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Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers ...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers ...
Book Chapter

By Tom Özden-Schilling
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027669-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2766-9
... privileges. In early 2020, the first major sweep of arrests at Wet’suwet’en-run checkpoints inspired a national wave of solidarity protests—perhaps the largest Indigenous-led uprisings in Canada since the original War in the Woods. Examining how some retrospective debates over failed consultation protocols...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059264-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
..., it is generally not counted in Euro-American descriptions of “Asianness.” When it comes to representing the region, the portrayals border on extreme exoticization or sweeping generalizations. Chapter 8 analyzes the construction of South Asia and the Indian subcontinent within video games. In doing so, it invokes...
Book Chapter

By Louis Sell
Published: 15 July 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374008-018
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7400-8
... This chapter describes Gorbachev’s doomed efforts to negotiate a new union treaty; the catastrophic economic situation across the USSR; Yeltsin’s decision to adopt a sweeping, separate program of economic reform in Russia; the December Ukrainian independence referendum, which marked...
Published: 21 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375548-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... independent institutions in California. When the author moved to Claremont to serve as chaplain, the idealism and activism sweeping the country in the 1960s had not yet visibly touched the Claremont campuses, renowned for their academic rigor. Within a few years, the campuses became hotbeds of protests...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022978-026
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
... a sweeping move in the direction of republicanism, egalitarian opportunity, federalism, and secularism. As the readings in part IV illustrate, not until the last quarter of the century was peace and a modicum of conciliation achieved. Even then, social problems seethed beneath the surface of an entrenched...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 11 November 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373759-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7375-9
... place during the rule of General Juan Velasco’s Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, which pursued progressive reform, including a sweeping agrarian reform. This chapter explores how that reform impacted Llamojha’s work as a rural activist, his pointed opposition to the legislation, and how...
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374336-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7433-6
... their sweep in the late 1970s, and bookwomen defined their bookstores, against capitalism, as movement spaces sustaining feminist knowledge. feminist literary activism Literary Industrial Corporate Establishment (LICE) A Woman’s Place Portland Oregon ...
Published: 02 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374800-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7480-0
... A multitude of exotic animals lives within homes and jungly backyards of Florida. Flexible strategies for accumulating and selling valuable animals has helped countless Floridians adapt to sweeping changes in political and economic landscapes. Some kinds of valuable critters, like snakes, resist...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-090
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... past and present. His brief for indianismo was marked by fierce and visionary language. He argued throughout his life that indigenous beliefs and practices were superior to those of the decadent West and that a violent revolution was needed to sweep clear the vestiges of colonialism that oppressed...
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
.... In this chapter the setting is the Claremont Colleges, a unique consortium of seven independent institutions in California. When the author moved to Claremont to serve as chaplain, the idealism and activism sweeping the country in the 1960s had not yet visibly touched the Claremont campuses, renowned...
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
...Ground Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... in Euro-American descriptions of “Asianness.” When it comes to representing the region, the portrayals border on extreme exoticization or sweeping generalizations. Chapter 8 analyzes the construction of South Asia and the Indian subcontinent within video games. In doing so, it invokes comparisons...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-073
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... of the decadent West and that a violent revolution was needed to sweep clear the vestiges of colonialism that oppressed Bolivia and kept its indigenous populations in shackles. In his most famous work, La revolución india (1969), Reinaga used a critique of the statues and street names in La Paz to reveal how...