... the possibility of trying on changing ideas about masculinity. The chapter depicts gendered lyrics, ways of improvising with them, principles of individual competition, and the specification of masculine affects in the praise names to which dancers improvise their moves. As sites of flirtation and courting, ngoma...

... migrant labor courting and flirtation sensory immersion praise names ...

... Cuba African-inspired praise bembé feasts origami fold becoming ...

... In the countryside of central Cuba, African-inspired feasts conjoin West African, Kongo, and Catholic sources in a complex musical, theatrical, and affective praise style that prizes new shapes and new fates. This is an ethnographic encounter with the problem of mutually affirmed social...

... At the 2014 commencement address at Miami Dade College, Richard Brodhead praises the college for its history of providing opportunities and salutes its graduates. Miami Dade College Commencement address 2014 ...

... Helene, trying to inspire Hettie after memoir rejection, sends inspiring quotes. Hettie takes job teaching at Sing Sing prison. Memoir revision is accepted by E. P. Dutton, praised by young readers. Helene’s brother Jack dies. Hettie reports March on Washington for abortion rights. In August...

... Thompson, the woman in the photograph, reveals her version of the encounter and her distress at being made to be the poster child of poverty. Walker Evans’s photographs are responded to by poet Maggie Anderson, and the people depicted in James Agee's and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men talk...

... Western and traditional Indonesian concepts of beauty in literature. Pramoedya identifies and praises a quality in Wright’s writing that he defines as “bitter realism,” a refusal to allow the reader to respond sentimentally to the depiction of suffering and oppression. Pramoedya’s admiration for Wright...

... This chapter includes speeches that reflect on the state of higher education in the United States. One speech discusses the history of the creation of the Black studies program at Washington State University, while another praises women's colleges and emphasizes the need for universal education...

... exercises the performances for legitimacy. The former warden Mark Kawika Patterson and the Women's Community Correctional Center are the recipients of much public praise for the Kailua Prison Writing Project, and for the Prison Monologues in particular, which reinforces the redemptive notion of the “prison...