black Infant Mortality Prevention
In the United States, Black infants have died at approximately twice the rate of White infants since the first national comparative statistics appeared in the late nineteenth century. This essay highlights the “midwife control” campaigns of the 1920s South as a crucial entrenchment of this pattern of everyday violence. Putting into conversation work on objectification and the human by Simone Browne, Sara Ahmed, and others, it describes the campai…
Awful Gladness
W.E.B. Du Bois’s elegy for his infant son, “Of the Passing of the First-Born,” in The Souls of Black Folk, has received relatively scant attention from political theorists. Yet it illuminates crucial developments in Du Bois’s political thought. It memorializes a tragedy central to his turn from scientific facts to rhetorical appeals to emotion. Its rhetoric also exemplifies a broader tension in his writings, between masculinist and elitist commit…
Afro pessimism
Minor Perambulations, Political Horizons
In “Anarchist Women and the Politics of Walking,” Kathy Ferguson identifies rich and unexpected connections between anarchist feminists, walking, and Whitehead’s process philosophy. In attuning readers to resonances between the physiological and sensory complexity of walking, and the latter’s role in the lives of anarchist feminists Alexandra David-Neel and Lily Gair Wilkinson (and Ferguson’s own), her essay sheds crucial light on the concept of …
Birthright Citizenship and the Racial Contract
Since 1981, there has been a sea change in longstanding policies ofjus soli, or birthright citizenship, reinforcing the global divide between affluent spaces of whiteness and impoverished spaces of nonwhiteness. I argue that these moves highlight the global system of citizenship as an increasingly consequential aspect of what Charles Mills terms the Racial Contract: the set of agreements, historically explicit and currently tacit, that divides th…
Afro pessimism
Birthright Citizenship and the Racial Contract
Since 1981, there has been a sea change in longstanding policies ofjus soli, or birthright citizenship, reinforcing the global divide between affluent spaces of whiteness and impoverished spaces of nonwhiteness. I argue that these moves highlight the global system of citizenship as an increasingly consequential aspect of what Charles Mills terms the Racial Contract: the set of agreements, historically explicit and currently tacit, that divides th…
The Midwife's Bag, or, the Objects of Black Infant Mortality Prevention
In the United States, Black infants have died at approximately twice the rate of White infants since the first national comparative statistics appeared in the late nineteenth century. This essay highlights the “midwife control” campaigns of the 1920s South as a crucial entrenchment of this pattern of everyday violence. Putting into conversation work on objectification and the human by Simone Browne, Sara Ahmed, and others, it describes the campai…
Awful Gladness
W.E.B. Du Bois’s elegy for his infant son, “Of the Passing of the First-Born,” in The Souls of Black Folk, has received relatively scant attention from political theorists. Yet it illuminates crucial developments in Du Bois’s political thought. It memorializes a tragedy central to his turn from scientific facts to rhetorical appeals to emotion. Its rhetoric also exemplifies a broader tension in his writings, between masculinist and elitist commit…
Birthright Citizenship and the Racial Contract
Since 1981, there has been a sea change in longstanding policies ofjus soli, or birthright citizenship, reinforcing the global divide between affluent spaces of whiteness and impoverished spaces of nonwhiteness. I argue that these moves highlight the global system of citizenship as an increasingly consequential aspect of what Charles Mills terms the Racial Contract: the set of agreements, historically explicit and currently tacit, that divides th…
Minor Perambulations, Political Horizons
In “Anarchist Women and the Politics of Walking,” Kathy Ferguson identifies rich and unexpected connections between anarchist feminists, walking, and Whitehead’s process philosophy. In attuning readers to resonances between the physiological and sensory complexity of walking, and the latter’s role in the lives of anarchist feminists Alexandra David-Neel and Lily Gair Wilkinson (and Ferguson’s own), her essay sheds crucial light on the concept of …
Afro pessimism
Awful Gladness
W.E.B. Du Bois’s elegy for his infant son, “Of the Passing of the First-Born,” in The Souls of Black Folk, has received relatively scant attention from political theorists. Yet it illuminates crucial developments in Du Bois’s political thought. It memorializes a tragedy central to his turn from scientific facts to rhetorical appeals to emotion. Its rhetoric also exemplifies a broader tension in his writings, between masculinist and elitist commit…
The Midwife's Bag, or, the Objects of Black Infant Mortality Prevention
In the United States, Black infants have died at approximately twice the rate of White infants since the first national comparative statistics appeared in the late nineteenth century. This essay highlights the “midwife control” campaigns of the 1920s South as a crucial entrenchment of this pattern of everyday violence. Putting into conversation work on objectification and the human by Simone Browne, Sara Ahmed, and others, it describes the campai…
Tempestuous Maternities
For both decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter and Marxist feminist Silvia Federici, Shakespeare’s The Tempest unlocks central elements of our racial capitalist history and present. At first glance incompatible, their respective readings are mutually generative. Wynter’s prioritization of racial/colonial categories over ostensibly universal “gender” corrects Federici’s conflation of European women’s oppression with that of African and American Indige…
Constellating the Politics of Motherhood toward Justice
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)