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This essay examines reports of racialised violence endured by William King, an African American man who migrated to Australia and became ensnared in the Victoria prison system. His experiences of mistreatment at the hands of prison staff were made public in 1899 through a series of reports in the Toscin, a paper produced by a progressive collective in Melbourne. This article examines the textual tactics the Tocsin used to analyse King's case as well as the limits of its political writings. Though the Tocsin employed a range of geographical scales in its analysis of King's case, drawing together international campaigns into local conversations, the paper remained embedded in the logics of white supremacy. Its writers were thus unable to reimagine the structures of white supremacy from which they wrote to condemn the injustices King faced.

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This essay argues for transnational methodologies to redress the racial aphasia of Victorian periodical studies. Discourses about race and Indigeneity abound in nineteenth-century anglophone periodicals but have been seldom acknowledged. Building upon calls to undiscipline nineteenth-century literary studies, this essay and the special issue it introduces advocate for expansive approaches to race and transnationality. We consider why widening periodical studies' geographical reach beyond the Global North necessitates new methodologies to complement the lively engagement with Black studies currently reshaping Romantic and Victorian scholarship. We invite periodicals scholars to disentangle the essential organizational work of bibliographical analysis and attribution research from the subject position of "mastery" and to recommit ourselves to solidarity with and justice for marginalized communities whose voices can be located within periodical archives.

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This article examines the ethnographic portrayal of the Sámi in the nineteenth-century European illustrated press, focusing on travel reports about Sápmi (Norway) from 1860 to 1900. It analyses how touristic depictions of Indigenous peoples reflected popular interest and prevalent racial discourses of the time. Often disguised as objective narratives of scientific observation and exploration, these representations, produced and circulated by esteemed explorers, photographers, and publishers, served to reinforce Western colonial structures and imperialist ideologies. Inviting a turn inwards, this essay draws attention to the existence of domestic colonies within Europe and underlines how the same rhetoric was redeployed to justify these internal colonies.

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Focusing on scientific periodicals produced in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia, this article considers the representational significance of numerical inscriptions in ethnographic accounts of the Orang Asli of Malaysia: first, in fostering comparative analyses of Indigenous peoples across various transcolonial sites; second, in schematizing raw data into diagrams, tables, and other immutable mobiles that could move between regional and metropolitan centres; and third, in shaping a bifurcation between modern subjects inhabiting meaningful lifeworlds and premodern subjects who could be objectified, abstracted, or reduced to numerical demonstration. In each case, the article considers the important intermedial role of periodicals in circulating numerical inscriptions and, thus, enabling a turn from context-driven accounts of Indigenous peoples to an emphasis on numerical stand-ins detached from particular locations and material conditions.

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This essay examines the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through nineteenth-century Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture, illuminating the shifting narratives surrounding Chile's Indigenous Mapuche people. Originating as a tragic romance justifying Chilean military expansion, the myth was reimagined by the Anglo-Chilean newspaper the Star of Chile as a New Woman bildungsroman that omitted the original tale's settler-colonial context. These variant accounts expose Chile's internal conflicts over Indigenous representation, as well as broader Anglo-Chilean perspectives on settler colonialism. Through the lens of entangled history, the essay argues that these narratives ultimately erase Mapuche Indigeneity by appropriating and romanticizing Indigenous voices.

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This article analyzes the work of E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake and her engagements with the print culture of colonial Canada at the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that Johnson used this print space to cannily negotiate the demands of a settler culture that was forcibly and violently working to assimilate First Nations peoples across the continent. By combining research by Haudenosaunee scholars on their wampum practices and traditions with scholarship on Victorian periodical and print culture, Fong shows how Johnson's early poetry and prose on paddling from the Toronto-based periodical Saturday Night engaged Mohawk political and aesthetic practices.