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By Matthew Guariglia
Published: 13 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... police intellectuals police archives early carceral state race-making ...
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027546-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... The introduction presents the “police intellectuals” and explores their attempts to modernize the department, motivated by the fear that a rapidly diversifying New York City had become terra incognita, or unknowable space, because of immigration. “Police intellectuals” were people in politics...
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027546-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... they struggled to question the physical person. Part of the intellectualizing and globalizing of this model of policing was the creation and dissemination of academic disciplines that legitimized policing procedure as “color-blind” and empirical. police surveillance fingerprinting Bertillon method...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375319-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
... An elderly member of an Afro-Cuban house temple in Santiago’s barrio Los Hoyos recounts the 1931 police raid of her father’s bembé (drumming ceremony) held in honor of the Virgin. The chapter interprets the restrictions of the Machado dictatorship (1925–33), which purged Cuban streets of black...
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By Didier Fassin
Published: 12 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7287-5
... experienced as he was preparing to deliver a lecture at a Palestinian university. Whereas he perceived that the role of the intellectual in such circumstances is less to affirm new ideas than to confirm what his audience already knows, thus manifesting his support for their cause, he nevertheless took...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
...Regal Streets, 1931–1936 An elderly member of an Afro-Cuban house temple in Santiago’s barrio Los Hoyos recounts the 1931 police raid of her father’s bembé (drumming ceremony) held in honor of the Virgin. The chapter interprets the restrictions of the Machado dictatorship (1925–33), which...
Published: 13 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... as an ethical imperative animates this exercise. The focus on freedom, even as an unrealized, perhaps unrealizable condition, forces readers to move beyond, if not against, the very grammars, practices, and traditional claims of justice. antiblackness Brazil police operations United States carceral...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... coca” policy aimed at eradicating 100 percent of the coca plantations in the Chapare. In protest, thousands of coca growers marched in the city of Chapare and engaged in confrontations with the police. During the violence, pro-coca demonstrators seized, tortured, and killed two policemen. Congress...
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By Ann Snitow
Published: 14 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7567-8
... feminist psychology This piece summarizes the argument of a key theoretical book of the late seventies, The Mermaid and the Minotaur, and includes a brief intellectual biography of its author, Dorothy Dinnerstein, whose work as a feminist psychologist took off from Freud, Ruth Benedict, Melanie Klein...