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...Tana Hargest Duke University Press 2002 Bitter Nigger Inc. Bitter Nigger Inc.: Because Bitter Is Better, Baby! Tana Hargest BITTER NIGGER BROADCAST NETWORK BITTER NIGGER PRODUCT DIVISION BITTER...

... to say that her mother was “brutally beaten an’ Harris was bitter all her life” before Posey interrupted her: “We admitted that slavery was a most unfortunate thing—but that all masters were not cruel. Old slaves still tell of their love for ‘ole Miss...

.... At the far side of the river Hudson By the southern tip of our island A mountain soars, a torrent of sentences Syllables of flame stitch the rubble An eye, a lip, a cut hand blooms Sweet and bitter smoke stains the sky. (New York City, September 13–18, 2001) Social Text 72, Vol. 20, No. 3...

... Paz (Uni- versity of South Carolina Press). His latest book, Bitter Daiquiris: Cuban Cocktails, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in 2004. ...

... in black baseball history. His lack of bitterness made him the symbol of the Negro Leagues for countless Americans and assuaged the guilt of many about the national pastime’s Jim Crow past. Outrage at the “snubbing” of Buck O’Neil along with the more muted reaction to Afro-Latino Orestes...

... of the dignity of the human, and she makes a willful choice of death as a protest against politi- cal violence — as a strategy to defend her own humanity. In the same year, 1979, the film script “Bitter Love” Ku lian), also known as “The Sun and the Human” Tiang yu ren),11 managed...

...-baiting lawyer who indefatigably hounded so many people like her, but she fi nally says kaddish for him when he dies psychologists of AIDS in a hospital bed. In 1993–94, Kushner can imagine such a reconciliation, but only after a victim’s bitter grief and pain have been show, they react...

... saw cacao, freshly harvested. I peeled the kernel, which looks like a large, misshapen bean, and was disappointed by the bitter taste, for what is inside looks like chocolate. —Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (I Don’t...

... in zoology. Now at my Instituto I had to choose between going for a degree in science or the humanities. All my science teachers were teeth-clenching bitter gusanos, very right-wing, and my humanities teachers happened to be revoluciona...

.... The claymation ad featured a spoiled actor, voiced by Danny DeVito, and his striking colleagues locked in bitter struggle with an advertiser.30 A major element of the advertisers’ strategy was the threat to move...

...-day misery, our inveterate revolutions, our tragic bitterness, are the bitter fruits of our unthinking imitation,” said Antonio Caso in 1923.9 Regarding the local and the peripheral, it could be said that hysteria in Mexico does no more than repeat the fundamental polemic of national...

... was that much bitterness has accu- mulated somewhere inside me.” The concluding sentence of the letter reverts to this theme: “That is why, if you people go too far [barabari koro] with your insistence on the lessons of history, then I too shall...

... conditions from below, against the grain, often prompted by affects of hatred, rage, resentment, and bitterness. Often it may be dismissed from the hegemonic status as the irrational, those expressing the critique as bitter and over the top, as mad not just in an emotional sense but irrational. Where fury...

... and power in colonial India . London: Harvard University Press. Hadawi, Sami. 1967 . Bitter harvest:Palestine between 1914-1967 . New York: New World. Hourani, Albert. 1992 . A history of the Arab people . New York: Warner. Jewish-Arab Committee for the Abolishment of the Military Government...

... this experience of autocannibalism: queer minstrelsy made by queers them- selves. On his 7- inch EP Cruising + Gross Bodily Odour, Vivian pushes his own assertive/affirmative/legible queerness so far that it reveals itself to be a deeply bitter, self-­critical...

... president’s malapropisms. Seconds later, we became grimly straitlaced. Gone were satire, the mainstay of left and lib- eral criticism, and irony, commonplace of the postmodern condition: even sarcasm, bitter pill of the postpunk generation. In their place were trauma, intensified and perpetuated...

... artificial ones (addictions); health is defined against pathology; freedom is the opposite of determination or submission. The bitter irony of such binaries is that what is good and healthful can just as easily become a menace...

... direct attacks by youths against the police and banks, although these seemed minor disruptions compared to those of the previous days (there were carnivalesque assaults on some forty police stations in Athens and elsewhere by students armed with stones, bitter oranges, and empty bottles...

... that locks both the colonizer (secretly wanting what is projected onto the darker enslaved bodies: lust, emotional freedom, less “civilizing” constraints, etc.) and the colonized (striving for political and economic freedom while being injected with markers of cultural inferior- ity) into a bitter...

... But Naipaul’s bitter critique of India in An Area of Darkness and A Wounded Civilization, I would argue, hides his veiled anger at himself for the fact that the cultural tradition that planted in him the seed of his passion for writing has allowed itself to be violated so brutally through generations...