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Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims

Ayse Parla
differences (2011) 22 (1): 64–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218247
Published: 01 May 2011
...,” the recent Turkish migrants from Bulgaria continue to deploy the language of ethnic privilege in pursuing their claims. While such particularistic claims may result in individual gains for some migrants, they tend to preclude collective forms of migrant organizing and foreclose the articulation of more...
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“Terrorists Are Human Beings”: Mapping the u.s. Army's “Human Terrain Systems” Program

Mike Hill
differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-011
Published: 01 December 2009
... that is evident in the U.S. Census 2000, concluding that demography has taken a uniquely post–civil rights turn in the unprecedented context of a coming U.S. white minority. Categorical self-identification within the permeable race and ethnic categories that the state now endorses paradoxically releases it from...
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Seductions of the “Honor Crime”

Lila Abu-Lughod
differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218238
Published: 01 May 2011
... enabled it to emerge as a robust category implicated in projects that include the policing and exclusions of immigrants; nation-states' disciplinary penetration of rural and urban subaltern communities; dominance by specific national, ethnic, or class groups; manipulation of liberal values in the service...
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Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the “Custom” In Turkey

Dicle Koğacioğlu
differences (2011) 22 (1): 172–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218283
Published: 01 May 2011
... class and ethnic groups in Turkey, tending to focus attention, rather, on an essentialized “Kurdish” or “Eastern” culture as the main dynamic behind honor crimes. Blame for the practice is attributed to the intractable customs of backward peoples, customs that are disconnected from discussions...
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Is It Lonely (T)here? Intramurals, Black (W)holes, and Black Feminism

Megan Finch
differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11259654
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Afropessimism. The essay interrogates how looking for the distortion of the academic spaces that surround and engage black thought—namely, American studies, ethnic studies, and women and gender studies—renders visible (presuming we have the right instruments) the production of black (w)holes. Finally...
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Universalisms and Minority Culture

David Palumbo-Liu
differences (1995) 7 (1): 188–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7-1-188
Published: 01 April 1995
...David Palumbo-Liu Copyright © 1995 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1995 Works Cited Balibar Etienne . “ Paradoxes of Universality .” Goldberg 41 – 49 . Boelhower William . Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis...
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The “Women” in Women's Studies

Shirley J. Yee
differences (1997) 9 (3): 46–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-9-3-46
Published: 01 November 1997
.... Jacqui and Mohanty Chandra . London : Routledge , 1997 . xiii – xlii . Anthias Floya , and Yuval-Davis Nira . “ Contextualizing Feminism—Gender, Ethnic and Class Dimensions .” Feminist Review Nov. 1983 : 62 – 74 . Anzaldúa Gloria , ed. Making Face, Making Soul...
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Towards an Ethics of Transnational Encounter, or “When” Does a “Chinese” Woman Become a “Feminist”?

SHU-MEI SHIH
differences (2002) 13 (2): 90–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-13-2-90
Published: 01 September 2002
...: Columbia UP, 1995 . Chun, Allen. “Diasporas of Mind, Or Why There Ain't No Black Atlantic in Cultural China.” Cultural Studies, Ethnicity and Race Relations Working Papers Series 14 . Pullman: Washington State U, 2000 . ———. “Fuck Chineseness: On the Ambiguities of Ethnicity as Culture as Identity...
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Model Minority Discourse and Asian American Jouis-Sense

TOMO HATTORI
differences (1999) 11 (2): 228–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-228
Published: 01 September 1999
... a central discourse in Asian American cultural criticism is dedicated to the production of Asian American ethnicity as a sublime and socially futile object. This object initiates a discourse, a model minority discourse, that animates...
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Refashioning Race: dna and the Politics of Health Care

ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING
differences (2004) 15 (3): 1–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-15-3-1
Published: 01 December 2004
... in Signs . Aldhous, Peter. “Geneticist Fears `Race-Neutral' Studies Will Fail Ethnic Groups.” Nature 418 (25 July 2002 ): 355 -56. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Research.“Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Socioeconomic Status—Research Exploring Their Effects on Child Health...
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Silences: “Hispanics,” AIDS, and Sexual Practices

