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Inaugural Issue A Journal of Black Political Thought Est. 2026
Street mural History · The Lead Essay

The Closed Exit

Racialisation, Emancipation, and the Making of Anti-Blackness.

Front Page Essays

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The Closed Exit · Chapter I

Exits That Worked

Rome, Islamic law, medieval Europe and the Malagasy highlands: four societies that held people in hereditary subordination and still left a way out.

1C · pp. 12–21
The Closed Exit · Chapter II

Genesis 9, and the Manufacture of Essence

Nine verses that mention neither skin colour nor Africa, and how the Curse of Ham came to be read as both.

1C · pp. 22–29
The Closed Exit · Chapter III

1615 and 1667

Ahmad Bābā’s ruling from Timbuktu, the answer from Virginia, and what the divergence shows.

1C · pp. 30–37
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