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... and contemporary bourgeois attitudes, which have insisted on a top down “civilizing process” as proper sentiments trickle down from the bourgeoisie to the lower classes. civilizing process public health campaigns discrimination popular culture haunting ...

... a population of people who could justifiably be segregated in state institutions. The chapter tracks the processes of civil and juvenile commitment from 1900 to 1940, including medical examinations, family histories, and psychological testing, through which people became diagnosed as defective. Once made...

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... This chapter introduces the reader to the brief civil war in 1932, known as the Constitutionalist Revolution, which pitted São Paulo against Brazil’s federal government and its chief executive, Getúlio Vargas. It argues for an approach to this episode that emphasizes the construction...

... popular culture, the bourgeois origins of the “civilizing process,” and working-class men as irredeemable machos. Erazno y la Chokolata Albures satire of sentiments gender relations sex education ...

... This chapter takes the mute representation of Ely S. Parker in the movie Lincoln (2012) as an occasion for considering the marginalization of Native peoples and processes of settler occupation in conventional narratives of national history. The focus on the Civil War as a signal event within...

... This chapter examines the discursive process through which the literary elite facilitated the erasure of Dominican blackness from the Archive of Dominicanidad. Through a reading of multiple literary representations of the Galindo Virgins (1860–1940), which contradict historical documents...

...Refugees Using ethnography from 1987–88 and oral histories collected in 2006–8, the chapter describes Somalia’s civil war through the experiences of three families in Banta from before the arrival of war, through the war, to their flight to Kenya as refugees. The people in Banta’s region were...

... When Somalia’s civil war began in 1991, many villagers from Banta, where the author had conducted ethnographic fieldwork in 1987–88, fled across the border to Kenya. The author lost all contact with villagers from Banta. In an unexpected reunion twenty years later, they found each other again...

... Emigration that is associated with political violence can be a form of dismemberment, in which nations are broken apart, families are separated, histories are repressed, and populations are divided by immigration status. These processes are particularly profound in the case of those who...

... This chapter analyzes practices underlying the institution of replacement—namely, house building, civil-religious elections, vengeance, loans, illness cures, adultery, and namesakes. Such practices involve the substitution of one entity for another entity, insofar as these entities have shared...

... Chapter 1 situates digital efforts to record death within a long history of photographic and filmic attempts from the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. The chapter unifies disparate images—Civil War and lynching photographs, early cinema’s...

.... An examination of how devotees’ perceptions of race have influenced the social history of the cult since its inception counters the temptation to regard “creolization” as a unifying harmonization, rather than a contested process. Scholars of African American religions are challenged to conduct more closely drawn...

... Chapter 4 supplies an in-depth analysis of abolition as a process of erasure after the Manumission Law of 1929. During the Pahlavi era (1925–79), erasure guided abolition to the extent that entire palace wings were demolished, dictionary definitions of slavery were carefully rewritten...

... In November 2012, California’s voter initiative process led to the passage of a new law criminalizing human trafficking. Funded by an Internet entrepreneur and riding a wave of anti-trafficking activism, the CASE Act is likely to spawn comparable attempts at law reform in other states. Covering...

... years of municipal government under the Workers’ Party (2002–3). The analysis brings to light contests between “civil” and “uncivil” forms of civic participation: on the one hand, the ideal participant envisioned in the official discourses of each initiative; on the other hand, “on the ground...