...Institutional Characteristics, Historical Contexts, and Black Church Civic Involvements ...

... informed Namaste’s other organizational characteristics, including its values, bureaucratic structure, and embeddedness in foreign, rather than local, networks. These characteristics ensured a reliance on specialization, simplified views of women, monitoring, paperwork, and quantitative data, as well...

... in the laments of songs, as a stereotypical yet identifying characteristic of men in Mexican folklore. Paredes debates its source. masculinity gender folklore Texas ...

... In Rio de Janeiro in the latter half of the 1910s, a craze for imported serial films fostered new practices of film consumption, novel conceptions of cinema’s defining characteristics, and fresh ambitions for local film production. The popularity of serial films and their tie-in novelizations...

... This chapter discusses islands as landmasses, large and small, with special characteristics. Those who live on islands develop an identity deeply affected by living in physical and—in the case of Cuba—political isolation. This chapter begins by speaking of islands in general, their ecology...

... Berlant's day-to-day experiences in diary-like format albeit with the characteristic insights and turns of phrase that illuminate the ways that affect shapes encounters and episodes within and beyond the ordinary. frankness life/death poison alter worlds writing ...

... Slavoj Žižek’s interventions into the fields of culture and politics have characteristic resemblances with what Freud termed “wild analysis”: they are somewhat premature and do not allow the analysand to speak for itself. Instead, Žižek often poses his conclusions in the form of rhetorical...

... How did the “glass ceiling” and related characteristics of female labor force experience become recognized as a proper object for social scientific study? Exploring interactions between the contexts of discovery and justification reveals how this phenomenon was recognized and established...

... This chapter reckons with the common sense of the French radical right in the late l990s and how those characteristics have morphed into a broader racialized common sense in Europe today. It treats that earlier moment not as a “snapshot” of another time but as a diagnostic to argue...

... In journalistic accounts, the Filipino singing voice has been figured as unthinking yet brilliant in its reproduction of U.S. popular songs, a sad attempt to move closer to American-ness and modernity. These characteristics have been naturalized through the historical fact of Filipino overseas...