... This chapter examines the imagined futures that shape U.S.-based interviewees’ present activism. Undocumented and temporarily authorized youth have sought the right to regularize their status, Central American students have founded new transnational campus organizations, and Salvadoran youth...

... Chapter 4 examines the New Life Movement launched in 1934, focusing on the ways in which it sought to fix everyday life in a twofold sense. First, it examines how fascists touted rationalized Confucian precepts to foster the national unity that they believed necessary for industrial productivity...

... This chapter provides an ethnographic account of representational conflict between a missionary, church-supported radio network serving the specific interests of northeast Arnhem Land’s Yolngu people, and TEABBA, who sought to reach a more diverse Indigenous audience that would include Yolngu...

... This short interstitial chapter examines how ocean waves have been represented in music and sound art, attending to how these forms have sought to ventriloquize, mimic, measure, or record waves speaking, singing, sounding, and noising. waves music sound art ...

... This chapter looks at a similar set of politics in Southern Rhodesia (contemporary Zimbabwe), where multiracial people similarly sought attention from the colonial state. In particular, it looks at print culture and its employment for engaging in these politics. racial identification...

..., was the long-sought serial killer known as the Unabomber. The second half of the chapter describes how, after reading the Unabomber’s manifesto in the Washington Post , the couple faced an intense ethical dilemma that pitted family loyalty against a moral imperative to stop the Unabomber’s violence...

... This chapter analyzes how state political repression shaped the decisions the BPP made and the possibilities it sought as it evolved as an organization. It argues that the party’s responses to repression would shape its development and impact its strategies, tactics, and goals. The purges...

... 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...

... Mignon Nixon appraises a wide variety of representations of the psychoanalytic situation in her essay “On the Couch,” first published in the journal October in 2005. The essay both gathers and interrogates a suite of visual projects that have sought to make the clinical scene visible in film...

... Front’s 1968 strike. That historic strike for Third World studies sought to disrupt the relation of teacher-colonizer and student-colonized and seek the creation of a people who had been denied a history and culture. miseducation national culture consciousness pedagogy of the oppressed ...

... be like to stand on its surface. Learning how to see an exoplanet in the abstract data is a lesson in world building that professor Sara Seager sought to teach her graduate and undergraduate students. pedagogy exoplanets visualization Sara Seager analogy ...

... of their deportation, and many Salvadoran youth living in the United States sought to travel to El Salvador to revisit their pasts. Analyzing these practices reveals the ways that biographies are deployed to recuperate memory and claim membership Temporary Protected Status undocumented immigrants diaspora...

... This chapter follows Generation 98’s journey through the 2004 national and presidential elections, as activists sought to keep the goals of Reform alive by renewing their ties to each other and to “the People.” As Indonesia’s electoral democracy began to be dominated by established political...

... In 1930s Japan, the encounter between reality and its representation led to the critique of fascism by the leftist-liberal writer Hasegawa Nyozekan, who sought to link fascism to the medium-low level of capitalist development in societies like Italy and Japan. Hasegawa saw Japan as caught...

... , the Watts Summer Festival, Alonzo Davis and Dale Brockman Davis’s Brockman Gallery, etc.). It also explores how cultural workers such as Cecil Fergerson and Samella Lewis sought to integrate existing American establishments (i.e., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art). The role of art collectors...

... Assocation (UGMA) with such a purpose in mind. They sought inspiration in the wisdom of shared historical experiences, which ranged from traditional West and West Central African cultures, through the social bonding required to survive the depredations of slavery, to communal values developed during...

... This chapter features Patricia Ybarra’s interview with Machos director and Teatro Luna cofounder Coya Paz. In this interview, Paz elucidates how Teatro Luna created Machos , sharing that the group initially sought to interview men about Latina women and to perform as men talking about Latina...

... individual versions of the expression of ulaka. Ulaka is a sense of propriety, a justification to act, such as in response to a sung or danced provocation. Ulaka is also sought and cultivated kinetically. The technique of pushing the body to the edge while holding its movement just in control mirrors...

... warrior culture after the Spanish conquest. A peace treaty of 1859 sought to stabilize the frontier. In it we can see how the raiding of farms and livestock by the Tobas restricted the expansion of agrarian estates. The white settlers used Franciscan missionaries as their intermediaries while also...

... the Trial Chamber. The chapter also discusses the civil parties, including S-21 survivors and painters Vann Nath and Bou Meng, along with mechanic Chhum Mey. Along the way, the chapter suggests that the prosecution sought to portray Duch as a “man,” while the defense homed in on the argument that he...