... These remarks were given on April 1, 2015, to about one thousand students, faculty, and others gathered in front of Duke Chapel to express their outrage over a racial incident—a rope noose found hanging in a tree on the Bryan Center Plaza. history of lynching racism 2015 ...

...The Incident ...

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... This chapter examines an incident of Diné resistance in 1913 to U.S. federal agents’ attempts to criminalize and punish traditional forms of marriage and sexuality, including polygamy and non-heterosexuality. It shows how over time the Diné have come to conflate nation(hood) with family...

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.... Inevitably crises arose as well. One of these involved the temporary suspension of Duke’s large program of clinical trials by a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Another involved the organ transplantation error that resulted in the death of a 17 year-old girl. Both incidents made...

... more intimately entwined with the apparatus of the state itself, with the incidence of violence tracing spatial divisions in urban space and national territories. The hypervisibility of violence in the contemporary public spheres of Mexico and Brazil resonates with early twentieth-century forms of mass...

... that pushed Piro into recounting the particular incident that she perceived as transformative in her life. She used her writing to justify her presence in the establishment and her closeness to her guru. The chapter unpacks the meanings of her metaphorical language, what she says, what she leaves unsaid...

... a spear and spear thrower. After a series of incidents the young woman became a creek. Chapter 4 puts this young woman’s ongoing existence in conversation with the desires of two other women: Linda Yarrowin, a contemporary middle-aged Indigenous woman, and Julia Gillard, the former Labor prime minister...

... on white women and children. The commission was prompted by several well-publicized cases where adult male African domestic servants were accused of assaulting white or Indian children. Scholars have long shown how such scares were used as a tool of white supremacy and have stressed that actual incidences...