...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay explores the road and the chain as material and ideological forms of logistical and infrastructural power. Focusing on threechain gang narratives, John L. Spivak's Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang (1932), Elliot Burns's I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain (1932...

... start from the slave ship rather than the railroad, for example, or place the electrical grid alongside the chain gang. 17 One outcome of this approach is an expansion of what it might mean to conjugate reading and infrastructure: reading as infrastructure, reading infrastructure, and readings...

...,” 8 . 26. Sarah Haley's research on Black women and chain gangs in Jim Crow – era Georgia examines how the gender logics of slavery for Black women were extended to the postbellum period in the commodification of Black women's labor and in the carceral regime. See Haley, “Like I Was a Man...

.... London: Verso. Byrd, Jodi A. 2011. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. Min- neapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Childs, Dennis. 2015. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang...

...Ellen Moodie This essay develops the concept of biospectacle, in which the politics of managing populations becomes sensational visual display. It does so as it explores a series of events in 1999 surrounding the arrest and trial of “El Directo,” a gang member in El Salvador who, at age seventeen...

... American enemy, directly creating the gang violence in the Northern Triangle. This article considers if the cost of security for the US citizenship is borne by the insecurity of Central American citizenship. The second half of the article examines fictionalized accounts drawn from the testimonies of women...

.... 34 Woods ∙ “Beat It like a Cop” But none of this can be spoken. Indeed, it is nigh unrepresent- able, although such relations are clearly well documented historically, albeit mostly in literature rather than in history or the social sciences. Toni Morrison’s famous chain-­gang...

... as gang members (men) or as sassy and virginal (women), hardly any Puerto Rican cultural critic or screen actor can refrain from stating their very special relationship to West Side Story. Jennifer López, the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood today...

... and metonymic displacement, a chain of things proximate to one another, which brought the vapor to cling to the skin of visitors to the exhibit and to bead on the surface of their bodies. The 2008 work by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, titled Sudor y Miedo ( Sweat and Fear ; figs. 1 – 2 ), was quite...

... lines of flight become absolute dead ends? © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 On Liberation Crack, Christianity, and Captivity in Postwar Guatemala City Kevin Lewis O’Neill The enemy held my will and of it he made a chain and bound me.  — Augustine, Confessions He...

... similar and dissimilar to the historical agency described in the Communist Manifesto. Like the traditional working classes, it has radical chains in the sense of having little vested interest in the reproduction of private property...

... each other down long rows of cotton plants. Previously, slaves might work in groups or gangs on other kinds of crops like rice or indigo or even the back-breaking work of sugar cane, dividing the hard labor amongst themselves in service of the demands of an overseer and a slave owner. Now all...

... a gang of toughs.4 The ad stages a typical scene in Mumbai and other cities in India of the confrontation between the majority, who dwell and make their liveli- hood on the street, and the minority, who view the streets...

...- cation and restructured regional demographics, increased class tensions dovetailed with racial antagonisms symptomatized by 1970s desegregation busing struggles. Efforts to decrease gang activity, including the FBI use of informants following the Boston...

... of the are a final Cold War bipolar system; the proliferation of fundamentalist religious and political groups; the militarization of gangs, drug cartels, militia, corrupt desperate refuge. political regimes, and law...

... these stories, which are edited, as true depictions of women’s lives.20 Women are encouraged to send in their stories to share personal social and moral dilemmas with the larger reading audience. The stories dis- cussed below are taken from this section. In “Chains” [“Zanjeer the protagonist, a woman...

... a series of sponsored test-drives; Bally’s Total Fitness offers self-defense classes; Chili’s restaurant chain stages an annual 10K run; Danskin holds a women-only triathlon series; Golf for Women magazine sponsors Rally...

... house” while they and their family members are drained of money. Usually, victims are physically unharmed and released within twenty-four hours. The mainstream media speculated that “youth gangs” from Mexico City’s impoverished peripheral areas were responsible for these crimes. In fact, studies...

... . Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Childs Dennis . Slaves of the States: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . Colley Linda . Britons...

... 77 Zeenat and her activist friends plan a human chain, stretching from the Gateway of India to the northernmost suburbs of the city, all for “national integration” (537). At risk is bodily harm in the district strongholds...