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Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 28 August 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383284-029
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8328-4
Published: 15 May 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009214-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0921-4
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... Perfection and optimization are terms that originate in moral and metaphysical discourse. Perfection refers to something having been fully accomplished, to something in a state of completion. Perfection connotes maturity, development, the absolute, flawlessness, purity. By contrast, optimization...
Published: 15 April 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004356-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0435-6
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By Susan Stryker, McKenzie Wark
Series: ASTERISK
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059462-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5946-2
... “Perfect Day” is a personal essay bracketing the 1990s in a longer arc, ending in the author's more settled life of kids, partners, blended families, and all that. It starts by winding back to the author's teen years. “Living as a man was nonconsensual,” the author writes of her teenage self...
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By Davin Heckman
Published: 01 January 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388845-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8884-5
Published: 21 June 2002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8336-9
Published: 04 August 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822377382-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7738-2
Published: 01 January 1991
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381679-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8167-9
Published: 23 September 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7385-8
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By Mark Poster
Published: 09 August 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388470-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8847-0
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022978-101
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
... of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part IX elaborates on themes of the volume, engaging issues at the local, national, and transnational levels and underscoring how recent Mexican history must be viewed in dialogue with U.S. history, and vice versa. From the Perfect Dictatorship to an Imperfect Democracy NAFTA...
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By Amelie Hastie
Series: Spin-Offs
Published: 12 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027591
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2759-1
Series: New Americanists
Published: 04 January 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393870-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9387-0
Published: 23 September 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7385-8
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... of a number of substantial reclamation projects around its perimeter. Chapter 12 attempts to trace and summarize some of these key developments, together with an assessment of their achievement in terms of progress toward the “perfect city.” These new developments had an essentially practical value, providing...
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By Faith Ringgold
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386797-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8679-7
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027577-028
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2757-7
Published: 01 January 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388845
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8884-5
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 03 September 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380771-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8077-1