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... exploitative colonial economy. Jamaica Kincaid’s essays in A Small Place dramatize the competing narratives of vacation as happiness object and misery-causing activities within the framework of the structure of terror. Many critics read differences of race and class developed through figures of the tourist...

...Gina Athena Ulysse Abstract This small collection of Haitian women's reflections on the earthquake offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of how several women at home and in the diaspora lived through this moment, their responses and the continuous impact on our lives. The works are composed...

...Ina C. Seethaler Abstract Jane Jeong Trenka's adoption memoir received harsh criticism for its negative stance against transnational adoption. Within a small yet growing group of life-writing works on transnational adoption, I see Trenka as an important voice in challenging the dominant cultural...

... through the collective’s presence at marches, demonstrations, and on social media. While core membership is small, La Cole has been able to convene collaborators and supporters to organize against the imposition of neoliberal economic and public policies that negatively impact the most dispossessed...

...Nikky Finney Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 NIKKY FINNEY Inquisitor and Insurgent BlackWomanwithPencilS, harpened I was a small town girl with a big love for writing sticks. My birthday fell at the end of August, the last week of summer, the first week of the new school year. My early...

... grade, the color of toasted salami, with a pleasing pattern of small stars stamped all over them, slightly raised to massage the fingers mid-dribble. The skin is thick enough to make a satisfying “Tang!” on the ground when kicked or flung. A good grade in physical education was key to a commendable...

... first marie would shred the classroom to ribbons the teacher stayed in there w/her, asking her again + again to count slowly to ten we’d peek one at time through the square of glass in the door lined like graph paper, dividing marie + the teacher into pieces small enough to hold the teacher held...

... to demonstrate your commitment to uphold the same values. Given the understanding that the classroom is a space oflearning that invites participants to make and to recover from mistakes, consider introducing an "oops/ouch" conversational procedure as outlined in Appendix C. 2. In small groups, invite students...

... are walking to the pueblo I will tell you that it can take two days to complete three yards of wall, and then I will show you what three yards is, and you will marvel at how many years it took to create this small stretch of your namesake. The process of building is as slow as it is deliberate. One day I...

...Glenis Redmond Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 GLENIS REDMOND Benediction We took back roads cutting cross country traveling from one small road to another snaking from Moonville to Mauldin. my big brother Willie and I rode while the blue Duster began stuttering a dubious rattle...

... to live in a small room with a narrow bed and a television at my feet, a mirror hung on the back of the door. I lived in the order of its smallness. I lie here next to you and feel the distance from the walls. IfI held you closer we would fit onto a narrow bed. NOTE "Hunger" and "I Used to Live...

... that are removed from this fungal entanglement often die. ○ ○ ○ After a week of nightmares eight months ago, I decided to make my first ancestral altar in my childhood home. I smoothed a white cloth over a small wooden shelf in the corner of my bedroom. Trusting the lessons my body held, I let it tell...

...Mirta Yañez; Sonia Feigenbaum Objects Objects succumb defenseless to the disguise of time. Let us take, for example, this stone, this small and bare stone that I found in a drawer. Where did it come from? How long has it been here? How did it get here? Who brought it? Why have I kept it? Each...

...: how to document rights violations, and how to organize hearings in key areas, especially rural areas and small cities. The hearings then brought together social workers, other professionals and advocates, and the people with whom they were working as "clients" to bear witness to economic human rights...

... he had been in the womb. Now, his mouth had yet to learn how to make words, but surely he would acquire his mother tongue in time. Kate raced toward immigration. She would have to get through quickly, or miss the connecting flight to her final destination. She traced small circles on the child's back...

..." I3I so little labor, it was fifty rupees at the end of the month. All three had tendered applications. They did not know how many others were competing for the positions, but it seemed the pool of applicants was small. Not many knew about these vacancies, and even among those who did, only a few had...

.... BecomingBlancheWiesen Cook Ata curbside in Manhattan in 1970a small group of fledgling women historians paused briefly to transfer luggage. We were en route to the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts where a handful of mostly retired women historians gathered informally each spring. "The Berks," as we then referred...

... and officializing of new and old borders. Political violence makes sense only if we conceive of nations as real entities and people as willing to die so that the nation may live. Small bodies are sacrificed in the name of larger bodies. The political project of war liberates one terrain and intensifies suffering...

... '70s, that I became a part of building the first Asian American community organization-there were other Japanese American or other small family associations or other kinds of ethnic organizations, cultural organizations, but the first Asian American organization-in Sacramento, and that, 166 MERIDIANS...

...? Is this numb patch death spreading on the feet I have found I like rubbed with lotion, and how did my little toes come to be curled in with no car accident, and how I flinch and move it when I realize that it’s in the dent under the car door, where it would be crushed in even a small collision (because I...