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The Commons as Accumulation Strategy: Postgenomic Mutations in Biological Property
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Coleman Nye On June 13, 2013, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that isolated, unmodified DNA cannot be patented, in the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. —a case that has been called the Brown v. Board of Education of genetic science. In line with Cheryl...
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Sincerely Held; Or, the Pastorate 2.0
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ann Pellegrini This essay examines the role of sincerity in several recent US Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in which plaintiffs successfully sought religious exemptions from otherwise applicable state or federal laws: Hosanna-Tabor , Hobby Lobby , and Holt . Under a religious sincerity...
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Sometimes Sex Is Just a Pain in the Ass; Or, the Paradox of Sexual Politics
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Ed Cohen In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges , US citizens can now claim a right to marriage without regard to their genital anatomy. No doubt this genital indiscrimination has much to recommend it. Yet we might wonder why this achievement represents...
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Civil Rights, Commerce, and US Colonialism
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 63–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Clause differentiated “Indian tribes” from “foreign nations” and “several states.” 12 According to Vine Deloria Jr. and David E. Wilkins, Marshall sought to distinguish Indigenous nations from foreign nations because under the US Constitution foreign nations can directly appeal to the Supreme Court...
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The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
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right to bear arms against threats to family, person, and property.
“The Frontier of Freedom”: Settler Violence and Leftist Rhetoric
Despite their seeming ideological distance from Beck’s pseudohistory or
the US Supreme Court’s Heller decision, many...
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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... already made arrangements to remove to Indian territory; the Cherokee Nation, however, had sent delegates to the US Supreme Court in June 1830, six months prior to Jackson’s address, to seek an injunction against the state of Georgia to prevent the state from enforcing laws that would strip the Cherokee...
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Atmospheric Sensibilities: Noise, Annoyance, and Indefinite Urbanism
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... California’s CNEL metric), incremental parts of an hour for Los Angeles County. 40 Weiner, Religion Out Loud ; Adrian D. Horien v. City of Rockford , US Supreme Court docket no. 03-18 (2003), reply, www.robbinsrussell.com/sites/default/files/appellate_pdf/horien-v.-city-of-rockford.pdf . 39...
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Stock Histories
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., settled, and then revised by the Supreme Court. The amendment reads simply, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” In 1875, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Cruikshank that the “right...
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Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 275–284.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Nayan Shah Duke University Press 2005 Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom
In June 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling that Nayan Shah
decriminalized consensual sodomy. Lawrence and Garner...
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Gay Rights versus Queer Theory: WHAT IS LEFT OF SODOMY AFTER LAWRENCE V. TEXAS?
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 235–249.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... That price is the disciplinary regime
of political modernity. But so long as we recognize this, can we afford to
turn down “dignity” and “respect” when they are being offered to us by
the U.S. Supreme Court? After all, lacking those qualities can be posi-
tively...
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Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 19–39.
Published: 01 June 2018
... removed out of Kansas in 1867 not onto their own lands, as they understood, but onto the lands of the Cherokee Nation. They were subsequently forced by the US Supreme Court to submit to Cherokee jurisdictional authority and the Cherokee’s 1899 agreement to allotment. The criminally fraudulent...
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Alma Mater: College, Kinship, and The Pursuit of Diversity
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 37–53.
Published: 01 March 2006
... policies that he personally dis- economy.
dained: “Were this Court to have the courage to forbid the use of racial
discrimination in admissions, legacy preferences (and similar practices)
might quickly become less popular — a possibility not lost, I am certain, on
the elites (both individual...
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Why Democracy Will Be Hard to Do
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to win Senate confirmation of conservative
nominees to the federal courts.
People who followed the attack on affirmative action know that con-
servatives borrowed litigation strategies used by the civil rights movement
but may be unaware that conservatives were more attentive than liberals...
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The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., “History of USDA.” 60 Daniel, Dispossession . 61 Shoemaker, “Farm and Ranch Issues in Indian Country.” 62 Keepseagle v. Schafer (2008), eighth amended complaint, US District Court for the District of Columbia, case 1:99CV03119 (11 February 2008). 63 Quoted in Stockes...
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Uncivil Wrongs: RACE, RELIGION, HATE, AND INCEST IN QUEER POLITICS
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 251–274.
Published: 01 December 2005
... by the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas; Massachusetts’s highest court has
ruled twice in favor of same-sex marriage, not civil union, rights; and
renegade counties, towns, and cities in California, Oregon, New Mexico,
and New York...
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Late Secularism
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 123–136.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., is such a part of our cultural landscape that even the invocation of
Jesus Christ at the national prayer breakfasts that launch the new con-
gressional sessions (attended by the president, members of both chambers
of Congress, the justices of the Supreme Court, governors...
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1948: LAW, HISTORY, MEMORY
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 25–48.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., noting that when two mature parties reach
a settlement and ask the court to give it the force of a court ruling, they
are expected to understand the implications of what they are doing. Katz
appealed to the Supreme Court, but his appeal was rejected.
Following the libel case, Haifa University...
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Homo on the Range: MOBILE AND GLOBAL SEXUALITIES
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Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2002
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tion to the Supreme Court charging the Union of India, the state govern-
ment of Maharashtra, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi, and the head of the
Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray, with violating articles of the Constitution. The
petition stated...
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The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... concept. Myrdal’s belief in the paramount
importance of science in combating racism was apparently validated in
1954, when his own discussion of the scientific baselessness of beliefs in
biological racial difference was cited in the US Supreme Court...
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I was dreaming when i wrote this: A mixtape for America
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of Corrections due to prison overcrowding. California’s rate of incarceration had been increasing exponentially since the early 1970s, mirroring national trends in mass incarceration that target poor people of color in particular. In 2011 the US Supreme Court ruled that incarceration in California’s overcrowded...
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