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... Was My Little Frenchman Rachel T. Greenwald At the University of California, Irvine, I deal with very diverse classes. The student body is generally of Asian or Latin American descent, and also increasingly non- Christian. In spite...

... 'The Poverty of Theory," the main essay in his new volume with the same title, is a sustained assault on Althusser and his British followers. Modelling his critique on Marx's dissection of an earlier Frenchman, Proudhon, in The Poverty of Philosophy, the rigorously empirical historian has...

... of presenting complex and controversial issues in clear, enjoyable, and accessible style. 4. While not immediately recognized by the vast majority of my students, Gabin’s face and the image of the smooth talking Frenchman who inhabits an exotic Arab city seems...

... the way for a whole subgenre of “ethnic porn,” a young white Frenchman traveling across Morocco is initiated into same-sex activ- ity by the locals.8 The sexual relations between white and Arab men seem to fit the model mapped out by the FHAR — the Arab men are systematically active, preferably...

... role as French citizen. Frustration on Said’s part emerges when he notes that the courage required for a Frenchman to speak out against French colonial policy in Algeria (and Indo-China) is not a direct parallel to the Israeli case because there is not a direct affiliation between the French state...

.... During the revolution in the 1790s, Rosalie was manu­mitted and met a Frenchman with whom she had, one, if not several, children. Though they never legally married, he was present at the baptism of their daughter and later improvised a document declaring that he had owned and freed Rosalie...

.... Marie Thereze Coin-Coin (1742-1816), and Micaela Antonia Almonester y Rojas Pontalba (1795-1874) left indelible marks upon the real and imaginary landscape of French-Spanish-American Louisiana. Marie Thereze Coin-Coin, born a slave, became the mis- tress of a landed Frenchman in Spanish...

... was to garner a post at a large factory with the dispossessed, sometimes as the only Frenchman among North African workers or the only man among female workers.44 In any case, the établi, “the transsocial,” often experienced the class divide in cultural terms.45...

... by Dennis Frenchman; see his “Narrative Places and the New Practice of Urban Design,” in Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions, ed. Lawrence Vale and Sam Bass Warner (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2001), 257 – 82. Barbara Kirshenblatt...

..., there is no direct evidence indicating why the Sons of Liberty would appropriate the same space that Africans had used for their annual black elections. One central criterion for the liberty tree was that it had to be old, which also meant large. An eighteenth-century Frenchman, who also revered liberty trees...

... in Dempsey’s fight with the Frenchman Carpentier by framing it as a struggle between the cultured, light-­skinned challenger and the rough, dark-­complexioned champion.18 The profitable result of that fight along with the success of the Dempsey-­Firpo bout illustrated the effectiveness of his racially...

..., with Vincent dIndy at the Schola Cantorum) in France and Italy, support- ed by his trust fund and his wife's ample alimony settlement, Porter returned to the U.S. In 1929 he scored a huge success with Fifty Million Frenchman, which contained the hit, "You Do Something to Me," as well as the coded gay...

... croissant nor [Mahatma] Gandhi’s chocolate, he wants to have Battling Siki swallow his purge even though the latter is a Frenchman.” While on a much smaller scale, Siki’s troubles were symbolic of the continued capitalist and imperialist exploitation of the world’s “indigenous proletarians.”79...

... on the traditional world of French commerce. The political and cultural environment of the late 1880s was such that Antoine felt that he needed to prove his credentials not only as an artist who was disinterested in financial gain but as a Frenchman who embodied the ethics of a virtuous patron: he took care...

... community. Some even rose to Friends’ defense when they came under attack, as did the Frenchman J. P. Brissot de Warville when he argued that “in vilifying the Quakers, you may prevent the good effects of their pious example.”67 Even the Quakers’ detractors were forced to acknowledge that “you...