... gossip Confidential magazine This Is Your Life Maureen O’Hara Hollywood scandal ...

... This chapter explores how television and scandal magazines of the 1950s competed and converged through their use of stars whose personas had been established by the film industry. The recyclings of Maureen O’Hara through the moral biography of This Is Your Life and the scandalous gossip...

... The seventh chapter looks at Adál as a Nuyorican artist interested in science fiction. It comments on his attraction to the genre of the fotonovela . Stavans visits Adál in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they discuss Spanglish not only as a language but also as a cultural approach to life...

...” listing her week’s accomplishments, addressed to “La Comandante Jones.” Hettie complains that previous agent, ICM, pocketed royalty money she was owed by Viking for Big Star. They discuss whether “getting on with your life” includes cleaning. Hettie goes to California, describes herself as being...

... of a livable life without violence. Hansen’s disease sterilization American propaganda marriage as evidence of cure Your Paradise ...

... The life of the Aymara hip-hop artist Abraham Bojórquez was cut off tragically in a traffc accident in El Alto in 2009, when he was twenty-six. Born in El Alto, he migrated to Brazil alone when he was twelve and worked in textile workshops and other informal jobs in São Paulo. There he learned...

...Forms of Life This chapter pays close attention to biological engineers’ use of mechanistic logic and machine analogies to render living substance in the form of molecular machines. It offers an ethnographic account of protein modelers’ creativity with both words and things as they learn...

...Gender, Trauma, and Memory This chapter analyzes two key female characters in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic novel Fall on Your Knees who use experimental, improvised performance to disrupt prevailing power relations that privilege white, male heterosexual identity. Materia’s and Frances’s...

... This chapter returns to the example of the brick wall introduced in chapter 4 and asks what it means to think of diversity work as a “banging your head against a brick wall job.” It suggests that the wall is more than a metaphor and refers to the processes whereby histories become concrete, how...