...Zahid R. Chaudhary This article analyzes the discourse concerning the assimilation of Muslim minorities in the United States and suggests that calls for assimilation are solicitations for a form of self-renunciation and sacrifice. Yet such solicitations occur against the economic and political...

... for and of sociality, as assimilated yet socially isolated, unrelatable subjects. Asian American asociality is not a refusal of the social, the relational, and the minoritarian world-making possibilities they hold. Instead, it is a means of inhabiting and navigating the social and relational differently to critique...

... into a national language that required the reorganization of the nation's linguistic diversity into a hierarchy of languages resulting in the emergence of a monolingual hegemony. However, this American notion of translation as monolingual assimilation was always contested, and we can see its limits in the context...

... trace the way in which Schwartz's “sono-montage” in Nueva York splices the sonic color-line, translating mainstream representations of the so-called homogenous noise of Puerto Rican life into textured, meaningful sound to assimilated (white) Americans. Nueva York is symptomatic of the ways in which...

... denial, eradication, or rapid forced assimilation, as could well have been the case. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 The Animal Other China’s Barbarians and Their Renaming in the Twentieth Century Magnus Fiskesjö In memory of the great Chinese ethnologist Ruey Yih-fu (1899 – 1991...

... of transnational ethnic, religious, and cultural diasporas, together with global information, production, and consumption networks, make a mockery of claims of national dis- tinction and sovereignty. Some caution that while once immigrants assimilated...

... Vale and Juno, Industrial Culture Handbook , 9–17 ; Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again , 124–38 ; Reed, Assimilate , 34–38 ; and Hegarty, Noise/Music , 106 . 2 As S. Alexander Reed writes in Assimilate , “Industrial music’s community at large became proportionately more heterosexual...

..., as told though some spectacular stories of success, there is nothing singular or unique about the ways in which the state attempts to assimilate them into the nation’s capitalist “melting pot.” Le’s incredible reveal, in its metaphorical turn and literal implications, is fascinating not only because...

... in this context are the scaffolding of a neoliberal multicultural governance used to control sociality and create an appearance of normalization. The idea of uniformity, and even assimilability, while generative, is premised on dismissing racialization and white supremacy as an active process in such encounters...

... (social housing units that have replaced the bidonvilles in the margins of big cities) from la Cité, the democratic space of the French polis.8 For today’s “decolonial” militants, the haunting image of Algerian bodies floating down the Seine gives the lie to the colonial myth of assimilation...

... good” as the motor and measure of a polity’s well-being and vitality. Huxley’s diagnosis of the rise of the social, while fleeting, bears a resemblance to another midcentury thinker’s appraisal, though she would afford the social and its insatiable assimilation of politics a central place in her...

... of subaltern culture—particu- larly African American—in diverse forms, including minstrelsy, as part of by her whiteness) an effort to address the complex process of cultural assimilation.19 While blackface was only...

... to normative power may in their daily lives know very little about either structural or personal violence. The long history and magnified present of gay assimilation illus- trates these varying degrees of possibility and power...

... Muslims today. A carefully constructed terror narrative looks for names, accents, and assimilation as an indicator of whether the “wogs” are here to roll an honest burrito or blow up the world trade center. African-Americans complicate the picture because the deportation solution collapses. Parallels...

... as the image of an American frontier hero and urban vigilante, it also rewrites that legacy in order to endorse the assimilation of “good” Asians and the punishment of “bad” ones. While the term gook can signify an unadulterated hatred...

... supporting a policy of “assimilation” and rejecting calls for the island’s Social Text 103 • Vol. 28, No. 2 • Summer 2010 DOI 10.1215/01642472-2009-070  © 2010 Duke University Press 11 5 independence from France. He had...

... subjected to professional standards may be left unmeasured or unjudged, many are left behind. The disjunction between the assimilation of a gen- eral ethos and mass expulsion from the winner’s circle must itself be man- aged. This vast domain...

... peoples’ land was to use education, including Native boarding schools, for pacification and assimilation. The Native students often resisted, and in response the colonists developed more effective educational techniques. This was seen with Richard Henry Pratt's Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which had...

..., or troubles assimilation.2 Benderson’s literary works in English include Pretending to Say No (1991), User (1994), and Pacific Agony (2009), and the memoir The Roma- nian (2006). He has also published critical essays on dissident artists...

... This is because, as its etymology suggests, the city is the space in which citizenship is realized. Although French colonial urban milieus tended to include a signifi cant assimilated and often mixed-race population, the city nonethe- less...