... Barack . 2004b . Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance . New York : Three Rivers . Obama Barack . 2008 . “ A More Perfect Union .” Speech delivered at the National Constitution Center , Philadelphia , March 18 . Obama Barack . 2011 . “ Address at the Martin...

... . Johannesburg: Ravan. Young, Robert C. 2001 . Postcolonialism: An historical introduction . Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell. An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj: Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South...

...Sara L. Friedman This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces...

...Figure 1 The Union des Étudiants Juifs de France’s controversial image of a “tagged” Jesus and Mary from its 2004 campaign against anti-Semitism. ...

...Éric Fassin; Judith Surkis A public scandal that followed the 2005 exhibition of Tanja Ostojić's remake of Courbet's L'origine du monde revealed the contemporary sexual politics of the European Union. This essay analyzes how what was at stake in this “obscenity” was not the sex but rather...

... that might attend to this mission, this essay considers the relationship among oratory, textuality, and gendered authority by discussing how The Covenant with Black America is strategically deployed (though its contents are scarcely discussed) during the 2006 State of the Black Union political performance...

... aligned to the United Democratic Front (and ultimately the then-banned African National Congress [ANC I suggest that the answer lies in a fundamental shift in trade union politics that reconfigured political relations in South Africa. The emer- gence of the Congress of South African Trade Unions...

... in the present system. This is perhaps what happened in the history of the Soviet Union. Michel Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice At a certain point, the struggles of the dominated were so romanticized . . . that people finally forgot...

... of sweatshops, as groups such as the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), the heirs to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, began a practice called corporate accountability or public display of uncivilized practices.4 Sweat- shop labor...

... routes. Assertions of right to control the harbors for the shipment of data must traverse the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its World Radio Conferences (WRCs). Today, the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer...

... would appear to dispossess equally all citizens of that mobility option, decide that it is nondiscriminatory? Or do we weigh into the equation the fact—proved in the legal case the Bus Riders Union brought against the Los...

... their racial privileges through spectacle, awe, and invocation of common sense was eroding, and increasingly rigid color bars were sought instead. Even though Labour Party governments in London gave the Indian sugar growers the right to organize unions, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company preferred...

... went on general strike to protest the European Union austerity measures. All this less than a week after hundreds of thousands filled Tahrir Square in Cairo to reclaim the revolution. So it’s not over, not least...

... before a white audi- ence.”3 Du Bois proposed a new, post-Reconstruction America formed through a patriarchal union of white and black men. A decade later, in the face of seemingly The author gratefully acknowledges the support and helpful comments from audience members at Northwestern...

... associations, there is a wide range of political- organizational possibilities for securing some measure of autonomy short of sov- ereign statehood: consociation, federal union, loose confederation, functional decentralization, devolution, special representation or veto rights, special lan- guage or land...

... membership in the Euro- pean Union all provoked changes in the self-presentation of Europe as well as its representation of the other. The dissension around the Iraq war brought to light a fracture within the West, enhancing a definition...

... in the middle of the eighteenth century? What relationship does this wine have to the opportunities and challenges presented to a family farmer like Rojac by Slovenia’s recent entry into the European Union? And can he, in a world awash in reasonably good wine, succeed in charging this much for a wine...

...: Beyond Television Patricia Aufderheide V uring a 1986 general strike in Brazil, the union-based Workers’ TV project suddenly found videotapes flooding in from union groups nationwide. Members had documented local strike events and hoped to see what was happening...

.... The BBC documentary obscures the use of carnival space to experiment with new battle strategies for the future, to exchange new musical sounds and dances, and to bring together the exploited goups from the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Asia. THE BURNING OF THE UNION JACK The second part...