...Jakob Schiller © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Jakob Schiller, “Israeli watchtower built atop Palestinian structures, American Independence Park,” Dayr al-­Hawa, District of Jerusalem. Copyright 2011. Courtesy of the artist Social...

... to professionalized and technical workers, from traitors and enemies to patriotic Americans, from war-torn, backward nations to “Economic Miracles.” 1 Other scholars have traced the ideological maneuvers required to make this happen, whether through the erasures of militarized sex work that enable the reviled camp...

...Summer Kim Lee This article considers how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to the racial performativity of Asian American asociality. What the author calls “Asian American asociality” speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem...

...: Routledge. Chinn, S. E. 2000 . Technology and the logic of American racism: A cultural history of the body as evidence . New York:Continuum. Cockburn, C., and S. Ormrod. 1993 . Gender and technology in the making . Thousand Oaks, Calif.:Sage. Coupland, Douglas. 1996 . Microserfs . New York...

...Joel Beinin Duke University Press 2003 The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse It is dimly possible to imagine that the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Joel Beinin World Trade Center and the Pentagon could have provided an occasion to begin...

... of the simultaneity of race and sexuality within and against the discursive maneuvers of canonical sociology. Attending specifically to African American sexuality, I argued, “The specific his- tory of African Americans’ constitution...

...Vicente L. Rafael This essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the Americanization, which is to say, translation of English from an imperial...

...Ricardo L. Ortíz “On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational American future...

... that discourage reductive ethnographic readings. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Not Yet Beyond the Veil Muslim Women in American Popular Literature Dohra Ahmad In his 1977 essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Dark- ness,” Chinua Achebe tells of receiving a letter from a high...

...Andy Merrifield 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 31 The Urbanization of Labor LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY For well over a decade now, practically...

... maps of the Pacific drawn by American cartogra- phers, to American postcards featuring Native American women, the bare brown bosoms of indigenous women were markers of savagery, colo- nial desire, and a justification for Western imperial rule. A foundational project of European...

... to understand as an absence of narrative regarding the war and the regime. In doing so, it calls attention not to the silence of Cambodian survivors but to Cambodian American second‐generation treatments of survivor silence. Instead of “breaking the silence,” it offers for the purposes of deep and critical...

...Adrián Pérez Melgosa This essay researches the complex role that films portraying Anglo-Latin romances have played in the construction, dissemination, and reconstruction of Latin Americanism—the set of discourses representing and theorizing Latin America from local, U.S., and European...

...Sylvester A. Johnson This essay examines Black support for US militarism from the 1890s to the First World War amid devastating forms of institutional racism. As the first African American soldiers were deployed to France to liberate Europe’s White citizens, the US government hanged thirteen Black...

...Theodor W. Adorno This lecture examines American and European understandings of the concept of culture and highlights the need for developing critical thought instead of yielding to the strength of the status quo in either setting. At the heart of the contrast between American and German culture...

...Eric Estuar Reyes The presence of Filipinos as corporeal and discursive subjects within both America and Asian America has long been contested. On one hand, the dynamic juridical status of Filipinos in America has ranged from American colonial subjects and American nationals to naturalized...

...Alex Lubin; Les W. Field; Melanie K. Yazzie; Jakob Schiller In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed...

...María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo The Central American refugee crisis has been aggravated by the Trump administration’s policies, but this administration certainly did not precipitate it. The first half of this article examines the determinant role US policy played—and continues to play...

... with the dominant habits of American intellectual life, they should not conform to the American Geist . In academic fields, the notion of contribution is visible in the positive sciences but becomes more problematic in the humanities, where contribution appears not as a palpable result but as a reflection about...