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Unnatural Causes: Racial Taxonomies, Pandemic, and Social Contagion
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Patrice D. Douglass Abstract This essay approaches Blackness as a social contagion to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence. By placing the COVID-19 deaths of Black people who are refused hospital treatment in critical conversation with police murders during...
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The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Neel Ahuja Abstract The emerging field of animal studies builds on ethical insights from the animal rights philosophies that involve an analogy between racism and speciesism, or discrimination based on species. Analyzing recent works addressing human-animal relationships in Black studies...
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Unsavory Characters: Sino-Tibetan Language Politics in the Fiction of Tsering Döndrup
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Christopher Peacock Abstract From early works such as “Ralo” (1997) to the more recent “Black Fox Valley” (2012), the acclaimed Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup has demonstrated a consistent interest in the impact of the Chinese language on Tibetan life. This article examines the techniques...
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Introduction: Between the Universal and the Particular
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... every nation on earth. 1 Second, in the evening of May 25, a Black man named George Floyd was detained by Minneapolis police on charges of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, and during the ensuing confrontation an officer used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the ground for almost nine minutes...
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Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing a Visor with Ferocity
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... King's assassination in 1968 was the bastion of organizing labor movements for domestic workers, who were predominantly Black. As a way to bring their work under the purview of fair labor standards, the National Domestic Workers Union of America (NDWUA) was formed in the city. Although misnamed according...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... increasingly politicized, regularly using their platform to criticize President Trump and express their support for Black Lives Matter, so the team manager's tweet was probably just meant to assert American freedom by striking a jab at China. 2 Yet, because China is also a major source of revenue...
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“And This Is What He Did”
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to generate shock, revulsion, and fear leading up to the election. 4 “Miscegenation,” they warned, would be the inevitable outcome of Lincoln's agenda, as the “amalgamation” of North and South would pave the way for the racial “amalgamation” of Black and white. Seeking to discredit abolitionists, Croly...
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Xiqu 2.0: Expanded Chinese Opera in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
...-walled, black-box-style, 3.2-meter-deep sunken stage outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment ( fig. 1 ). Figure 1. The Interrupted Dream in the Z Innovation Lab, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 2018. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron. Figure 1. The Interrupted Dream in the Z Innovation Lab, Hong Kong...
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Ethnic Loyalty versus Spring Fancy: Gender and Southeast Asia in Hei Ying's Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
... is first drawn to an accompanying photograph of a clutch of palm trees. 13 The opening of “Elegy” leaves no doubt that the reader is being invited into an alluring, exotic world. The story has two subtitled sections: a brief lyrical “Prelude” is succeeded by “The Black Dream.” The prelude, given here...
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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Goldsmith (1961–)for his reading (in an event co-organized by John Cayley of the Digital Arts program at Brown) of the autopsy report of Michael Brown (“the unarmed black teenager who was shot dead by police on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri” [151]) and against conceptualist Vanessa Place's...
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Introduction: Ground and Background
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... She suffered two black eyes and was understandably rather shook up, but she appears not to have suffered any lasting injuries. 3 The surveillance footage can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dJplsUiIlqs&bpctr=1631984988 (accessed February 4, 2021). 4...
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Orientalism and Wellness in the United States
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Foucault . Edited by Huck Gutman , Luther H. Martin , and Patrick H. Hutton . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 1988 . hooks, bell. 1992 . “ The Oppositional Gaze .” In Black Looks: Race and Representation , 115 – 31 . Boston : South End . Kassabian, Anahid . “ Would...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... The Guardian and the New York Times . Although the loss of the islands was attributed to factors that included global warming and a tsunami in the final days of 2004, the reports also cited sand exports to China, Hong Kong, and Thailand as an important contributing factor. See Parry, “Black Marketeers...
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Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... University Press . Aku Wuwu 阿庫烏霧 . “ Black Bear .” In The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry , edited by Mark Bender , 187 – 88 . Amherst, NY : Cambria , 2017 . Aku Wuwu 阿庫烏霧 . Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu's Poetic Sojourn in America , translated by Wen Peihong and Mark Bender...
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Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves : Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... ]. Douban dianying 豆瓣電影 [ Douban Movies ], November 26 , 2011 . movie.douban.com/review/5186583 . Baker, Houston A., Jr. , Manthia Diawara , and Ruth H. Lindeborg , eds. Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . Borysevicz, Mathieu...
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Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-forms, as re-versions of her face in original black-and-white photographs, carry the numinous power that transforms online networks into photo-altars, which enable the viewer's spiritual encounter with the unspeakable yet unforgettable past. Continuing the discussion of digital remediations, chapter...
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Theory and Practice of the Long Novel: Mao Dun's Ziye 子夜 ( Midnight ) and Representational Problems between Fiction, Locality, and Modernity
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... windows gleaming like the eyes of devils, seemed to be rushing down on him like an avalanche at one moment and vanishing at the next. The smooth road stretched before him, and street-lamps flashed past on either side, springing up and vanishing in endless succession. A snake-like stream of black monsters...
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Spatiotemporal Explorations: Narrating Social Inequalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
... by Dirlik and Zhang. See Cigarini and Chen, “Writing about (and with) a Black Box.” 39 See Chen, “Lijiang de yu'ermen,” 123 . 40 See Conn, “Wherever You Go.” Like “Beijing zhedie,” Chen's story presents time as something that is controlled by a higher power. Wandering around without...
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Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... is being perceived and narrated in heightened chemical terminology, not only in terms of black carbon and carbon dioxide but also in terms of particulate matter such as PM 2.5 , gases such as sulfur dioxide, and other chemical compounds such as hydroxymethanesulfonate, which is a significant contributor...
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Can a Revolutionary Be Happy?: The Debate on Happiness in 1960s China
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... are kuxingzhuyi 苦行主義 and jinyuzhuyi 禁欲主義. The first focuses on experiencing misery and hardship, and the second on curtailing desire. 46 Gao, “Qingnian yinggai you shenme yang de xingfuguan?,” 20. 47 Isaiah Berlin, “The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will,” quoted in Gray, Black Mass , 16...
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