... This chapter revisits W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk in the effort to draw out a relevant tension in the text. On the one hand, Du Bois seems to assimilate black strivings into a progressive, teleological narrative that finds its culmination in the civic nation and the ideals...

... In his inaugural address to the Duke community in 2004, President Brodhead characterizes Duke as a university that has always been rising and striving for greatness. He reflects on the relationship between theory and practice in academic research. He also notes the cost of higher education...

... The introduction sets up the history of anthropology’s comparative approach, initiated by Mauss and Weber. It argues against striving for unified theories, though, resisting the growing tendency to define science as a method of model making based on variables and quantitative samples...

... Fake experience is a constant in contemporary culture. We strive for authenticity. But authentic is easy to hide, easy to replicate. Tourist travel is full of fake experience and false emotions. People want to experience extreme yet controlled sensations—and companies and governments are ready...

... when attached to collective images of the nation, justify various forms of violence and erasure. On other hand, the postracial signifies the ways racial striving and loss are mediated and informed by other subject positions and identities, including gender, class, and citizenship. In this chapter, I...

... movements. The first proposition is introduced to distinguish between avant-gardes that strive to transform the world (aesthetic avant-gardes) and those that offer new artistic representations (artistic avant-gardes). The second designates transformations that substantially affect and transform our ways...

... Blackness came into being with the figure of the Black slave, capitalism’s most visible symbol of the possibility of violence without limits and of vulnerability without a safety net. Without restitution, reparation, and a striving toward universal justice, the Becoming Black of the world...

... settlers on the urban periphery strive to become visible as lives at risk in order to be recognized as citizens with rights. To demonstrate how risk management impacts urban politics, this chapter highlights situations in which the entitlements of urban citizens are mediated by and predicated on the degree...

... in particular instances through situated and singular practices. This book engages Guatemalans’ experiences via number but also strives to unsettle readers’ relations to counting, especially the idea that mathematics is the only true universal language. ...

... to Black women who sacrifice themselves through their person, bodies, and lives to position themselves at the center of white supremacist political institutions. The chapter argues that Franco represents and embodies alternative visions and projects that strive for social justice, equality, and collective...

... art and the real world. As such, it is broadening and expanding the territory of art, striving in its own unique way—in this, it paradoxically resembles the dream of many early avant-gardes—to interpolate the sensible between art and life. Neue Slowenische Kunst retro-avant-garde Slovenia...

..., and popular discourses on the minimal-house-techno spectrum. In contrast to psychoanalytic theories of ecstatic self-shattering and radical transformation (such as jouissance and limit-experience), partygoers seeking rough experiences strive for the more modest pleasures of “coming undone”: stretching...

... strivings for the in-common are visible in classic Black art and Christian traditions. Negritude Marcus Garvey Aimé Césaire Frantz Fanon Nelson Mandela ...

...Building the Road They’re Walking Part V, “Building the Road They're Walking,” examines how women are striving to safeguard their gains. Interviewees are candid about the fact that key political offices carry great symbolic weight. However, cultural norms persist, particularly within rural...

... As part of its development efforts in the West, the Chinese government has encouraged Tibetan herders to become market-oriented, rational economic actors who strive to maximize their livestock off-take rate. In response to the increasing slaughter rate, Tibetan religious leaders have asked...

... cosmopolitanism. The animated television series Daria , made on the limited cel model, provides a multilayered pedagogy for the ways that tripartite cynicism can strive to achieve radically incremental gains—and thus how it can be embraced by the scholar who accepts working within the university yet who resists...

..., and render ambiguous cherished values like freedom, agency, and liberation. By offering a close reading of several chapters in the text this chapter shows how death, loss, and trauma haunt and unsettle political categories and ideals typically associated with black strivings and progress. The chapter...

... Fake experience is a constant in contemporary culture. We strive for authenticity. But authentic is easy to hide, easy to replicate. Tourist travel is full of fake experience and false emotions. People want to experience extreme yet controlled sensations—and companies and governments are ready...

... visions and projects that strive for social justice, equality, and collective and inclusive agendas. Marielle Franco Black Geographies Brazil favelas white nationalism ...