...Divya Victor On Race and Innovation Dossier / Victor 51 Divya Victor from Kith Color: A Sequence of Unbearable Happenings The story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would remain an unbearable sequence of sheer happenings. —Hannah...

..., such as exemplification, imitation, and play. The central case study through which I elaborate the aforesaid concepts and dimensions is Benjamin’s treatment of the colors of fantasy. As I suggest toward the end of my essay, some of the lessons that I draw from Benjamin’s account of the child’s view of color have bearing...

....” This was in elaboration of Pamuk's assessment of the art of the novel to be about “drawing a picture [of the world of others],” of “getting the world right through words as painters use colors.” Clearly, Pamuk's assessment belongs, albeit in a peculiar way, to the history of mimeticism that Stephen Halliwell traces from...

..., the implications of the political unfolding of the Arab Spring in Egypt. With a consensus that the Egyptian revolution is not a color revolution, Samir Amin examines the components and strategies of the movement that brought down the Mubarak regime, the formation of Popular Committees and the National Council...

... as performative speech acts. At the site where language, race, and religion–the positive symptoms of decadence–are knotted together, Renan describes a political theology of the color line. The supposed “truths” about Oriental decadence became distributed among the objects of its study (“Orientals”) within...

... difficult (sometimes painful) racial humor? Is there something about being “of a darker hue” and the social experience in the world accompanying that bodily existence that compels an increasing number of writers of color to dance in the fields of experiment, play, irony, and other boundary-pushing modes...

..., including skin color, language, religion, ethnicity, and systemic power. “Medieval race” erroneously presumes that there is only one form of race in the Middle Ages, which can be compared to a similarly fictitious singular “modern race.” This inattention to mobility creates misapprehensions about how race...

... history, this young woman created her own searing vortex of shiny objects. None of them was particularly useful or conceptually creative. But she could tell you where and how heat and fire did their work. Fire transformed the color of glass, fused the many parts into a non-a-priori one, entwined crystals...

..., it is clearly more than that. In chapter 9, Du Bois poses the question of the color line in terms of ‘‘the contact of European civilization with the world’s undeveloped peoples 1 He characterizes the history of such contact as ‘‘not a pleasant chapter in human action His tacit endorsement of the ‘‘nobler...

... the paintings so enigmatic, and it is also the major difference between the organization of spatial relations in his paintings and those of his contemporaries who also experimented with the flat picture plane, most especially Matisse. I have also long pondered the ways in which Bonnard used color as a kind...

... the extraordinarily perceptive writer that she is, Wicomb also allows Frieda to flay the ways in which issues of gender were regulated in the antiapartheid movement. So the “welcome home” greeting of the old man was indicative of how race and color were profoundly historical and social constructions...

..., in W. E. B. Du Bois, Writings (New York: Library of America, 1986), 762. 3. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn,751. 4. Adolph Reed, W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 89. Warren...

... need bring nothing but a sense of form and color and a knowledge of three dimensional space.”22 In his one sustained consideration of Cézanne, art critic Clement Greenberg tied an incisive formal analysis of the main tendencies in each stage of the artist’s work to a concise estimation...

... of being), dark mucus, uterus that expands and wastes away and sometimes rains water, some- times blood. my city’s noise is interior and gray, it expands—determined by hormones—that color these suburbs, the rooftops...

... live colorful lives. Can’t we move beyond the color difference? Pray that equality arrives for all. A riotous array of color sparked beauty ’Cause it does not discriminate one from another...

... technologies and race. In other words, I have not conducted ethnographic research that quantifies biometric failures to enroll, nor am I in a position to discuss how high-profile people of color (for example, U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice) negotiate situations where the biometric...

... realignments of the post–civil rights era. These recent shifts have enabled the reconstitu- tion of white privilege as color-blind meritocracy through the consent of new immigrant groups and model minorities, and have legitimized the retrench- ment of civil rights gains in the name of the new global...

...* . ,       Be itch, be road, be ache, be- ­       Be itch, be road, ache, have—reach. want        tween Color that in early film— dis’appears black, boot- ­ black, ­ black. blue-     swims...