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“Can you be Black and Look at This?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s)

Elizabeth Alexander
Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 77–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-77
Published: 01 January 1994
...Elizabeth Alexander Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 “Can you be BLACK and Look at This Reading the Rodney King Video(s...
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Space and Political Pedagogy at the Gardens of Versailles

Chandra Mukerji
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 509–534.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630663
Published: 01 September 2012
... and audacity of this Olympian fantasy world helped draw nobles into the new “figured world” of French empire, but equating France with Rome also legitimated state activism, allowing the balance of power in France to tip away from the nobility and toward the king and state. Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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Trust Land

Keller Easterling
Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10575831
Published: 01 May 2023
.../pan-africanism/pan-african-performance-and-possibility-in-north-africa-lessons-from-algiers-1969 . Branch Taylor . 1998 . Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 . New York : Simon &amp; Schuster . Chalfen Michael . 1995 . “ ‘The Way Out May Lead In’: The Albany...
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Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere

Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 3–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-3
Published: 01 January 1994
...Houston A. Baker, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Literature Cited Abrams , M. H. 1962. A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Albert , Peter J. , and Ronald Hoffman, eds. 1993. We Shall Overcome Martin Luther King...
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Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976–1992

Rosalind C. Morris
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 341–370.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-341
Published: 01 May 1998
.... Locally, the environment is saturated with mass-reproduced images, whether they be photographs of Thai kings, advertising billboards for Japanese automo- biles and American movies, or televised scenes of transnational bourgeois domes- ticity. Thailand has well-established and highly developed film...
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The Vulgarity of Power

Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 75–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-75
Published: 01 January 1992
...: Monthly Review. MICtt€L-ROLVH TROULLDT Soon after he usurped the crown, King Ubu assembled the crowd in the palace yard, threw money at his happily crawling and jumping subjects, and invited them to an orgy. “Here I am, he mused, king of this land...
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Millennial Transitions

Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, Jeffrey A. Zimmermann
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 344–350.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-344
Published: 01 May 2000
...Irene Stengs; Hylton White; Caitrin Lynch; Jeffrey A. Zimmermann 2000 Irene Stengs is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, working on a dissertation entitled “Worshipping the Great Modernizer: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class...
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Mango Mao: Infections of the Sacred

Michael Dutton
Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 161–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-2-161
Published: 01 May 2004
... -63. Buck-Morss, Susan. 1991 . The dialectics of seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades project . Cambridge: MIT Press. Chao Feng. 1993 . Cultural Revolution dictionary (in Chinese). Hong Kong: Ganglong. Conley, Tom. 1988 . Foreword to Portrait of a king , by Louis Marin. Minneapolis...
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Buying into the Dream: The Religion of Racial Capitalism in Coca-Cola’s World

Lucia Hulsether
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 483–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912151
Published: 01 September 2018
.... This exhibit—entitled “Rolls Down like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement”—unfolds as a tunneling chain of rooms that move visitors from Jim Crow laws, to organized resistance to them in the 1960s, to the death of Martin Luther King in 1968. The exhibit about the civil rights movement ends here...
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Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary

David Palumbo-Liu
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-365
Published: 01 May 1994
... Les mots et les choses. Paris: Gallimard, 1966. Goldman , Peter . 1973. The Death and Life of Malcolm X. New York: Harper and Row. Gooding-Williams , Robert , ed. 1993. Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising. New York and London: Routledge. Lawrence , Errol . 1982...
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The Politics of Revolutionary Celebrity in the Contemporary Arab World

Marwan M. Kraidy
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 161–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798391
Published: 01 January 2015
... . “ Charisma and Celebrity in Indonesian Politics .” Anthropological Theory 7 , no. 1 : 177 – 200 . Kantorowicz Ernst H. 1997 [1957] . The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Kraidy Marwan M. 2006...
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Juki—That's Not My Name

Caitrin Lynch, Seamus Walsh
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 313–317.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-313
Published: 01 May 1998
... workers and, hence, Juki girls. The twelfth-century king, Parakramabahu, who today is revered by Sinhalas for uniting the island against invaders and for protecting Buddhism, built a king- dom around an elaborate irrigation system...
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A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics

Michael C. Dawson
Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 195–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-195
Published: 01 January 1994
...: Vintage Books. Dawson , Michael C. “Desperation and Hope: Du Bois, King, and American Citizenship.” Unpublished manuscript. Dawson , Michael C. “Some Preliminary Thoughts on Poverty, Space, and Political Beliefs.” Unpublished manuscript. Dawson , Michael C. 1993. “Demonization...
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No Sweat

Vijay Prashad
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 193–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-193
Published: 01 January 1997
... about her concern for the liberty of children (including, for her, the life of what Operation Rescue calls the “unborn “you can say I’m ugly, you can say I’m not talented, but when you say I don’t care about children, how dare you!” (May 1). Further, she told Larry King (May 3...
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Democracy without Freedom

Erica Robles-Anderson, Arjun Appadurai
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435384
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Only two months later, Americans were once again riveted to their televisions by a display of state violence. This time it was not distant traces of military power, but police brutality in gory, intimate detail. Rodney King was arrested and beaten by five Los Angeles police officers and the incident...
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Bhakt Prahlad: Note by Faisal Devji

Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9396703
Published: 01 May 2021
... of Hiranyakashipu, a demon king who could not be killed by day or night, indoors or out; neither by man nor beast nor by any creature born of woman. Steadfast in his devotion to Vishnu despite his father's persecution, Prahlad prayed for a deliverance that was vouchsafed him as the sun set and the king stood by one...
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A Proliferation of Pigs: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia

Nancy Florida
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 497–530.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-009
Published: 01 September 2008
... of Reformasi (Reformation) Indonesia that fol- lowed, the three canvases present the artist’s self-conscious meditations on power and corruption, spirit possession, and the revolutionary potential of the people (the rakyat). The first painting, The Boar King’s Breasts (Susu raja celeng), was I am...
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Other than “The City”

Keller Easterling
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 329–332.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937227
Published: 01 September 2022
..., Saidiya Hartman ( 2019 ), Katherine McKittrick ( 2021 ), Tiffany Lethabo King ( 2019 ), and Denise Ferreira da Silva ( 2007 ) lead away to so many others who contemplate another language and way of thinking that has been eclipsed. They join still more scholars of every discipline in the humanities...
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Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War

Susan Slyomovics
Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 93–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-93
Published: 01 May 1992
..., with a terrified Saudi king mounted on his back and whipping on dogs of war whose faces are those of the coalition leaders (Haroun, El-Manchar, no. 7, 12 February 1991, cover); and the Saudi king’s face sporting an eyepatch that is a reference to Moshe Dayan, topped by an Arab head-cloth which serves...
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Epic and State: Contesting Interpretations of the Ramayana

Paula Richman
Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 631–654.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-3-631
Published: 01 September 1995
... of Prince Rama’s birth and childhood in Ayodhya, his exile to the forest, the abduction of his wife Sita by King Ravana of Lanka, and the battle to regain his wife and kingdom. Differing religious claims about the site in Ayodhya have led to violent clashes over the years. Conflict...
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