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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (106): 87–108.
Published: 01 January 2010
... argue that by combining the corpulent physicality of J. P. Morgan the Plutocrat, the aggressive gesture of the Rooseveltian Imperialist, and the costume of Uncle Sam, Young's Militarist mapped the emergent political economy behind American militarism. This gave a visual, allegorical, and highly...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (122): 11–24.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the minor object be enlisted to enhance a normative principle, an already known unity? Such instrumental gestures toward minor objects are the source of inclusion's coercive, diminishing effects—on the imagination as well as on practice. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (117): 83–97.
Published: 01 October 2013
... as a monad. This power, however, is fleeting as history is yet again rendered latent and forgotten once it is transformed into a gesture or everyday common sense. In this article, Stefka Hristova offers a comparative analysis of two Internet-driven participatory memes — “Pepper Spray Cop” and “Doing...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (123): 115–143.
Published: 01 October 2015
... in and resist the logics of racialized sex, empire, and global capitalism through everyday talk and bodily gestures. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 Philippines transgender outsourcing empire militarism affect HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT The Sexual Fields...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 131–141.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that surround the African presence in Mexico. Dance, with its gestured codes and musical accompaniments, persists as evidence of a distinctive diasporic presence in a country in which African people run the risk of invisibility. LATIN AMERICAN FORUM Indigenous Acts: Black and Native Performances...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 179–190.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., Lindman’s approach is informed by the tradition of performance art. For New York Times 09/02 – 09/03 she videotaped herself reenacting gestures of mourning captured in photographs published in the New York Times and then traced these gestures from video stills with pencil. By exhibiting both...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 107–120.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of empire meant that indigenousness proved central to the city’s symbolic and literal power. The city, moreover, did not just provide a backdrop or stage for social relations; space was created and recreated through a thousand gestures, whether spontaneous or ceremonial. The transformation...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 207–216.
Published: 01 May 2021
... speech, he pleaded that “private grief” be turned toward “something public,” whether the public intervention be big or small. He continued, “We have to find our own forms of gesture and communication. You can never depend on the mass media to reflect us, or our needs, or our states of mind. And bottom...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 9–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
... the binary politics of identity, calling into question the completeness of a historiographic gesture based upon stable identity categories as epistemological foundations for history. I say that Thaw is an impossible subject for lesbian/gay history. Yet initially I became interested in the Thaw...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 63–80.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... Colette’s coach and stage partner Georges Wague gained prominence at the turn of the century as the master of a modern, more physical pantomime that broke from the stylized gestures of classical Pierrots. Instead, Wague sought the realistic expression of human emotions through the body, making...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (106): 27–45.
Published: 01 January 2010
... many visual gestures, showing us how humans struggle, communicate, and dominate. Photography functions in this context to break history into fragmen- tary moments so that we might examine its trends, its ruptures, and its subtexts. In addition, we are consistently reminded of the qualities...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (121): 91–105.
Published: 01 January 2015
... sensitive to the role of linguistic and gestural exchanges in “representing, constructing, and maintaining” social and political authority.16 But this work — much of it written under the influence of James C. Scott — has been dis- proportionately preoccupied with those moments at which the deferential...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (106): 109–136.
Published: 01 January 2010
...” or “demystify” everyday forms of inequality and to highlight how political and social forces shape taken-for-granted objects and everyday interactions.23 They focused on bodies and gestures, clothing and objects that became politically mean- ingful only when embedded in the local political and social...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 159–167.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for the St. Louis Rams took the field displaying the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture associated with protests of police violence against unarmed black men, the St. Louis Police Department issued a statement condemning the players’ protest, and the team’s coach asserted, “I firmly believe that it’s...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 145–150.
Published: 01 October 1995
.... In a postmodem age where resistance is often viewed as a literary rather than a political problem, Rowbotham has continued to write about how people of all colors have sought to resist-not just as readers but as agents, employing gestures, images, and organiza- tions to counter prevailing authority...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (122): 211–231.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and embodied experience with the material-­discursive, the historical, and the archival. In 2010 I guest edited a special issue of Australian Feminist Stud- ies called “Embodiment and the Archival Imaginary” that gestured toward these interests. I fell in love with Maurice Merleau-­Ponty’s...
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 31–61.
Published: 01 October 2004
... dis- juncture between the poem’s elaboration of racial dilemmas and the speaker’s asser- tions of foundational identity that simply reject racism without working through or overcoming it. In a grand gesture of autonomous self-fashioning designed to conjure...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 158–172.
Published: 01 October 2007
... no compulsion to convert. Therefore, when Guru Hargobind settled in this spot, he felt it necessary to provide for the spiritual needs of the whole company. The building of a mosque was an especially impor- tant gesture as Guru Hargobind, his followers, and his allies (some Muslim) were increasingly...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 19–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
... landscapes you had homosexuals showing themselves and their surroundings. Why this decision to enact self-ethnography? Sure, one could argue that the gesture of showing the Other loses its greater violence when “we” represent “ourselves,” reclaiming the agency to reveal “the way we really are.” But who...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 166–177.
Published: 01 October 2000
...-dominated National Convention. The abolition of slavery in St. Domingue was ratified and expanded to all of the French colonies. In a radical gesture, slaves were granted universal and immediate emancipation, with no indemnity to the planters and no period of apprenticeship. They were mobilized...