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By Gastón R. Gordillo
Published: 15 November 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386025-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8602-5
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By Rafael Campo
Book: The Enemy
Published: 17 April 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389576-034
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8957-6
Published: 09 August 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382652-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8265-2
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By Renée Green
Published: 15 October 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376484-047
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7648-4
Published: 15 July 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374008-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7400-8
Series: New Americanists
Published: 28 June 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383048-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8304-8
Series: Series Q
Published: 10 January 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393337-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9333-7
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 31 October 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383840-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8384-0
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387015-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8701-5
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-025
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Describes the wealthy black woman who lived next door to Mennonite House, and her complicated belief system—she supported integration and civil rights activism, but came from a family that owned slaves themselves, and seemed proud of this as well. Mennonite House wealthy African Americans...
Book: Brutalism
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 24 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027720-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2772-0
... Pretend as we might that technological acceleration and the transition to a computational civilization leads to salvation, the history of humanity on Earth seems already to have been consummated. Time itself may well have lost all potentiality. The ecological system has been so badly damaged...
Published: 21 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375548-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... This chapter seeks to distil the lessons learned from Nelson Mandela about reconciliation, forgiveness, diplomacy, and leadership. It also describes the transactional political culture that led to an extraordinary faith in the potential of negotiations to resolve conflicts that once seemed...
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By Gayatri Gopinath
Published: 16 November 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002161-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... The concepts of diaspora and indigeneity are often framed as antithetical: diaspora by its very definition seems to privilege mobility, hybridity, and migration, while indigeneity by its very definition seems to privilege rootedness, belonging, and authenticity. Chapter 3 proposes...
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By Lennard J. Davis
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059974-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5997-4
... prevalent of these myths. The conclusion is that poor people are not dramatically different biologically or psychologically from their richer counterparts, but the genre of poornography has made them seem so. race sexuality drunkenness biopolitics ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060383-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Forty years after the Sandinista revolution that brought excitement and hope to young people all over the world, Nicaragua is ruled, ruthlessly, by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, an elderly married couple who seem destined to die in power. Chapter 8 discusses the evolution of Ortega from...
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By Anne L. Foster
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027553-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2755-3
... Humans seem to have sought mind-altering experiences through drug consumption throughout history. Many drugs historically were only grown, produced, and consumed locally. After 1500, global trade in drugs began, leading to changes in consumption patterns. Drugs with local traditions of use...
Series: Art History Publication Initiative
Published: 09 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373681-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7368-1
... The conclusion attempts to limn latent, nascent currents in culture originating from the fraught civil wars fought between labor and capital several decades ago, a war that the victor, capital, seems to have won, thereby permanently suppressing histories of the vanquished. So it would seem...
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By Emilia Sanabria
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 22 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374190-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7419-0
... and the social construction of the sexed body. Through an analysis of the diverse prescribed and informal hormonal regimes adopted in Salvador, this chapter shows how the uses made of sex hormones re-inscribe sexual dualism at the point at which it would seem to be menaced. It shows how the uses made of sex...
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By Eric Weisbard
Book: Hound Dog
Series: Singles
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027072-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2707-2
... Intro. The striking of Elvis Presley's “Hound Dog” from the most recent Rolling Stone list of pop's five hundred greatest songs, replaced by Big Mama Thornton's version, puts a subject on the table: how we think about rock and roll in an era when the punk critique, over style, seems almost...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... and interested to hear what they had to say, but couldn’t quite seem to accept it. The chapter ends with Rosemarie’s memory of seeing a kind of aura around Martin Luther King Jr. Mennonite Church Cleveland Mississippi “advance team” work Martin Luther King Jr. ...