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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., I noticed a little stone construction looking like a miniature church on a short pillar, 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...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
... learned what end times means, what it is made up of. I saw a thin young man, 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...
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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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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., especially one like Jawaharlal Nehru University, whose students 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...
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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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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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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2001
... attachment and connection. 86 Jonathan Flatley ST 66.04 Flatley 4/9/01 11:57 AM Page 87 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 (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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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...