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... nominative record linkage Ginzburg slavery freedom ...

...Foreword to the Brazilian Edition The foreword emphasizes the importance of Crossroads of Freedom for the study of slavery and freedom in Brazil. It emphasizes the originality of the author’s use of nominative record linkage, a methodology introduced by Carlo Ginzburg, to trace individuals...

... The conclusion looks at the process behind the nomination of rumba to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; it serves as a bridge to return to the main contributions and commitments of the Black corporeal undercommons. It also draws out the necessary...

... by thirty-one African American artists, who explore contemporary social issues, modes of making, and personal mythologies through various approaches to abstraction and other diverse representational strategies. The chapter argues for the continued value and importance of exhibitions that are nominally...

... This chapter traces some of the highlights of actor Peter Falk’s career before he became Lt. Columbo. Nominated for both Emmy and Academy Awards two years running, in 1961 and 1962, he ultimately won an Emmy for the teleplay “The Price of Tomatoes” in 1962. Throughout the 1960s, Falk often...

... 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...

... This chapter is a study of feminist activism nominally designed to “take back the night” as a means to augment women's safety and community. The chapter argues that Take Back the Night protests embrace the significance of night and perform an opposition to Enlightenment norms and institutions...

.... This episode is followed by an analysis of John Langdon Down’s nomination of “Mongoloid idiocy,” for which his constitutional diagnostics make a glancing but critical turn to the chemical presence /absence of opium. Slowness becomes a material emergence of the mongoloid figure within an affected white child...

... the social spectrum to repudiate the regime. Initially, Mexico was united in a revolutionary coalition nominally led by the moderate reformer Francisco Madero, who toppled Díaz in mid-1911. But the country entered a decade of violence when Madero failed to advance an adequate reform agenda and was toppled...

... This chapter charts a genealogy of rationalist engagements with science in black antebellum culture and thinks about the purchase of nonempirical thinking for enslaved and nominally free people in the age of slavery. It begins with the complicated status of reason amid transformations in science...

... while proliferating the nominal artist’s individual celebrity. At once drawing upon his assistants’ subjectivity while simultaneously thwarting their creative contributions through three main forms of disruption, Kippenberger is understood to have set into motion two interlocking feedback loops...

... of the period. This chapter charts a genealogy of rationalist engagements with science in black antebellum culture and thinks about the purchase of nonempirical thinking for enslaved and nominally free people in the age of slavery. It begins with the complicated status of reason amid transformations...

... mythologies through various approaches to abstraction and other diverse representational strategies. The chapter argues for the continued value and importance of exhibitions that are nominally organized along lines of shared identity. race exhibition history art collecting contemporary art...