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Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 11–28.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Guatemala. With this drastic increase has come a spike in the use of crack cocaine, as well as the proliferation of drug rehabilitation centers. Run by Pentecostal Christians, these centers warehouse users (against their will) in the name of liberation. Locked up, tied up, and told to shape up, these users...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Ana Teresa Ortiz; Laura Briggs Duke University Press 2003 The Culture of Poverty, Crack Babies, and Welfare Cheats
THE MAKING OF THE “HEALTHY WHITE BABY CRISIS”
In 2002, a researcher looking for endocrine markers of early childhood Ana...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Maisam Alomar This article takes up the issue of substance use disorder, arguing that the discourses surrounding the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the present-day opioid epidemic rely on similarly racialized rhetoric, and examining the implications regarding pain and suffering, safety...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 27–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... at
least), to write from the space of grief. I could read the words on the page,
but my voice cracked at the last sentence. Something leaked out, just as I
stopped talking. The body. The throat. Which of course had a dramatic
effect. Uncanny...
Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 21–42.
Published: 01 June 2012
... lauded the Chris-
tian duty to serve, to understand (with humility) that no one is perfect,
that no one is a robot. Shuttling between the themes of crack and cubicles
as well as redemption and renewal, Andrés pitched his testimony broadly...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 59–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
...” and the “full moon” effect. Pete Hamill informed New York, “ They were coming downtown from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference and ignorance. They were coming from a land with
no fathers.” Viewed through that prism, there is restraint and lack of hyper-racialization in coverage of Black...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the surrounding environment. These realities are further epitomized by the shack itself. Lacking electricity, the building is dark and moist—the opposite of Juan’s (that is, Reygadas’s) modernist home. Narrow strips of light stream through the building’s cracks, highlighting the skin of an old man standing...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 47–57.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., in the head or in the heart; and, in a moment,
wholly, flling him with an anguish that he could never in his life have imag-
ined, that he surely could not endure, that even now he could not believe,
had opened him up; had cracked him open...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 9–20.
Published: 01 September 2002
... vigilantism. Then
the CIA–crack cocaine trafficking stories finally broke. Hillary Clinton
compelled her husband to free Puerto Rican political prisoners to win
votes in that community, a move that required admitting they existed. By
then, Mumia Abu-Jamal had become America’s most famous political
prisoner...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 21–29.
Published: 01 September 2002
... steamer.
I left a house behind: red stone in the room
where the man stood, flesh marking a staircase.
Ribcage, a furious flower that cracks space.
Now I live on an island by the mid-Atlantic shore...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 21–33.
Published: 01 June 2006
... that cannot be forgotten or ignored? What to do with those
cracks and bumps and detours on the highways and byways of national his-
tory that seemed smooth from a safe retrospective distance? The answer: a
virtual history that can be modified after periodic tastes. This is the more
dangerous, if less...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to the multiple affective lives of security, some that turn up cracks in the hegemonic state story, some others that foreground contradictory diasporic and illiberal attachments. We emphasize the importance of being attuned to the ways in which religion, race, and gender articulate together in specific historical...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
... approach, the cryptic
darkness of cracked backdoors, the half-rabid dogs humping up against
fences, the lazy banal splendor of Los Angeles. Domesticity uncorking
like the intro of a Twilight Zone episode.
The 2003 strike by the mechanics’ union of the Metropolitan Trans-
portation Authority (MTA...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 69–92.
Published: 01 March 2021
... steal. We print flyers for our revolutions on their printers, use their classrooms and back rooms to organize and redirect research dollars. We cheat. We play. We expose the cracks in the walls. We let in other people who are like us and worse. We linger. But they can't know all that we do because...
Journal Article
Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 75–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with the effects of these manipulations. 2 We learn from the femmes who've come and written before us, comparing persistent and dangerous desires, experiences, troubles, and passions. The emotional work we undertake opens up possibilities in our bodies and also in the social worlds we forge and share. We crack...
Journal Article
Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 33–49.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., unanticipated alliances, assertions of dignity, mutual respect, and a willingness to further develop political consciousness. Insurgent pathways are formed when messages and materials pass through storm drains and sewer pipes and between cracks in walls. Jackson's radical reverberations are found both...
Journal Article
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 109–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
... identity for
human identity. So they’ll talk about a crack-addict mother throwing her
baby out a window, and in order not to seem prejudiced they don’t think
about or mention any particulars of her upbringing or the culture she
was born...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 45–63.
Published: 01 December 2010
... working players are replaced by retailers. But
gold farming goes on, and game owners not surprisingly have responded
to the underground market in gold coins. Yet, rather than crack down on
buyers (otherwise good paying customers of games), they crack down on
gold farmers by banning their accounts...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 145–153.
Published: 01 March 2018
... methodically imitate the word discipline of the scholars that therefore we are? I cannot be the only one who periodically cracks under the strain of translating English into English. That is to say, the overlooked undercommons is invisibilized by an imperial university that legislates language in the long...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 121–127.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., despite always receiving back the letter saying “return to sender”:
“address unknown,” or, “no such person.”
Back in the ER, I crack a joke, and another, and they are not funny.
The joke is on me this time, the ice has...
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