... alleged chaos. Those discourses justified and motivated the material relations of conquest, occupation, and colonization of the Third World with the rise of nationalism and capitalism in Europe. imperialism capitalism geographic determinism biological determinism taxonomy ...

... In the late nineteenth century, bodies, race, and gender expression determined who would make a good police officer. The need for police to be good fighters made Irish officers necessary because of, and not despite, their alleged ability to brawl. The masculinity of police was also hotly debated...

... The Introduction begins with a critique of long-standing stereotypes about Mexican working-class men, especially their alleged machismo. It provides background on Mexico City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (including demographic changes in the workforce) and the satiric penny press...

... omitted from histories of hereditary racial slavery, they were uniquely situated to understand its logics. As the marketplace of slavery was rooted in their symbolic and material capacity to produce children, these women accounted for the connection between slavery and their own alleged kinlessness...

... state. In the post-World War II United States, both allegations of conspiracy and dismissals of “conspiracy theory” have become part of a robust discourse on human agency, sovereign power, and the health of the public sphere. Conspiracy discourse is a symptom of the conditions of knowledge in a security...

... and self-evident legal identity creates a context for allegations of fraud and mendacity, and the denial of statelessness claims. statelessness expert testimony fraud documentation refugees ...

... hypersexuality, and transforms them into consumable and desirable qualities. Fiesta reframes Latina sexuality as something that enables white women to tap into their own sexuality. Fiesta also distinguishes the alleged foreignness of tropicalized Latinness by distancing it from US domestic people of color...

... measures, this gambit succeeded spectacularly: the Mexican economy grew at an annual rate of over 6 percent between 1940 and 1970, prompting giddy talk of a “Mexican Economic Miracle.” Part VI examines the contradictions of this alleged miracle, deliberately seeking to illustrate the darker side of Mexican...

... music; an alleged madman who spent a quarter century in a Louisiana insane asylum; and a historical enigma whose warrants a mad methodology. The chapter is interested in both Bolden’s historical life (which leaves scant archival trace) and his mythical afterlife (which teems with activity...

... nationalisms and, simultaneously, for visualizing the contradictions at the core of these nationalisms. The first aspect is their loose treatment of historical facts, places, and people. Second, the nationalistic projects at the heart of these adventure serials drew simultaneously on the alleged authenticity...

... of childhood sexual abuse—to show how it and the sexual misconduct allegations that followed complicate the common reading of his work as decolonial fiction. Junot Díaz Afro-Latinx fukú americanus postapocalyptic space post/colonial narrative ...

..., an inpatient at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital from 1969 to 1976, requested financial support from his doctors based on his alleged status as Ghana’s “SUPERLANDLORD” and “GOLDMANGOD.” Akla-Osu was a failed truth-maker, who spoke and acted as a truth-teller, a prophet. Delusional utterances in African...

... ethically, in light of social scientists’ findings that suicides can spread when romanticized through their media representation—an effect that would counteract the project’s alleged goal of suicide prevention. digital video Golden Gate Bridge Eric Steel media ethics surveillance ...

... This chapter suggests that the precariousness of missionary work to Māori was exposed by the sexual transgressions of missionaries themselves. It offers a close reading of the most protracted scandal that rocked the mission: the dismissal of William Yate in 1836 following allegations he...

... of British informal empire in Latin America. The second presents the proposals of Jamaican planters and merchants to overcome the economic crisis produced by the American Revolution. The third turns to the analysis of alleged and real threats of British invasion of Caribbean New Granada. The fourth examines...

... Chapter 4 examines cases of alleged interracial rape in the interwar period. In the 1920s, an official government commission was appointed to investigate the problem of “Black Peril,” a term used across colonial spaces to refer to sexual assaults allegedly committed by Black or brown men...

... speech. It examines a petition letter in which Akla-Osu, an inpatient at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital from 1969 to 1976, requested financial support from his doctors based on his alleged status as Ghana’s “SUPERLANDLORD” and “GOLDMANGOD.” Akla-Osu was a failed truth-maker, who spoke and acted...