... stories, for showing me other worlds. Thank you. All of you, each and every one, I love. DEDICATION / ACKNOWL EDGMENTS ...

... DEDICATED TO YOU Drafted during the jazz hours of spring semester 2009 in Berke- ley, and fleshed out over the next year and a half in Accra and Santa Fe, this book occasions many dedications to many you s. At the top of the list comes Nii Noi Nortey, Nii Otoo Annan, Nii Yemo Nunu, Nana Agazi...

... Cultural and aesthetic critique (under attack in a market-driven world) confront a secular age that has eroded beliefs in history’s happy endings guaranteed by revolution or religion that once grounded politically engaged criticism. Such criticism dedicated itself to deciphering the barbaric...

... military regimes in the 1960s. He also dedicated a chapter of his dark book to the grim destiny of mineworkers. In his account, the highland mining camps were cemeteries full of men who aged and died prematurely, whose bodies were poisoned, and whose labor enriched New York and London more than it did...

... genome. The postgenomic era instantiates a shift from an earlier conception of the genome as an effectively static collection of active genes to one of a dynamic and reactive system dedicated to the context specific regulation of protein coding sequences. ...

... Anzaldúa introduces her book by explaining its multi-layered focus and inviting readers to participate in her literary desires. Reflecting on her own experiences and struggles as a dedicated artist, the author calls for a new aesthetics, an entirely embodied artistic practice that synthesizes...

... Danceteria sent shockwaves through the city’s party scene when it opened in May 1980, all the way to the Mudd Club, where owners Jim Fouratt and Rudolf Piper had spent a fair amount of time hanging out. Dedicating the basement to DJ-ing, the first floor to live bands, and the second floor to...

... This chapter explores the Sonagi Village tourist attraction in Yangp’yŏng, South Korea, dedicated to the Korean novelist Hwang Sun-wŏn’s classic postwar short story “Sonagi” (1959), and the way in which Daisy (2006), a collaboration between the Hong Kong director Andrew Lau and the Korean...

... The introduction considers Manuel Llamojha Mitma’s historical importance, arguing that his remarkable life offers a means for understanding Peru’s troubled twentieth century. The introduction explores how Llamojha struggled against the realities of anti-Indianism in Peru, dedicating his...

... This chapter examines Llamojha’s emergence as an activist, exploring why he dedicated his life to a struggle for social justice and showing how his dreams and ambitions transgressed the boundaries of the expected life course of an indigenous peasant. The chapter explains how he learned to read...

... slumming about gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn with dogs, strollers, and condos . . . soooo not the 99 percent). A poem dedicated to dream hampton on hip-hop (“the first musical movement in history where black people pimped themselves before the white boy did”) and an essay on hip-hop’s thirtieth...

... Before Hettie can publish, Amiri’s book appears with her name changed; she is also shunned by contemporaries whenever he’s around. Helene reveals that the dedication to her in Ed’s republished novel has been deleted. Hettie, deciding her memoir may profit young women, continues to write, helped...

... lesser known writers that the book focuses on, and the common themes found in their works: the dedication to perpetuate the language and the indigenous knowledge carried by it; the foresight to preserve that knowledge from the past for future generations (moʻokūʻauhau consciousness); aloha ʻāina, the...