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Published: 01 January 1989
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382331-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8233-1
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By Paulo Fontes
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7429-9
... São Paulo urbanization working-class community Brazilian industrialization ...
Book Chapter

By Paulo Fontes
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7429-9
... popular culture working-class community workers’ everyday life ...
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374299-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7429-9
... of the local workforce created unusual conditions for the formation of a working-class community. São Paulo urbanization working-class community Brazilian industrialization ...
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374299-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7429-9
... of a Northeastern identity among migrant workers overlapped with ideals of work and worker. popular culture working-class community workers’ everyday life ...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374572-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
... the workings of this translative force among early twenty-first-century middle-class Filipinos in the context of a particular historical event: the civilian-backed coup that overthrew President Joseph Estrada in 2001. The focus is on two distinct but related media: the cell phone and the crowd. Cell phones...
Published: 14 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375210-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7521-0
... While the disjuncture between the city’s built form and its water pipes seems to suggest that the world-class city would also be a dry city, this is not the case; the city’s new malls, gated communities, shimmering office towers, and glittering hotels do, generally speaking, get water...
Published: 20 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027287-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2728-7
... gay male cultural phenomena that expose fundamental racisms, sexisms, and classisms. The subsequent interlude examines the ways patrons at working-class gay bars in Seattle resisted new gay liberation-era ideologies and community services in the early 1970s. gentrification urban renewal Boston...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... This chapter extends the book's key argument regarding the relationship between health inequities and health/communicative inequities. Like the "carceral apparatus" (Loïc Wacquant) that dominates the lives of U.S. working-class African Americans, officials' responses to the 1992–1993 cholera...
Published: 15 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027416-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2741-6
... A small, working-class enclave tucked into south central Los Angeles County, Watts played a leading role in the life of the African American community in 1965, when African Americans took to the streets en masse in response to growing social and economic inequalities. In the years that followed...
Series: Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Published: 01 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059165-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5916-5
... that foregrounded the fight for racial justice in the face of inequality and systematic repression. They often found it difficult to reconcile their ambitions with the desires of their patrons as they sought to use art to raise political, class, and racial consciousness within their own communities. These African...
Published: 27 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375579-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7557-9
...-signifying liberal icons like Father Hidalgo and Benito Juárez as working-class heroes whose vision of an egalitarian, democratic Mexico had been subverted by self-serving, power hungry elites. This chapter and two that follow seek to illuminate the rhetorical strategies of a liberal populism that sought...
Book Chapter

By Lucas Hilderbrand
Published: 20 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2728-7
... gay male cultural phenomena that expose fundamental racisms, sexisms, and classisms. The subsequent interlude examines the ways patrons at working-class gay bars in Seattle resisted new gay liberation-era ideologies and community services in the early 1970s. Discriminatory admission practices...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060376-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6037-6
... Chapter 2 discusses the architectural and physical surroundings in which men, women, and children of diverse classes and communities lived, made their homes, and managed domestic life in colonial and postcolonial India. Since physical structures often tell us little, if divorced from a knowledge...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027478-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... to move beyond the resignation of Adorno’s later work through theories of “communicative action” and “recognition.” Readers encounter a significant parallel to the concept of social labor in the cultural modalities of “new social movements” during the 1960s and 1970s, which addressed forms of oppression...
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
...The Twenty-First Century<subtitle>Leadership and Public Values</subtitle> This chapter describes a partnership launched by the author between two world-class universities (Duke and the University of Cape Town) to help build a culture of ethical and effective leadership in southern Africa...
Published: 04 November 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373537-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7353-7
... Grassroots activism was a critical part of the context that influenced Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and the men and women who would join the BPP. This chapter focuses on local working-class activism in the black community and the relationships and networks among activists. Organizations like...
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 15 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027805-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9378-7
... of affective communities, and the Yugoslav military, despite being a total, compulsory, all-male, oppressive, and strictly hierarchical institution, was explicitly engaged in this affective work, oriented toward building friendships, solidarities, and ties across ethnic, class, and gender divisions...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
..., these artists created Bodega Surrealism, an avant-garde approach to art that embraced their working-class identities and harnessed creativity for social change. The NRV, founded in 1976, served as a haven for Latina/o/x artists seeking alternative spaces to showcase their subjectivity and combat neglect. Adál...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-080
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... the external battle fought on the front lines between Bolivians and Paraguayans and even more so the internal battle between a repressive government, indigenous communities subject to landlord violence and forced military recruitment, and the persecuted working class and political left with which he identified...