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In his underappreciated and early essay “Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity” C. L. R. James observes that “the simplest reflection will show the necessity of holding fast … the affirmation that is contained in every negation, the future that is in the present” (1992:161). James’s notion of “the future in the present” helps me begin to respond to a question paraphrased from Michael Hames-García as to “who our own people are” (2000:102) and to the larger issue of the series of discussions taking place under the rubric of “The Future of Minority Studies.” With C. L. R. James, I make the preliminary observation that the future is in the present and that the future is in the past.
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Saldívar, R. (2006). Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. In: Alcoff, L.M., Hames-García, M., Mohanty, S.P., Moya, P.M.L. (eds) Identity Politics Reconsidered. The Future of Minority Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983398_10
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