Walter Johnson’s point about “agency” can be extended to other central concepts of historical analysis: what might appear as a salutary extension of a foundational category of liberal democracy to the histories of enslaved people in fact forces those histories into frameworks that are, ultimately, those of enslavers. The interconnected insights of Black feminism and Queer theory—particularly about “domestic institutions”—suggest that politics is another of those categories that, like agency, risks forcing the histories of enslaved people into analytic categories of an ultimately white-supremacist liberalism.

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代理、政治和“不可能的家庭”：对沃尔特·约翰逊《论代理》的回应


沃尔特·约翰逊关于“能动性”的观点可以扩展到历史分析的其他核心概念：看似自由民主基本范畴对被奴役人民历史的有益延伸，实际上迫使这些历史进入最终的框架。那些奴役者。黑人女权主义和酷儿理论的相互关联的见解——尤其是关于“国内机构”——表明政治是另一个类别，它和代理一样，有可能迫使被奴役者的历史进入最终白人至上主义自由主义的分析类别。