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... of the United States was always predicated on their subordination, and they challenge white readers to comprehend and account for the internal ‘‘pockets of the South’’ within the United States, in which refugees face state...

... Wright in Paris” (“No, We Do Not Play the Trumpet: Richard Wright in Paris”) . Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 8 , no. 3 : 285 – 303 . Smith William G. (1963) 1964 . The Stone Face . New York : Pocket Books . Stora Benjamin . 2001 . Algeria 1839–2000: A Short...

... needs to leave others alone. What private morality adds up to in the end is a difference of “opinion,” much as Jefferson’s ( 1954 , 159) famous quip about religion suggests: “It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg...

... intervention: a person’s body is cut open to remove something growing inside; a person tortures another by drilling into his teeth; and a person saves his own life by amputating his arm with a pocket knife. In their efforts to generate reader/audience sensation, these texts exploit popular anxieties about...

... by Henry Davis, the tenement’s Black janitor: I got a marble and a star, and the star is in my pocket too. Got a marble and star, the star is in my pocket too. If you’ll be real good, I’ll show that star to you. I got a halo and a hat, but my halo I don’t wear. Got a halo and a hat, my halo I don’t...

... of corruption. Apparently he has been using his desk as a clearinghouse for his precinct’s consumer orders for the televisions. This same sergeant also advises the young beat cop who first reported the hijacking to pocket $2000 he found at the scene.1 As shocking as this episode seems, its reversals...

..., in which urban youth accost their “betters” with impertinent questions or actions, occasionally picking the pockets of distracted gentlemen. Such cartoons cast the urban street as a dynamic arena of class encounter, where outcomes are uncertain and class authority is always at risk. Yankee Doodle ’s...

... of the Emblem of the Codfish in the Hall of the House of Representatives ( 1895 ) dreams of cod the gold of the sea that will fill their bellies and their pockets —Cheryl Savageau, “Cod” ( 2006 ) Though he claimed to have set out for “whales and [to] make tryalls of a Myne of Gold and Copper...

... where he has heard of “so much gold and precious stones . . . [that] he conceive[s] the most ardent desire to go there, and load his pockets with those valuable articles” (Campe 1824 : 11). Along with filial disobedience and general recklessness, material greed is one of the chief offenses for which...

... Diafoirus wooed the fair Angélique, he drew from his pocket a medical thesis, and presented it to her, as the first-fruits of his genius, and at the same time invited her, with her father’s permission, to attend...