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... of incarceration. Their actions and peer-to-peer training exceed the discursive limits of the cap-and-gown narrative of other undocumented youth risking arrest. When IYC trainers brought their “Undocumented, Unafraid” workshops to Hawai?i, they sparked a youth-led reckoning with the complexity of migration...

... This chapter examines the “external” factors that fueled the scene’s overall growth, including the intertwined social networks connecting DJ crews, friends, peer-run student or church groups, middle-class parents and relatives, and Filipino community groups. Those networks formed the “social...

... This chapter examines the Greater Antillean routes in Díaz’s work to unveil how the Caribbean, a central site of the modern era’s most intense mobility of people, as a point of departure or destination, has given rise to diasporic formations. It places Díaz in relation to his peers...

... In her 2007 book Les Nouveaux blesses , Catherine Malabou stages an encounter between contemporary neuroscience and psychoanalysis that is without peer. She identifies a constituency she names as the “new wounded”; those whose brains are ineradicably changed as a result of brain damage...

..., keyboards, or horns—essentially as an mbira band with bass and drums. The tour showcases Mapfumo’s versatility and capacity to adapt, but it is again fraught with financial mismanagement. The chapter portrays Mapfumo at a moment of relative isolation and vulnerability, having lost many peers. The death...

... In The Half of It (2020), Ellie Chu, a young immigrant Chinese American girl and the sole Asian American in her school, grieves the loss of her mother. Her world, however, is largely determined by her relationships with her peers. A classmate, Paul Munsky, a gentle, white jock, pays her...

... Young people with cognitive disabilities often attend school alongside nondisabled peers. Once they leave school, many face the disability cliff, transitioning to nowhere, the title of a report describing the fate of many thrown into an underfunded and uncoordinated system after high school...

... with his sexual “identity” and that has seen him as challenging both the racial and sexual prejudices of his missionary peers. It uses the Yate scandal to explore a series of overlapping debates about the ways in which missionaries should modulate intimacy, the consequences of certain types of sexual acts...

... This chapter examines the Greater Antillean routes in Díaz’s work to unveil how the Caribbean, a central site of the modern era’s most intense mobility of people, as a point of departure or destination, has given rise to diasporic formations. It places Díaz in relation to his peers...

... Mapfumo at a moment of relative isolation and vulnerability, having lost many peers. The death of Bhundu Boys star Biggie Tembo and Mapfumo’s reaction are described. Back in Zimbabwe, Jonah Sithole, nearing his own death, rejoins the band for the third and last time. The chapter concludes with politics...