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.... This chapter exposes the fabricated nature of excited delirium syndrome, its entanglement with the medicalizing of police killings, and how corporate interests drive these practices. Guided by Afro-Latiné religious traditions and decolonial approaches to social scientific knowledge, the author launches...

... The introduction theorizes Junot Díaz’s decolonial imagination, arguing that Díaz employs the creative faculty of the imagination to envision a radically different world, a world not structured through dominance but through solidarity. The introduction gives a biographical account of Díaz’s...

... An emergence of performance art in postwar Central America facilitated a critical approach to gender, sexuality, and desire beyond the right-/left-wing rhetoric of decades prior. Through embodied acts, artists expose the coloniality of gender and unravel how heteropatriarchal culture...

..., these artists created Bodega Surrealism, an avant-garde approach to art that embraced their working-class identities and harnessed creativity for social change. The NRV, founded in 1976, served as a haven for Latina/o/x artists seeking alternative spaces to showcase their subjectivity and combat neglect. Adál...

... apparatus, and the liberal emphasis on individual freedom and rights. Carl Schmitt nomos autonomy workerism/operaismo post-autonomima decoloniality indigeneity This chapter traces the genealogical line connecting European (and especially Italian) autonomist movements to the diverse...

... the pragmatic turn to a more proportional scale of life and the rejection of the centralized Leninist-Statist approaches that have characterized both the left and the right over the past century. At the heart of these autonomist movements is “the creativity of real men and women, of ordinary people, who...

..., which claims that one laughs at other people or situations because one feels superior to them. Bakhtin expanded the Western approach to laughter when he underscored how carnivalesque laughter resists the political status quo. This chapter contends that Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...

... for addressing the pervasive issue of police restraint asphyxiation and the medicalization of police violence. By exploring the global awareness generated by Floyd's death, the chapter uncovers the potential for transformative change. It reflects on the power of Afro-Latiné approaches to provide alternative...

... medical gaze objectified the dead bodies of Black and Brown immigrants. Wetli's focus on tattoos as markers of deviance and criminal behavior reflects the biased lens through which he viewed and analyzed the bodies of these marginalized people. Situating Wetli's approach to the bodies of the Marielitos...

... superior to them. Bakhtin expanded the Western approach to laughter when he underscored how carnivalesque laughter resists the political status quo. This chapter contends that Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao structures a fascinating interplay between sudden glory and the carnivalesque...

... This chapter traces the genealogical line connecting European (and especially Italian) autonomist movements to the diverse struggles for, and debates about, autonomy in current decolonial movements in North and South America. De Bloois argues that the Italian movements of the 1970s understood...

... “they,” and the chapter discusses how to address these disadvantages. Using a comparative analysis and employing a decolonial perspective that decenters English, the chapter seeks to contribute to a future of radical gender inclusion and to demonstrate the power of queer anthropology to contribute to crucial contemporary...

... Rican artists Adál Maldonado and Sandra María Esteves at the New Rican Village (NRV) cultural arts and education center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Focused on challenging social alienation and mainstream art institutions, these artists created Bodega Surrealism, an avant-garde approach to art...