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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the efforts by a hometown association of
immigrant men living in Newburgh, New York, to conduct public works
in their hometown of Boquerón, Mexico. Rivera’s film is the first to docu-
ment the growing phenomenon of hometown associations in the United
States. It is also the first of his films to become...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 1–12.
Published: 01 September 2006
... spheres, such as law.
Alex Rivera, in an interview with Decena and Gray, reflects on his
documentary film The Sixth Section, about the mechanics and contradic-
tions of a Newburgh, New York – based hometown association. Focused...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
... thing, this “side project,” that took me emotionally, spiritually,
and even physically back to my hometown of Peoria, Illinois. For it was
in this, my midwestern hometown, the consummate American city where
it must “play” if it’s going to “play” at all, that ten black women between
the ages...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
...: University of California Press, 2004), 66; cited in McGrath, Postsocialist
Modernity, 151. On Jia and De Sica, see also Michael Berry, Jia Zhangke’s “Hometown
Trilogy”: Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures (London: British Film Institute,
2009), 39–41.
8. See, for instance, Jia Zhangke...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 35–54.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., “ ‘It is the only way I can survive’: Gender Paradox among Recent
Mexicana Immigrants to Iowa,” Sociological Perspectives 47 (2004): 393 – 408.
8. Luin Goldring shows, for instance, how hometown associations function
to construct a space for male exercise of political power in the homelands after...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 55–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
...
their lives with their families and in their hometowns. Public advocates
and policymakers should continue to develop and establish resources,
like worker centers, where these men can establish themselves as good...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and penetrated the most mundane recesses of hometown
America. College mailrooms began quarantining cookies from home; tons
of mail, including batches of SAT exams, were sealed and stockpiled for
future anthrax testing; numbers of commercial flights were redirected and
forced to land when white powder...
Journal Article
Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 9–18.
Published: 01 September 2007
... by
night and dragged individual protesters to prison. On the anniversary of
Zapata’s death, a crowd of Tepoztecos boarded a bus bound for a com-
memoration ceremony in the hero’s nearby hometown. The police halted
the pilgrimage, beat up...
Journal Article
Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
... the awful truth: more trouble would follow in L.A.,
soon, unless the city’s low-wage service sector, underwritten by hotel
employers’ union-busting tactics, received significant pay hikes. Not sur-
prisingly, the hometown business community and incumbent mayor Tom...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... In the first paragraph Tommy tells us he is dying; he also reveals
that he will be leaving his few material possessions “to a not-for-profit
group in Chicago, which is [his] hometown.”24 Rogelio first appears in the
third paragraph, but we do not know his story...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 113–139.
Published: 01 December 2004
... are in the
mode of disappearance as the state of West Bengal moves into economic
restructuring. The inscriptions of Kolkata, in Bengali, are never read by
international commentary, Left and Right.18 As I write, I have a vision of
writing a companion piece for my hometown. How will it relate to the early...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2011
... Neves ∙ Beijing en Abyme
Figure 10. Olympic celebration/malaise, in Jia Zhangke’s Unknown Pleasures (2002)
televisual urbanism interested not only in documenting changes in the
social body, but in signaling back.
Unknown Pleasures is set in the director’s hometown of Fenyang...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 47–66.
Published: 01 June 2011
... as the magnet that draws two young professionals back to their
hometown of Smitsrivier. But the novel concludes with images of dispersal
that cannot be domesticated into clear assertions of national homecoming.
Mpondo, driving away from Smitsrivier, envisions a future that is defined
by the impulse...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... teenagers. Several were new to Mexico City, having fled the violence that tormented their rural hometowns in the states of Guerrero, Michoacán, and Tamaulipas. One of the recent arrivals was a fifteen-year-old named Lalo who hailed from a small war-torn town close to the US-Mexico border. He had been...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and we are still in New Orleans but we nonetheless find ourselves in Flint, Michigan, as well. The small midwestern city became a household name in places far afield from Michigan in the late 1980s after filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore cast his hometown as the star of the documentary Roger...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
... he’ll spend his time. He’s worried about getting depressed and tells me that if he stops shaving, I will know he is not doing very well. But despite days’ worth of stubble, despite forest fires that suddenly erupt in Manny’s California hometown, the two of them are not in touch. Then, back at the Fisher...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 83–107.
Published: 01 December 2000
... that
scaled the Craig. Even so, it was nowhere near as run down as other his-
toric sites in or around my hometown, like the Alloa Tower, once the
Wallace’s Monument 93
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2009
... “Schoolboy” Taylor. She recalled how, much to her
amazement, her father often stopped to chat in Spanish with Latinos on
the streets of New York City and their hometown of Hartford, Connecti-
cut.1 Taylor’s interactions, long after his playing days had ended, capture
how blacks from different...
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Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Mark John Sanchez, Martin F. Manalansan, IV, Karen Buenavista Hanna, Gary C. Devilles ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the Santo Nino were peddled to a jewelry store in Aranque Market in Santa Cruz. Hairpiece and vestments were buried in a remote lot in Macabebe. Pampanga, the hometown of the perpetrators, was the hardest hit in the Great Flood of 1972. A solemn procession of the recovered statuette of the Holy Child...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
Published: 01 December 2022
... electricity and water but also to stoke and channel stronger feelings of national identification and belonging. It was an infrastructure designed not to disappear as substrate but to hail fronterizos visually, spatially, and discursively in central, highly visible locations in their hometowns...
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