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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 27–47.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., exposing the persistence of colonial racism in contemporary France, where metaphors of hospitality have effaced the fraught history of (post)colonial immigration. Placing Mohamed Take Your Suitcase in the context of post-1967 Maghrebi and Franco-Maghrebi pro-Palestinian activism, my reading shows...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Shu-mei Shih This essay brings into dialectical consideration the relationship between postsocialism and posthumanism in China through the life story of Marxist humanism from the global 1960s to the present across Eastern Europe, France, and the United States. It especially foregrounds the American...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marc Kohlbry Abstract This article leverages the Nuit Debout social movement in France and contemporary French science fiction to explore the links between information technologies and economic precarity. To accomplish this, it foregrounds a short story born of the movement, Ketty Steward's “ALIVE...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 57–83.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of this analysis, the essay discusses other of Mambéty's films including Touki Bouki, La petite vendeuse de soleil , and Le franc , investigating particularly how issues of social mobility and stasis are developed across Mambéty's body of work. It also discusses Mambéty's work in light of works by Sembène...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 51–69.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to the phenomenon of “de-Maoization” in France during the late 1970s and 1980s, which was accompanied by a revival of human rights. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 “China in Our Heads” Althusser, Maoism, and Structuralism Camille Robcis In a 1972 interview titled “Pamphlet against...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... as drama provides a greater understanding of identity politics in the “New Europe,” since Cape Verdeans, unlike other immigrant populations, for example, Turks in Germany or Moroccans in France, have never been construed as a complete “other” to Europe. The tension between creole as hybridity and creole...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Sylvester A. Johnson This essay examines Black support for US militarism from the 1890s to the First World War amid devastating forms of institutional racism. As the first African American soldiers were deployed to France to liberate Europe’s White citizens, the US government hanged thirteen Black...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... It then situates Hocquenghem’s text in relation to Michel Foucault’s reflections about origins of politics in ancient Greek in his first lecture course at the Collège de France, which took place the year before Hocquenghem’s book appeared, to suggest that the relation between the sexual and the political may...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2000
... , 14 June. ____. 1998c . Payé 1 franc au Salvador, vendu 400 francs à Nantes. Le Monde , 2 July. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996 . Playing with modernity: The decolonization of Indian cricket. In Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., creating a highly cosmopolitan but also extremely polarized social geography in the Martinican capital of Fort-de-France. The fragmented geography of urban space described in Chamoiseau’s novel ensures that the freedom of the city will be alloyed with suffering, its cosmopolitanism shot through...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
... amnesia. Or, as Ann Laura Stoler argues persuasively (considering France), this condition may be better named “colonial aphasia,” involving “an occlusion of knowledge . . . a difficulty speaking, a difficulty generating a vocabulary that associates appropriate words and concepts with appropriate things...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 11–36.
Published: 01 March 2009
... it. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 The Racial State of the Everyday and the Making of Ethnic Statistics in Britain Jacqueline Nassy Brown Dateline Paris. 18 November 2005. The biggest explosion of street violence in France since the late 1960s has jolted...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
... into English in 1998,14 which is set in a bidonville on the outskirts of Martinique’s capital, Fort-de-France. Davis cites it, as do Dawson and Yeager, making it a kind of de facto representative literary text for the “Planet of Slums.” While...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Frances Negrón-Muntaner Duke University Press 2000 4. Negron 4/24/00 11:23 AM Page 83 Feeling Pretty WEST SIDE STORY AND PUERTO RICAN IDENTITY DISCOURSES...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 97–105.
Published: 01 December 2008
... But this is not just an American phenomenon. In a 13 February 2008 speech to members of France’s Jewish community, French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced a new educational initiative: beginning in the fall of 2008, each French fifth grader would be assigned the life story of an individual French child...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 39–52.
Published: 01 June 2007
... the relationship between the United States and France, especially among supporters of the American president. Innumerable strains emerged on the western side of the Atlantic, including the renaming of “french 48 Kennan Ferguson fries...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): np.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of the Family in Twentieth-­ Century France (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). Her next project will focus on the rhetoric of human rights in France as it developed in reaction to Marxism, poststructuralism, and third-­worldism during...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and relative to its own affairs, the antidemocratic methods dear to Stalin; in short, by everything that allows us to speak of a French Stalinism that has a life more durable than Stalin himself and which, we may conjecture, would have produced in France...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 9–12.
Published: 01 December 2014
...! the gendercohesion, la genrecohesion, le tout-­va-­bien-­ensemble des genres bien distingués en mâle et femelle  — oh, tu sais, José Esteban, les genrecohérents chez nous en France ont très peur ces temps-­ci car les pouvoirs publics veulent introduire un peu de gendertheory à l’école pour les...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): np.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Slavery  Rachel Sarah O’Toole 19 Sexuality and Gender in Transnational Spaces: Realignments in Rural Veracruz Families Due to International Migration  Rosío Córdova Plaza 37 In Search of Lourdes Casal’s “Ana Veldford”  Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Yolanda Martínez – San Miguel 57...