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positions (1997) 5 (3): 709–744.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Geoffrey M. White Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) Geoffrey M. White For mainstream America, World War 11 remains largely the “good war.” Hut events such as compensation for interned...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 24–76.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Miriam Silverberg Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Remembering Pearl Harbor, Forgetting Charlie Chaplin, and the Case of the DisappearingWestern Woman: A Picture Story Miriam Si lverberg As soon as he heard that the Germans had invaded...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., and assemblies in the 1900s to the policing of individuals ostensibly harboring “dangerous ideas” that were deemed threatening to state and capital—what the police came to categorize as “thought crime” by the late 1920s. Once “thought” was identified as an object for policing, Japanese police agencies began...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 389–421.
Published: 01 August 2018
... speakers of different languages. First, using imperfect or absent subtitles, Ahmad steers attention away from dialogue’s linguistic meaning, toward the purely acoustic pleasures of dueling cultural phonemes or prosody—what language simply sounds like. The soundscape harbors an aesthetic that transcends...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 687–707.
Published: 01 August 1997
...: men running as boats smoke and sink at Pearl Harbor, American soldiers in the trenches in tropical locations, and Japanese planes crashing into the sea. The sources of these images of history are many and are as likely...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
... the writings of Kevin Lynch and Walter Ben- jamin and a found photograph of Victoria Harbor flash up every ten seconds. As visitors’ eyes adjusted to these images in the darkened space, they would become aware of the scent of Chinese herbs bought from...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 41–48.
Published: 01 February 2015
... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 academic freedom Chinese nationalism H-Asia MIT incident antivictim culture American Academic Freedom and Chinese Nationalism: An H-­Asia Debate Qin Shao On a 2006 conference trip to Lithuania, I visited Klaipeda, a harbor city...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 75–85.
Published: 01 February 2005
... determined to invade Iraq, and if this proved successful, to attack other nations accused of harboring or abetting terrorists. Since the promulgation of the 2002 National Security Strategy, many mainstream foreign policy pundits have lamented...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 241–265.
Published: 01 February 2012
.... Thus “what we get” regularly exceeds Zito ‚ Reading as Watching 243 Figure 2 Video still of the author paging through Miriam Silverberg, “Remembering Pearl Harbor, Forgetting Charlie Chaplin, and the Case...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 580–608.
Published: 01 August 2007
... China. Courtesy of Cheng and Tsui actual fathers but paternalistic political regimes; indeed, Meng and Dai write “government” (zhengfu as “government-father” (zhengfu to underscore its paternal nature.34 Family harbors numerous...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 295–299.
Published: 01 May 2014
... 296 shoddiest “nation-­building projects” harbor the idealism of political false consciousness. Jie Li tenaciously muddied moral culpability and sought to complicate the way we grasp propaganda and the phantasmagoric...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): v–ix.
Published: 01 August 1997
..., and the second is keyed to considering what happens to historical memories when all immediate evidence of the injustice is interdicted. Both Geoffrey White’s patient social history of the Pearl Harbor monument and Gerald Figal’s consideration...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 769–801.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was explained as “unavoidable”—arranged for their own safety. The circumstances resonate with the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. Journalist Dilip D'Souza notes that although there is an obvious parallel to these events, the Japanese American internment is not a forgotten...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2014
... essay is a tour de force, and it is open to anyone harboring the will or desire to read. We end on another note of irreconcilable multiplicity. Jin Liu’s “Alterna- tive Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-­Language Rap Music...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2022
... time. The objective of policing politics in imperial Japan evolved from a focus on organizations and their activities to the active policing of individuals suspected of harboring “dangerous thought.” And that did not simply mean that the police went from investigating political groups to scrutinizing...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 57–67.
Published: 01 February 1994
... cannot contain, a history twisting upward in broken columns as merchant ships at last reach harbor, bringing$owers and news of you, bell of my body ringing under arches...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the film to rethink the boundedness of the city. The small town and the rural intrude into the city as labor and love continuously push at its seams. The search for labor takes the hero to a small-­town fishing harbor — a move that opens up...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 647–685.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Japanese History: 1868 to Present ,” Lecture , University of California , Los Angeles , February 12 . Maurer John H. 1994 . “Arms Control and the Washington Conference .” In The Washington Conference, 1921 – 22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road to Pearl Harbor , edited...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 561–567.
Published: 01 November 2019
... as the alternative to the dominant discourse. Here the argument is less black- and- white and not so optimistic. What steps in front of the possible is urban desire. The article also extends, as transnational migration studies do, the internal dreams that first- , second- , and third- generation dispossessed harbor...