... 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. ...

...302 Rastafari and the Coral Gardens Incident John Maxwell and Mortimo Togo Desta Planno Not a year into independence, a tragic episode occurred in Coral Gardens in St. James parish that was a harbinger of the class and cultural tensions that would emerge in independent Jamaica. The victims of the...

...282 Official Communique on Incidents in the Dominican Republic Governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic This is a joint statement in response to violence on the northern frontier between Haiti and the Dominican Republic by officials from the two countries. The statement describes the...

.... 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...

... 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...

...a u t h o r s n o t e All the characters and places in this book are real. I have used pseudonyms in some cases in order to protect peo- ple s identities. I have also slightly altered personal de- scriptions and shifted the dates of some incidents that took place in the course of my investigation...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... This chapter investigates two major protest movements that unfolded in the summer of 1931 in northern Okinawa, the Oogimi Village Reform Movement and the Arashiyama Incident. It situates these movements within the development of internal tensions that were accelerated by the collapse of...