... This chapter probes what lies beyond the enduring rational, conscious, Lockean legal subject by speculatively returning to the disregarded body in sleep. The answer is formulated through studies of the phenomenology of sleep and the political theology of the sleeping king, which converge...

... The late 1960s and early 1970s were watershed years in the business of Black dolls. Recognizing new levels of Black purchasing power, and increasingly conscious of both civil rights movement demands for inclusion in consumer culture and psychologists’ concern about racial identity formation...

...The Tool of Story Pieces in this section demonstrate the conscious use of storytelling as a tool for change. Poems and essays in this section include lectures about metaphor as systems analysis and another often-cited essay, “The Historian as Curandera.” These are just a few examples of how...

... vis-à-vis fellow rumberos, state administrators, private business owners, and tourists. The conscious rehearsal of and improvisation within essentialized tropes of Black womanhood sedimented in slavery prompt the consideration of rumba as a technique of dissemblance, situating its choreographies...

... the stories that Black community members tell themselves about their history are part of a larger Black folklore tradition around Black flight. The survival of this folklore has allowed Black community members to remain relatively conscious of enduring legacies of marronage. folklore history marronage...

... Mexican muralism made a significant and lasting impact on the art produced by African Americans associated with the New Negro movement of the interwar period. Like their Mexican counterparts, African-descended artists in the United States were seeking to create a class-conscious artistic vision...

... of photography while rejecting the broader category. Using Callahan’s photographs, she suggests other meanings within such work that exceed its nominal subject matter, conscious authorial intention, or modernist aesthetics. Among these are the gendered attributes of public space and the psychosexual dynamics...

... Emergent ecologies are being shaped by a multitude of creative agents. Multispecies communities live in the minds of creatures like Ectatomma ants, conscious animals who actively care for other beings and things. Convivial plants also form assemblages with nectaries on their stems, sugary...

... and her sister Katie relied on their faith as they grew politically conscious. The chapter draws on biographies, newspaper clippings, school records, and family genealogy to contextualize the memory of a letter detailing the sisters' vision for the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa...

... explores how mirror neurons enable us to incorporate practices and observations “horizontally” that are below the level of linguistic complexity and conscious attention. Whitehead, prescient about Rizzolatti’s theory, explores how “scars” from past propensities not then enacted can foster bouts...

.... It is thus ultimately rooted in beliefs that the police spring from the same moral, cultural, and geographic origins as populations they surveil, categorize, and punish. Police see themselves as having made a conscious choice to become a human living correctly—becoming a cop and not a bandit, having clawed...

... Chapter 4 turns to the next generation of professionals and their dedication to making a new world in the middle decades of the twentieth century, before and after Independence and Partition in 1947. This generation lives amid increasing urbanization, specialization, and self-conscious history...

..., as a level of intensity that requires focused attention. Analogously, quiet photography names a heuristic for attending to the lower range of intensities generated by images assumed to be mute. The choice to “listen to” rather than simply “look at” images is a conscious decision to challenge the equation...