{"product_id":"trafficking-in-antiblackness-9781478017073","title":"Trafficking in Antiblackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrafficking in Antiblackness\u003c\/i\u003e Lyndsey P. Beutin analyzes how campaigns to end human trafficking—often described as “modern-day slavery”—invoke the memory of transatlantic slavery to support positions ultimately grounded in antiblackness. Drawing on contemporary antitrafficking visual culture and media discourse, she shows how a constellation of media, philanthropic, NGO, and government actors invested in ending human trafficking repurpose the history of transatlantic slavery and abolition in ways that undermine contemporary struggles for racial justice and slavery reparations. The recurring narratives, images, and figures such as “slavery in Africa,” “Arab slave traders,” and “Black incapacity for self-governance” discursively turn Black people across the diaspora into the enslavers of the past and present in place of white Americans and Europeans. Doing so, Beutin contends, creates a rhetorical defense against being \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reparations and the Rise of Antitrafficking Discourse  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Blaming Black Mothers  61\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: #FreeCyntoiaBrown  93\u003cbr\u003e 3. When Slavery’s Not Black  101\u003cbr\u003e 4. Deceptive Empiricism  133\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: #Charlottesville  165\u003cbr\u003e 5. History Is Antiblackness  173\u003cbr\u003e Afterword  193\u003cbr\u003e Notes 197\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  237\u003cbr\u003e Index  257","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409005125975,"sku":"9781478017073","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017073.jpg?v=1730505057","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trafficking-in-antiblackness-9781478017073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}