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“Glorifying the Jamaican Girl”: The “Ten Types One People” Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 36–58.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Rochelle Rowe The “Ten Types-One People” multiracial beauty contest was launched in 1955 in Jamaica, then a British colony on the cusp of independence. Jamaican nationalists designed “Ten Types” as a central part of the “Jamaica 300” tercentenary celebrations, the colony's first foray...
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“If You’re Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous”: Sex Worker Community Defense
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 130–153.
Published: 01 January 2024
... to be beautiful, you better be dangerous.” Maximus is a sex worker who also moonlights as a bodyguard for other sex workers. Workers in his community have taken to “freestyling” (picking up clients in hotels or bars, rather than through web advertising) more often since the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act...
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“Anarchist Beauties” in Late Meiji Japan: Media Narratives of Police Violence in the Red Flag Incident
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 30–49.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Beauties” in Late Meiji Japan
Media Narratives of Police Violence
in the Red Flag Incident
Tomoko Seto
On June 22, 1908, in Tokyo’s Kanda area, fourteen socialists were arrested for car-
rying red flags with anarchist slogans and fighting with police officers in the street
outside...
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“A Beautiful and Practical Lesson of Jurisprudence”: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 51–79.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Sarah Crabtree MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 “A Beautiful and Practical Lesson of
Jurisprudence”: The Transatlantic Quaker
Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Sarah Crabtree
Amid the revolutions and wars for empire of the late eighteenth century, the emi...
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Enclosing the Sea: Remaking Work and Leisure Spaces on the Naples Waterfront, 1870–1900
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 13–35.
Published: 01 January 2011
... supporters of sanitization saw privatization and gentrification as the only means to preserve the beauty of the waterfront, other narratives used the picturesque as a common ground between nature and work. According to those narratives, the picturesque included the traces of work and daily life; the beauty...
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Getting by in the Foreverscape
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 139–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Colin Matthes Getting by in the Foreverscape is a survey of Colin Matthes's artwork from 2010 to 2013. His work revolves around economic and environmental calamity. He finds a beauty in individuals and small groups with limited means creating their own solutions to larger problems. He engineers...
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Urban Iconographies: Gender, Hair, and Afro-Parisian Consumerism
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 131–151.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Black experience. In teasing out the links among presentism, hip-hop culture, and the European beauty industry, these explorations generate a unique brand of performed consumerism that forges a dialogue between Black female cosmopolitanism and historicity. [email protected] Copyright © 2022...
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“The Triumph of the Flesh”: Women, Physical Culture, and the Nude in the French Music Hall, 1904-1914
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 63–80.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
that turn-of-the-century France witnessed a linking of physical beauty and moral
goodness, as well as “gendered appeals to women’s duties toward their families and,
more seductively, to their right to take care of their bodies.”8
Historians have underestimated the cultural impact...
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The Queer Archivist as Political Dissident: Rereading the Ottoman Empire in the Works of Reşad Ekrem Koçu
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (122): 89–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
... category of male
sexual subjectivity, known as c e m a l a s¸ ı g˘ ı , “a lover of facial beauty.”20 This sexual
category was characterized by the pleasure derived from watching beautiful young
men, and it is mentioned in a number of biographies in The Encyclopedia of Istan-
bul. The article “Galib...
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Paris Commune Photos at a New York Gallery: An Interview with Linda Nochlin
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Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (32): 59–70.
Published: 01 January 1985
... object-the way forms and
shapes relate to each other, what kind of angles the artist chose,
how well they’re printed-
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60 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW
JW: -the beautiful tones we’re no longer able to get.
LN: I don’t mean...
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Bread and Carnations Maybe?
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 98–102.
Published: 01 May 1996
... League, another product of
1920, but formed in Lawrence, Massachusetts, by youthful veterans
of the previous year’s successful 107-day strike for 48 hours work
for 54 hours pay: ”Beauty through socialism.”2
Whatever their weaknesses on other scores, historians influenced
by E. P. Thompson...
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Detroit Is Closer than You Think
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (129): 164–176.
Published: 01 October 2017
... in the city's past and present. Rebecca J. Kinney is assistant professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her first book, Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier (2016), analyzes the centrality of race making...
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Enjoying 9/11: The Pleasures of Cloverfield
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (111): 167–174.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of mushroom clouds. And yet, in 2010,
while a Web site as conventional as Life.com points out the “terrible beauty” of
atomic explosions,2 there is no real place in Western culture for an open discussion
of 9/11’s dark aesthetic appeal.
This taboo is all the more notable in the United States...
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We Make the Road by Riding ( Se Hace el Camino al Viajar ): Stories from a Journal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride—Portland to New York, September 23 to October 4, 2003
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2005
... Soul Power, I came to understand
the importance of every story that we told each other, and of the beauty of every life
revealed in the stories. I learned that these beautiful strands of life could be, and
were, woven into something far greater than the sum...
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Can Capitalism Save the Planet?: On the Origins of Green Liberalism
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 7–24.
Published: 01 May 2010
... published Small Is Beautiful: A Study of
Economics as if People Mattered, a book that reflected his skepticism about the
basic principles of economics. The book reads more like a political manifesto than an
economics textbook. The study challenged the growth imperative in a world of finite
resources...
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Letters to the Editors
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 247–249.
Published: 01 October 1994
... have a notion that she has done the same thing. That
is the beauty of the study of history: it allows us to choose role models
but forces us to face-and perhaps avoid-their shortcomings at the
same time, to avoid thinking in terms of good guys and bad guys.
Preacher Casey tells Tom Joad...
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Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 137–165.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., ”The Girl Who Used to Be a Boy Isn’t Quite Ready for
Dates,” Christine was ”a former GI who became a beautiful blonde
with silken hair,” a tendentious statement that allowed the reporter
to endow the present Christine with erotic qualities ( “silken hair”)
that she never could have possessed...
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Vandalism: Property, Gentility, and the Rhetoric of Crime in New York City 1890–1920
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Radical History Review (1982) 1982 (26): 13–34.
Published: 01 October 1982
... to be damned")
with vandalism for its decision to pull down one of London's most
beautiful gardens, also to make room for a building.' Such occasional
references continued into the twentieth century, appearing when the
London City Council began hacking down trees on Hampstead Heath
to allow the sun...
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“I Look Nature”: Japanese Canadian Rock Gardens and the Memorialization of British Columbia’s Carceral Landscapes
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Radical History Review (2025) 2025 (152): 178–194.
Published: 01 May 2025
... that, to me it was absolutely beautiful . . . the stone build that he’s got up there reminded me of a person walking with a hat on.” In his interviews, Art is frequently seated in front of the sculpture that looks like “a person walking with a hat on,” as though to underscore the resemblance. Recognizing...
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Catch My Drift?: Situationist Dérive and Urban Pedagogy
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 175–190.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of trash, works inspired by the Situationist practice of détournement. These
projects appropriate the banal refuse of everyday life and convert it into beautiful
traces of a path — and the paths of others — through the city. In the spirit of The
Naked City, these collages represent a recovered...
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