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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 551–572.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Steve Spence Throughout the 1960s, global flows of both people and media images helped transform the imaginative possibilities open to the US civil rights movement’s leaders, its thousands of foot soldiers, and its opposition. A thickening network of social and economic linkages enabled...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Michael Ralph If not quite in these words, some scholars and activists who have promoted a social movement based on the civil rights movement have implied that their project is undermined by “a whole lot of bitches jumpin' ship,” while few bother to question whether and to what extent that movement...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Keller Easterling Abstract In the wake of civil rights struggles, a rural area in Southwest Georgia became a global stage for rehearsing some of the world's most provocative experiments with community and land tenure. An interracial intentional community, a Nation of Islam farm, the first community...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Lucia Hulsether When the Coca-Cola Company bankrolled a new National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR), it was reviving a century-long reformation: the project to produce cosmopolitan consumer citizenship as normative humanity and to incarnate global markets as beloved community. This essay...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 23–62.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and civil society. A key claim is that a critical difference between this era and the Jim Crow era is the adoption of neoliberal ideology and support for neoliberal policies by a wide and diverse segment of black elites. 2016 black politics capitalism Obama postracial civil rights...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 63–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the way the president represents the fulfillment of civil rights struggles. Not merely a symbol, however, Obama also guides public opinion in these instances. At events such as the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. monument on the National Mall, the president reminded audiences that the historic...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., Inc., the Reverend Jesse Brown attempted to highlight the economic racism of cigarette marketing through a civil rights claim. The Brown complaint stated that “[the] Defendants have for many years targeted African Americans...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 1994
...,” he continued, gesturing to the group from Jackson Heights, “we already experienced. We have to become a political force, not a social one.” For John Bell, as for many African Americans in Corona, the post-civil rights period represents...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 3–33.
Published: 01 January 1994
... Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Robbins , Bruce . 1993 . “Introduction.” In The Phantom Public Sphere , vii -xxvi. Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 459–484.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . America—on the road to mass transit. Transportation Law Journal 19 : 357 -69. Dempsey, Paul Stephen. 1991 . The civil rights of the handicapped in transportation: The Americans with Disabilities Act and related legislation. Transportation Law Journal 19 : 309 -34. Dworkin, Ronald. 1981...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 137–147.
Published: 01 May 2021
... . 2020 . “ Joint Civil Society Statement: States Use of Digital Surveillance Technologies to Fight Pandemic Must Respect Human Rights .” April 2 . www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3020812020ENGLISH.pdf . Appadurai Arjun , and Alexander Neta . 2020 . Failure . New York : Polity...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 127–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
... nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) propounding neoliberal arrangements of economic and social opportunities that protect and enshrine property rights and negate economic and social rights, all the while presenting themselves as, while supplanting, local “civil society” and the state’s social welfare function...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 195–223.
Published: 01 January 1994
..., the journals, meetings and activities of the fledgling civil rights organizations, the small but active literary cycles among Black women and men, the activities and debates of Black academics and through the Black church. The blossoming...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 January 1999
...-Africanism, to anticolonialism and civil rights, are undergirded by premises of and reactions to some notion or practice of modernity. Whether in the form of the nation-state or universal ideas about human rights, black nationalism, and racial as well as other modes of col- lective identity have...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 153–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and political contracts become two sides of the same coin. In “Trust Land,” our second forum essay, Keller Easterling draws together the threads of a remarkable set of stories from the past into a potential narrative connecting two moments of activism around land and civil rights across time and geography...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 143–175.
Published: 01 January 2013
... . The authoritarian personality . New York : Norton . Andrews Kenneth . 2004 . Freedom is a constant struggle: The Mississippi civil rights movement and its legacy . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Baiocchi Gianpaolo . 2005 . Militants and citizens: The politics of participatory...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 601–623.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., with the first originating within policing and the second imposed more directly by social-movement and other public pressures in the high era of civil rights struggles. Professionalization disentangled cops from political machines, raised standards of training, increased pay, and formalized procedures. Entry...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as a form of “civil rights by copyright.” Over the years black cultural expression has appeared to become all the more visible, to the point of being granted movement status, in moments that have demanded radical protest. Most emblematically, it was the tumultuous 1960s—of protests, public assassinations...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 397–416.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and the differentiation of the state from society through which a core of individual liberties was conferred (in a paternalistic manner) on the private citizens. With the shift from royal to popu- lar sovereignty, the rights of subjects were transformed into human rights and civil rights—that is, into basic liberal...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 27–38.
Published: 01 January 2008
... steadily given way to an expanding conviction that people’s right to choose their partner in marriage is one of their fundamental civil rights. But I have also always wondered whether the justices evoked the interracial...