Ana Maria Alonso, Maria Teresa Koreck
differences (1989) 1 (1): 101–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1-1-101
Published: 01 February 1989
... and the Dark Continent .” Radical America 21 . 2-3 ( 1987-88 ): 17 - 23 . “ Chavez Ends Fast over Pesticide Use .” New York Times 22 Aug. 1988 : A12 . Communication Technologies and Research and Decisions Corporation . Reaching Ethnic Communities in the Fight against AIDS: Summary of Major...
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Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference

Ann DuCille
differences (1994) 6 (1): 46–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-6-1-46
Published: 01 April 1994
...Ann DuCille Copyright © 1994 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994 Works Cited Berkwitz David N . “ Finally, Barbie Doll Ads Go Ethnic .” Newsweek 13 Aug . 1990 : 48 . BillyBoy . Barbie: Her Life and Times . New York : Crown...
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Ambiguous Universality

Etienne Balibar
differences (1995) 7 (1): 48–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7-1-48
Published: 01 April 1995
... of them has totally achieved complete equality, or parity, in terms of rights and duties, access to responsibilities, social prestige, etc. The other meaning is more a question of administration and statistics: it refers to the fact that religious and/or ethnic groups are living among a "majoritarian...
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Immigrant Rage: Alienhood, “Hygienic” Identities, and the Second World

Katarzyna Marciniak
differences (2006) 17 (2): 33–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2006-002
Published: 01 September 2006
... Column. mla Newsletter 35 ( 2003 ): 3 -4. Proefriedt, William. “The Education of Eva Hoffman.” The Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 ( 1990 ): 123 -34. Roberts, Dorothy E. “Who May Give Birth to Citizens?: Reproduction, Eugenics, and Immigration.” Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti...
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The Politics and Pedagogy of Asian Literatures in American Universities

Rey Chow
differences (1990) 2 (3): 29–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2-3-29
Published: 01 November 1990
..., ethnic, and gender distinctions that follow from such a notion. Since it puts Asian cultures on a par with all great civilizations of the world, this kind of specialization is often privileged over the study of texts whose production is much more obviously inscribed in the politics of postimperial (after...
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American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance

SUSAN KOSHY
differences (2001) 12 (1): 50–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-50
Published: 01 May 2001
...SUSAN KOSHY 2001 susan koshy is an interdisciplinary scholar who writes on racial formation and the construction of gendered ethnicity in diasporic communities. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, boundary2,Diaspora, Social Text , and Transition . She...
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“Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s

Caroline Chung Simpson
differences (1998) 10 (3): 47–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-10-3-47
Published: 01 November 1998
..., 1954–1963 . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1988 . Busch Noel F. “ Tokyo Geisha ” Life ( 17 Mar . 1947 ): 61 – 70 . “ Chief Counsel for Equality .” Life ( 13 Jun . 1955 ): 141 – 52 . Daniels Roger . Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity...
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Writing in the Realm of the Senses. Introduction

REY CHOW
differences (1999) 11 (2): i–ii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-i
Published: 01 September 1999
...–Culture–Ethnicity–Reading (Indiana University Press, 1998). She is also editor of Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Duke University Press,forthcoming). REY CHOW...
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Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities An Introduction

Teresa de Lauretis
differences (1991) 3 (2): iii–xviii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3-2-iii
Published: 01 July 1991
... R. Flight from Nevèrÿon . New York : Bantam , 1985 . Delany Samuel R. Neveryóna, or the Tale of Signs and Cities . New York : Bantam , 1983 . Delany Samuel R. Tales of Nevèryon . New York : Bantam , 1979 . Epstein Steven . “ Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity...
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Is Black Marriage Queer?

Kendall Thomas
differences (2018) 29 (2): 204–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-6999872
Published: 01 September 2018
... Atlantic between two warring visions of the politics of belonging: the nativist, nationalist, ethnic identity of T’Challa and the globalist, diasporic, racial identity of N’Jadaka. Narratively, the film is a domestic family drama of the struggle to the death of two brothers and those brothers’ sons. Some...
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