...Preface<subtitle>“A Lot of History, a Severe History”</subtitle> “A lot of history, a severe history” is an oft-cited reference made by the birangonas , which refers to their experiences in the conflict and postconflict context. This chapter shows that the public memory of wartime rape...

... As in Africa, Cuban soldiers have fought in several Latin American and Caribbean countries. Most of these efforts failed; a few succeeded, and subsequent decades have seen the development of ongoing Cuban influences. Numbers of Latin American revolutionaries also trained in Cuba throughout...

... This chapter examines several evocative sonic landscapes in poetry, drama, and prose fiction. It uses these literary acoustic tableaux to introduce several key themes developed in the book: how the sonic register differs in significant ways from the visual, the relationship of sound to time...

... The interlude “Songify Your Life” conjures the querulously heartbreaking crossroads of race, sexuality, and voice-alteration technologies through one specific example that endures as the “real-world” doppelgänger of several of the pieces included in Feenin. Auto-Tune Auto-Tune the News...

... This chapter examines the experience of several indigenous communities in the Bracero Program. Recognizing the shifting meanings of race that indigenous migrants experienced in the United States, this chapter explores the formation of mid-twentieth-century racial constructs in Mexico...

... This short introduction sets the stage for the heart of the book by identifying several key interpretations and introducing the two authors. It notes how, like the target audience, the authors had to reach beyond their formal training as historians to come to grips with the wider Indian Ocean...

... of the various ways that it was read and used in the making of Galois theory. It shows that Galois’s successors did far more than simply fill in the gaps in Galois’s paper. Each of them made several additions and reorganized the paper. In fact, Galois’s readers constructed not one but several theories out of his...

... itself. The chapter provides an overview of several dimensions of this project—from resonance to movement, to complex system dynamics, to shock democracy—each of which is discussed separately in the several chapters that follow. It orients the reader to the author’s democratic action research experiments...