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Trying Ordeal: Henry Tanner and Chris Burden in the Event of Subjectivity
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 136–154.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Patrick Anderson MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 reflections
Trying Ordeal:
Henry Tanner and Chris Burden
in the Event of Subjectivity
Patrick Anderson
All perfectly formed animals are to be divided into three parts, one that by
which food is taken...
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Sexing the Archive: Gay Porn and Subcultural Histories
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 133–141.
Published: 01 January 2022
... porn studies and queer historiographies to draw some methodological considerations about the value, benefits, and challenges posed by porn archives to the writing of queer subcultural histories. Rather than trying to solve porn’s double ontological status as both documentary and fantasy, the authors...
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Oral Histories in the Black Pacific: Women, Memory, and the Defense of the Territory
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 77–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
...-slave relations. Yet Black women’s role in shaping national history is hard to trace. Oral history projects in Bojayá and Esmeraldas are trying to change that by bridging the digital archive, by using memory and orality as shields of truth, and by using traditional methods such as song and prayer...
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Debating Data Science: A Roundtable
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 133–148.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part...
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Carlo Ginzburg: An Interview
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (35): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 1986
... or E.P. Thompson. However, even
if I was not a real political militant, I was certainly, and I am still,
conscious of the political implications, in the broader sense of the
word, of what I was trying to do. Perhaps my topics which seemed
bizarre then seem less bizarre now because politics...
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An interview with Staughton Lynd
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Radical History Review (1977) 1977 (14-15): 60–75.
Published: 01 May 1977
... for a person like myself.
If you try to infuse your objective work with your
values, to comment on it, then of course you are
"presentist." If, on the other hand, you bend over
backwards not to do that, you run a danger of losing
track of who you are, of disassociating yourself from...
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In Reply…
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 108–117.
Published: 01 May 1996
... what I knew about Lawrence, the
stories told about its history were unlikely to have happened; that
the commemorations of this history were either too innocent about
what was happening in Lawrence at the time of the commemora-
tions, or else actively mystificatory; and that in terms of trying...
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Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (68): 4–24.
Published: 01 May 1997
... changed by the civil rights movement. And, as the member
of a group called the Freedom Singers, I was dialoguing and operat-
ing in the same environment as people like Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan,
Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta. All of these people were
trying to figure out ways in which...
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The Folklorist As “Cultural Activist”: An Interview with Steve Zeitlin
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 124–136.
Published: 01 October 2002
... and preserving American traditions that have
often gone ignored.
Steve Zeitlin: In my recent days, I’ve actually thought of trying to get a group of
folklorists together to write a piece about how folklorists have changed the world,
because I really do...
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Telling Histories: A Conversation with Laurent Dubois and Greg Grandin
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 11–25.
Published: 01 January 2013
... that is neither too opaque nor too transparent. While the first option repels
readers, the second attempts “to win readers over in a style that perhaps too closely
resembles the mind-set one is trying to oppose and challenge.” They are compelled
to “use the very same language to recapture the subject...
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Abolition Infrastructures: A Conversation on Transformative Justice with Rachel Herzing and Dean Spade
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 187–203.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... And when we take the bait of having to solve for violence, then we cede a lot of terrain to that system. BA: To put it into infrastructural terms, what I hear you saying is that we’re trying to dismantle the existing system without rebuilding right on top of it. In other words, the task...
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The Give and Take of Mentoring: A Roundtable
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 45–55.
Published: 01 October 1998
..., figuring out the reading
list for exams, and, eventually, talking about a thesis or dissertation
project. When I think about it, several things go into the work on my
side of the relationship. For starters, in the give and take of developing
a project, I try to show people how to do things, like...
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Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 141–161.
Published: 01 May 1979
... of past successes,
trying to find again the somewhat mysterious combination of
elements that made a particular book hit the taste of the street.
The way in which people experience mass cultural products in a heter-
ogeneous society is erratic, subject to many forces. Harlequins...
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The Land beneath Our Feet: An Interview with Gregg Mitman
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 187–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and conduct
a complete biological and medical survey of the country at the time that Firestone
was trying to negotiate with the Liberian government for access for up to one mil-
lion acres of land to establish a rubber plantation.
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Figure 2. Member of the Harvard team...
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Revisiting a “World without Borders”: An Interview with Donald Worster
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 101–109.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... And the introduction discussed briefly the Russia dust bowl and
Khrushchev’s expansionary policies. I was trying to connect U.S. history with a more
global set of problems.
You mentioned that political ties bound people together during this moment, when
that “Whole Earth” image was connecting people...
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“My First Lessons in Chicano History Were Heard at the Kitchen Table”: An Interview with Gilbert G. Gonzalez
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 137–153.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., Smeltertown. Things that Carey McWilliams talked about — the migra-
tion and people moving from El Paso westward — all of these things appeared to me
as part of my own history. I learned that at home, and I wasn’t conscious of it until
at that point. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t trying to move...
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Politics, Progeny and French History: An Interview With Natalie Zemon Davis
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Radical History Review (1980) 1980 (24): 115–139.
Published: 01 October 1980
... for Norman Thomas,
though I can’t imagine what I knew about socialism. Also in my senior
year I was president of the student council, a perfect example of my
mixed minds. On the one hand I was delighted to be president. On the
other hand, I really did use that office to try to change things, reform...
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Luis Rosa Pérez: Life as a Puerto Rican Political Prisoner of War
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 123–128.
Published: 01 May 2023
... is definitely an element that has to be there to maintain our sanity. Solidarity is expressed in so many different ways. Some months I used to receive five hundred letters. I would try and answer them all, and my response couldn’t just be a thank you, it had to be a page long. That was so time-consuming! I...
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Mentoring Outside the Ivory Tower
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 32–38.
Published: 01 October 1998
... of mentoring? We should encourage
young scholars to think seriously about applying their knowledge and
leadership to re-creating processes of public learning. America’s public
sphere is starved and in need of engagement. Concretely, programs
exist which try to re-engage citizens in public learning...
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Growing Up Red: Children of the Left Meet and Remember
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 72–83.
Published: 01 December 1984
... to
ourselves as individuals. We are a deviant sub-culture.
The larger society has no interest in maintaining us; in
fact, it is usually trying to silence us. If we are
going to reproduce our culture, we have to create and
recreate the conditions under which we...
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