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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2013
...José Esteban Muñoz The great paradox of any punk scene is the ways in which it can simultaneously foster a sort of nihilistic individualism and an often transformational sense of commonality. This essay considers the performance of a punk rock commons that emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of air-body-matter. Drawing principally on material related to the politics of noise around Los Angeles International Airport from the 1960s to the present, this article takes up three episodes in which figurations of the atmospheric have been shaped by and cohere in and through noise. At the dawn...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
... being-with him can take place only through his writing, I have structured this essay as a staging of a conversation between his previous recordings (aka writings) and Los Angeles–based writer/director/performer Luis Alfaro’s solo performance piece St. Jude . An acclaimed Chicano writer, performer...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the structures of settler colonialism.” What would it mean for a settler speaker of a land acknowledgment to say, “I am a visitor, and I hope to become a proper guest”? Two empirical examples are presented: the University of California, Los Angeles, where an acknowledgment was crafted in 2018; and the University...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 71–87.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of digital platforms, new phenomenological modes of engagement, and new aesthetic forms. If Adorno by the pool in midcentury Los Angeles is not to be abandoned, how might he speak to us now? Copyright © Duke University Press 2016 Theodor Adorno television culture industry Where is queer...
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Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 1 Candice Lin, Birth of a Nation , 2008. Watercolor on paper, 44 × 54 in. Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles More
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 107–120.
Published: 01 June 2000
...- dream of way cool behind the wheel. The reek, the jiggle, the strange encounter of flesh to flesh on the bus so alien to Los Angeles, amnesiac about its streetcar past. On weekends when my best friend Heather (now a lawyer with the L.A. city attorney’s...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2006
... these hometown associations is that my film is just the tip of the iceberg. What’s going on with these groups in Chicago and in Los Angeles new network of is at a whole other level. In the L.A. valley, there are over three hundred of these groups organized into federations. There is representation of so...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
... City, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, New Haven, Oakland, and Port- land, I want to home in on one particular living-wage action: that occur- ring in Los Angeles. Los Angeles provides a fascinating glimpse of how a multihued population has managed to unite around...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
... approach, the cryptic darkness of cracked backdoors, the half-rabid dogs humping up against fences, the lazy banal splendor of Los Angeles. Domesticity uncorking like the intro of a Twilight Zone episode. The 2003 strike by the mechanics’ union of the Metropolitan Trans- portation Authority (MTA...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
Published: 01 June 2015
... (Tony Sancho) and Angel (Michael Cortez).29 In the film, Angel, a former member of the Latin Kings gang, joins Isaac in the Two-­Six gang to avert disclosure of their affiliation-­based forbidden love and guarantee their intimacy. Yet while...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 21–42.
Published: 01 June 2012
... was a taxista [taxi driver] and wasn’t paying his impuestos [taxes] to the gang. This isn’t LA. It’s fuckin’ crazy out there.” Born in Guatemala but raised in Los Angeles, deported on gang charges but redeemed by his faith in Jesus Christ, this born-­again ex – gang member set his sights on a new life...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 65–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to the Los Angeles Times, the press was fi lled with threats by advertisers to take production overseas, to places like Vancouver, British Columbia; South Africa; and South Korea.17 The RSA ad was an attempt to make the threat of overseas...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2002
... experienced a wave of vio- lence, the likes of which they have never seen before. At least five people were killed: Balbir Singh Sodhi, forty-nine, a Sikh Indian in Mesa, Ari- zona; Waqar Hasan, forty-six, a Pakistani grocer in Dallas; Adel Karas, forty-eight, an Egyptian Coptic Christian in Los Angeles...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2000
... them to join gang networks. In the years following their study, Rumbaut and Ima’s “paradox” would become a popular trope in the discussion of Southeast Asian gang life, prompting the Los Angeles Times to report...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 67–85.
Published: 01 December 2006
... and which provided the inspiration for his brilliant meditation on the “angel of history”: A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... configurations of “American” cultural, political, and historical ground. That site is downtown Los Angeles, where in 2006 we saw Celia Cruz arrive in a blaze of posthumous glory when ¡Azúcar!, the Smithsonian-sponsored retrospective of her life (complete...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in the displacement of working-class and racialized people in Los Angeles. 3 Political analyses of the uses of the arts that are produced by this and other struggles for social and economic justice are of the greatest importance and urgency in the present, and they offer much-needed clarity in the face...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 125–140.
Published: 01 June 2003
... became a powerful influence on Middle East policy making, the corporate mass media were fairly clear about its political commitments. The New York Times referred to WINEP as “a group with a pro-Israeli orientation.” The Los Angeles Times...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): np.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in Los Angeles, where his work focused on legal and organizing strategies for Asian and Latina/o gar- ment workers in Los Angeles sweatshops. He has also been an active member of the South Asian Network in Artesia, California. Meena Alexander was born in India and raised in North Africa...