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A la parada: THE SOCIAL PRACTICES OF MEN ON A STREET CORNER
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 55–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky Duke University Press 2006 A la parada
The Soci al Pr actices of Men on a Street Corner
At 6:30 a.m. on a Monday morning, Ronaldo is the first to arrive. He...
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Anti-immigrant Violence in Suburbia
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 73–80.
Published: 01 September 2006
... essay focuses on backlash against Latino immigrants in the
town of Farmingville on Long Island. We invited him to contribute to this
collection because of his advocate and policy perspectives and because his
analysis comes directly from the street corners where day laborers gather.
The essay...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 1–12.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., describes the
paradox of contemporary Latino/a labor migration. As long as immigrant
workers stay behind the scenes, their brawn and skills are highly appre-
ciated. However, their presence on street corners, in schools, parks, and
stores has become highly contentious for urbanites as well...
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Unfinished Business: Notes toward an Artist Statement
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 145–152.
Published: 01 June 2013
... on business-style presentation skills. Dressed in a smart business
suit and standing atop a ladder, I appear as a lone speaker surrounded by
the milling crowds of Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. We see
a radical disconnect between speaker and audience, who were perhaps
expecting the political...
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Waiting for the Bus
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 107–120.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of the corner of your eyes, leaping over fat
meridians of crosswalk to make it, in a dripping, panting, tongue-lolling,
frying-warthog-in-a-skillet hot flash, just to make it. The doors would
flop open and suck you into the juniorhighschool-back-of-the-bus...
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Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... argued about how “real” the idea was. For example, Michelle wanted youth cultural
to include a confrontation in a corner store between a black youth and an
immigrant storeowner because, she argued, “That really happened.” In practices—
the end, her scenario was incorporated into the script...
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Deep in the Blood of Time: WITNESSING TRAINS AND THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in the corporate gleam of Bunker
Hill on the corner of Hill and Seventh.
As early as the 1920s LA boasted an astonishing 1:8 ratio of cars to
people, the highest of anywhere in the nation. While cars, single-fam-
ily...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): np.
Published: 01 September 2006
...: The Social Practices of Men on a Street
Corner Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky 55
Anti-immigrant Violence in Suburbia James E. Claffey 73
New Immigrants in Rural Communities:
The Challenges of Integration Pilar A. Parra
and Max J. Pfeffer 81
La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: Articulating Labor...
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The Event of the Poem: “the gramsci monument”
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 119–121.
Published: 01 March 2014
... was sitting on a comfortable chair in the corner writing a poem. We
greeted each other and talked about how the structure, the scene of the
monument, felt good. It was not as though either of us had approached
this monument without some hesitation. We had both read the vari-
ous critiques...
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Fragments on the Failures of Bodies
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 91–93.
Published: 01 March 2018
... moving. You are on a crowded A train after a day in Philadelphia. You are having a bizarrely tense conversation with your housemate and would prefer to stare at your phone. The man next to you is moving strangely, you notice out of the corner of your eye, and you turn to see that he is silently...
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Death Drives in the City: or, On a Third-Stream Anamnesis
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., permanently fixed on the sidewalk. It stood peacefully a
few steps away from my home, right at the corner of a busy avenue close to
the center of the city. Flowers surrounded it. Its interior featured the pic-
ture of a young man and a lit candle. A name and a date, engraved on its
outside, signified...
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Sociality at the End of the World
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., curled up on a gurney in the corner, blood on his sheet. “What happened?” I asked him, “Were you shot by the cops?” Only in hindsight did this seem romantic on my part. “No,” he replied, “I have sickle cell anemia. I'm here all the time.” I asked him if I could help. He asked for a cigarette and I gave...
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Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 141–155.
Published: 01 December 2005
... altered the lifeways of numerous groups of people of color who used
to hang out on the sidewalks and corners of the area for sex, leisure, and
other forms of commerce. Not only are these groups visibly disciplined,
they are also...
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Andolan Imaginaries
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
... are drawn from literally every corner of this linguistically hyper-diverse country, not every student has a verbal repertoire that includes fluent English, the primary language I must employ in the classroom. Many of these silences in my online classroom are signifiers of exclusion—an exclusion that demands...
FIGURES
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The Art of Being Ungovernable
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... names, theoretical discourses, or artistic trends — to be cashed in for symbolic or financial capital, as well as in so many habitual and highly incentivized modes of “cornering the market” on what amount to boutique forms of cultural production. In such a context, the possibilities for radical...
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Literature or Revolution: Writing Robust in a Postcolonial Metropolis
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 103–125.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to show me something. He asked his secretary to
bring us a book from the (also otherwise empty) cabinet in the corner of the
room. She did, and he turned the pages until he found a picture of a soccer
team — some Dutch, some Eurasian...
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Moscow and Melancholia
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2001
... attachment and connection.
86 Jonathan Flatley
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Here Benjamin speculates on the logic of love, suggesting that emo-
tion seems to require certain angles, corners, and spaces in which...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of these
buildings is often lost to all but those who have a special interest in the
history of the city and its built environment. In fact, many of the Marcos-
era buildings are poorly maintained: they smell of age; dust gathers in
their corners; their floors are cracked; graffiti stains mar their exterior...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Santhanam and Dennis, “What Do the Newly Released Witness State-
ments Tell Us?”
20. Department of Justice, Memorandum, 47.
21. Casselman, “Poorest Corner of Town.”
22. Guilford, “Seven Charts...
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Killing Time
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., Guiane
Britannique . . . Well, I was born in Canada. . . . Actually, I was raised in the
U.S. . . . So, yeah, ok. I guess you’re right . . . ‘American.’ he invited me
to have some attaya. From a dark corner of the storefront shop, he lugged
a weather-worn cylindrical contraption, mounted...
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