...The Sixth Century ...

... As petrocapitalism precipitates the sixth mass extinction, it is important to remember that this is not the first global ecocide. Under nuclear imperialism, the relationships between humans and archipelagic creatures were brutally shattered as fish and birds became irradiated. Close reading...

... This a short interstitial chapter reports on the author's entry into the thirty-sixth Annual World Bodysurfing Championship, held in Oceanside, California, in 2012. It argues that surfing techniques, contoured by gender, race, and class, shape what surfers take waves to be. bodysurfing...

... The sixth chapter follows the history of the self-portrait done through cameras like Kodak and Fuji and the corporate objectives behind these products. It analyzes the democratization of photography through affordable means of taking pictures. And it looks at the selfie in the tradition of auto...

... The sixth set of seven letters of Mu marks the movement of black life and death beyond legal logics of self-evident truth. Especially listening to audio evidence, while reading written laws and evidence gathered in prosecutions of police for lethal use of force against black citizens, writing...

... siblings, and devotion to her youngest brother, Abel. Her father and mother were immigrants from Galicia, Spain; he became a foreman and carpenter at the mill, she a housewife. Haydée was only able to study through sixth grade, at a one-room country schoolhouse. Conservative values and her courageous...

... The introduction begins with an anecdote about reggaetón performance by Los 12 Discípulos at the Sixth Annual Latin Grammys. It provides background on Puerto Rican race relations, including definitions of discourses of racial democracy, an overview of the history of slavery on the island...

... Casa de las Américas is one of the most important arts institutions in Latin America. Founded and run by Haydée, it brought the world’s great artists to the Revolution and made their art available to the Cuban public. Despite a scant sixth grade education, Haydée informed herself and established...

..., dinosaurs) have occurred. We may be in the midst of the sixth extinction now. The warming climate affects food production, leading to famine. Syria and Madagascar suffered recent famines; Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are on the brink of famine. Arctic permafrost melting causes damage to buildings...