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    • Abolition, Robert Fanuzzi
    • Aesthetics, Russ Castronovo
    • Affect, Ann Cvetkovich
    • African, Kevin K. Gaines
    • America, Kirsten Silva Gruesz
    • Asian, John Kuo Wei Tchen
    • Biopolitics, Kyla Schuller
    • Black, E. Patrick Johnson
    • Body, Eva Cherniavsky
    • Book, Amaranth Borsuk
    • Border, Mary Pat Brady
    • Boycott, Cynthia G. Franklin
    • Capitalism, David F. Ruccio
    • Citizenship, Lauren Berlant
    • City, Micaela di Leonardo
    • Civilization, David S. Shields
    • Class, Eric Lott
    • Climate, Ashley Dawson
    • Colonial, David Kazanjian
    • Community, Miranda Joseph
    • Conservatism, Angela D. Dillard
    • Contract, Amy Dru Stanley
    • Coolie, Moon-Ho Jung
    • Copyright, Kembrew McLeod
    • Corporation, Christopher Newfield
    • Creole, Marlene L. Daut
    • Culture, George Yúdice
    • Data, Lauren Klein and Miriam Posner
    • Debt, Andrew Ross
    • Democracy, Fred Moten
    • Dialect, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
    • Diaspora, Brent Hayes Edwards
    • Digital, Tara McPherson
    • Disability, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
    • Diversity, Jodi Melamed
    • Domestic, Rosemary Marangoly George
    • Economy, Timothy Mitchell
    • Empire, Shelley Streeby
    • Engagement, Erica Kohl-Arenas and George J. Sanchez
    • Environment, Vermonja R. Alston
    • Ethnicity, Henry Yu
    • Exceptionalism, Donald E. Pease
    • Family, Carla L. Peterson
    • Fascism, Rebecca Hill
    • Fashion, Thuy Linh Tu
    • Finance, Randy Martin
    • Freedom, Stephanie Smallwood
    • Futurity, Rebecca Wanzo
    • Gender, Jack Halberstam
    • Gesture, Lindsay Reckson
    • Globalization, Lisa Lowe
    • Government, Leerom Medovoi
    • Identity, Carla Kaplan
    • Immigration, Eithne Luibhéid
    • Indian, Robert Warrior
    • Indigenous, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
    • Interiority, Christopher Castiglia
    • Internment, Caroline Chung Simpson
    • Intersectionality, Daniel Martinez HoSang
    • Islam, Brian T. Edwards
    • Labor, Marc Bousquet
    • Latino/a/x, Juana María Rodríguez
    • Law, Dean Spade
    • Liberalism, Nikhil Pal Singh
    • Literature, Sandra M. Gustafson
    • Market, Meredith L. McGill
    • Marriage, Elizabeth Freeman
    • Media, Lisa Nakamura
    • Mestizo/a, Curtis Marez
    • Migration, Alyshia Gálvez
    • Modern, Chandan Reddy
    • Nation, Alys Eve Weinbaum
    • Naturalization, Priscilla Wald
    • Nature, June Wayee Chau and Julie Sze
    • Neoliberalism, Lisa Duggan
    • Normal, Robert McRuer
    • Orientalism, Vijay Prashad
    • Performance, Susan Manning
    • Politics, Kandice Chuh
    • Populism, Joseph Lowndes
    • Prison, Caleb Smith
    • Property, Grace Kyungwon Hong
    • Public, Bruce Robbins
    • Queer, Siobhan B. Somerville
    • Race, Roderick A. Ferguson
    • Racialization, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Oneka LaBennett
    • Reform, Susan M. Ryan
    • Region, Sandra A. Zagarell
    • Religion, Janet R. Jakobsen
    • Rights, Crystal Parikh
    • Rural, Scott Herring
    • Safe, Christina B. Hanhardt
    • Science, Laura Briggs
    • Secularism, Michael Warner
    • Sentiment, June Howard
    • Sex, Bruce Burgett
    • Skill, Miriam Bartha
    • Slavery, Walter Johnson
    • Society, Glenn Hendler
    • Sound, Josh Kun
    • South, Matthew Pratt Guterl
    • Space, George Lipsitz
    • State, Paul Thomas
    • Subject, Tavia Nyong’o
    • Technology, Jentery Sayers
    • Terror, Junaid Rana
    • Time, Valerie Rohy
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by Erin Manning

Maybe you always knew. Your parents presumed you would go to university. They told you often that they were saving for your future. Thinking back, future and university were one and the same. It was simply expected, and so here you are.

This essay may be found on page 246 of the printed volume.

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