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... if in the streets after dark and unescorted by a white person. American Revolution colonial New York the Book of Negroes lantern laws passports ...

... This chapter tells train stories. It is about writing in trains and also narrating stories that take place on trains. “Mofussil Junction” refers to the colonial name for small (or provincial) towns and in this essay the author focuses on Patna, Bihar and Poughkeepsie, New York. Train...

... to local (New York) and national (United States, Puerto Rico) histories, Puerto Rican abjection, and nationalist cultural politics that Puerto Ricans navigate as racialized colonial and diasporic subjects and cultural agents. Nuyorican Nuyorican Poet’s Café Marc Anthony diaspora aesthetics ...

... of colonial governance in the Philippines and organized the police force in US-occupied Havana. This chapter explores the similarities between attempts to subordinate US overseas colonies and multiracial New York City. After becoming police commissioner in 1903, Greene reorganized the detective bureau...

... This chapter explores John Marrant’s early childhood and reconstructs the religious worlds he encountered in New York City; St. Augustine, Florida; and Savannah, Georgia. In each urban center, Black communities nurtured rich Africana religious cultures. In New York, Afro-Iberian fraternal...

... to the 1892 Homestead Strike, suggesting an intimate relationship between labor, property, and the politics of aesthetics. The chapter examines the Frick Collection in New York City and the Homestead Strike in order to investigate the connections between labor dispossession and the rise of the personal...

... This chapter proceeds from writings by trans feminine people active in 1970s Trans Liberation political projects in New York City, Philadelphia, and Miami. The chapter was written in the ongoing life of an anti-Black and settler colonial order, where trans feminine life and resistance continue...

... In the late 1960s, diasporic Puerto Ricans established the Nuyorican movement, a sociocultural endeavor rooted in New York City to assert their presence and civil rights. El Taller Alma Boricua (Taller Boricua) was a pivotal institution that provided a platform for artists of color, aiming...

... First drafted shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, this chapter explores key elements in Anzaldúa’s onto-epistemology (“desconocimientos,” “the path of conocimiento”); aesthetics (“the Coyolxauhqui imperative”); and ethics (“spiritual activism...

...Places This chapter tells train stories. It is about writing in trains and also narrating stories that take place on trains. “Mofussil Junction” refers to the colonial name for small (or provincial) towns and in this essay the author focuses on Patna, Bihar and Poughkeepsie, New York...

... of origin. But an "F" on an identity document can be verified, it is assumed, with a quick external examination of the body. This essay examines New York City policymakers' responses to the requests for reclassification between 1965 and 2006. We analyze data generated from participant observation...

... culture as a symbol of Puerto Rican identity and critiquing colonial history. Taller Boricua diaspora studies exile aesthetics Taino Máximo Rafael Colón, an artist and activist, captures the Puerto Rican community’s evolution in New York through a prolific photographic archive spanning five...

... This chapter considers the networks surrounding pre-Andean archaeology and art history in mid-twentieth-century New York, and in particular, the role of women artists and female assistants—specifically, the weavers Anni Albers and Sheila Hicks as crucial, but uncredited, interlocutors for their more famous...

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... News Milwaukee Sentinel Morning Oregonian (Portland) New York Times North American North American and United States Gazette Nupepa Kuokoa Omaha Bee Omaha World-Herald Pacific Commercial Advertiser Paradise of the Pacific Puck Rocky Mountain...

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... Montes (1904–9, 1913–17). He actively courted U.S. financial investment and arranged the so-called Speyer Contract, a joint stock venture between the Bolivian government, the National City Bank of New York, and the Speyer Company to construct railroads that would “vertebrate” national space. The project...

... masculinities. The chapter outlines the ways that white masculinity extended US military dominance through formal and informal partnerships with male weather experimenters, as well as the ways print culture—exemplified through the New York Times and Scientific American —supported the formation of a settler...

... the academy for the campaign and demonstrates how such action can refresh and enliven radical inquiry and scholarship in the United States. boycott Divestment and Sanctions Campaign academic boycott Israeli apartheid This essay is a case study of the Department of Equity Studies at York...