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Television Tricksters: Parody and Contradiction in Ghanaian Melodrama

Jesse Weaver Shipley
Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 49–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2348986
Published: 01 December 2013
... of their interior emotional worlds. In contrast, Ghanaian television melodrama is parody that shows how to act in public in order to elude moral revelations and judgment. Instead of revealing interiority, Ghanaian melodramas parody the notion of personal moral revelation, in the process masking a subject’s inner...
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This Balaclava Is Too Hot

Barbara Browning
Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 137–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2152882
Published: 01 September 2013
... of these questions through the author’s attempts to replicate both the music and the costuming of Pussy Riot, and through the theorizations of music/antimusic and masking/unmasking of various political theorists, including the members of Pussy Riot themselves. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013...
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Strange Bedfellows: Black Feminism and Antipornography Feminism

Jennifer C. Nash
Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 51–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-010
Published: 01 December 2008
... to flourish within black feminism, masked as racial progressivism. Ultimately, this strain of anti-pornography politics has promoted a black feminist sexual conservatism which systematically ignores questions of black women's pleasure, sexual agency, and desires, and has generated a normative – rather than...
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Out of the Home, into the House: Narratives and Strategies in Domestic Worker Legislative Campaigns

Sujatha Fernandes
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607552
Published: 01 September 2016
... and recognition in broader society, the narratives drew on long-standing cultural tropes of bad masters, individual victims, and the home as a site of care that have longer genealogies in slavery and colonialism. As earlier myths of domesticity masked labor relations in colonial and slave economies, so too...
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Essays from the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar

Sandy Alexandre, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Kaysha Corinealdi, Eunsong Kim
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 55–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408084
Published: 01 December 2021
... the entire pandemic: antimaskers. In an exercise of speculative cheekiness, she satirizes this group of people who have politicized mask wearing by using her fragrant soul against them. It's no coincidence that Alexandre meditates on souls because souls are certainly in the air. For example, the Pixar movie...
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Anti-Oedipus, Kinship, and the Subject of Affect: Reading Fanon with Deleuze and Guattari

Amber Jamilla Musser
Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 77–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1597341
Published: 01 September 2012
... of individual and societal change. Without the familial structure, without Oedipus, sexuality is dethroned as civilization’s reigning paradigm and becomes a cultural effect. Throughout Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon evinces a certain dis- comfort with attributing sexuality to black men. In part, I...
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What’s Normative Got to Do with It?: Toward Indigenous Queer Relationality

Jodi A. Byrd
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 105–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8680466
Published: 01 December 2020
... It is a move that, while ostensibly advocating queerness as normative to Indigenous studies, nevertheless continues to require straightness as the ground through which the queer is made valuable. That said, his use of normativity throughout Red Skin, White Masks raises substantial questions for two...
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Jimmie Durham and the Carpentry of Ambivalence

Rob Appleford
Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 91–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2010
... of legibility, it makes entire sense that Durham can claim Caliban as a “brother.” Both Durham and his alter ego Caliban Figure 1. Jimmie Durham, Untitled, 1992. [Caliban’s mask.] could, in 1992, dramatize Glass eyes, button, mud, PVC pipe, and glue. Courtesy of the failure of representa...
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Curating with Counterpowers: Activist Curating, Museum Protest, and Institutional Liberation

Gavin Grindon
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383193
Published: 01 June 2023
... cocurator Catherine Flood and I displayed examples of grassroots social movement design such as tripod barricades, lock-ons, pamphlet bombs, and “book-bloc” shields. We also shared takeaway and downloadable how-to guides for making them. One of the exhibits was a makeshift tear-gas mask, based on a design...
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Black Soil

Kimberly Bain
Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174940
Published: 01 March 2023
... installation comprising a sculpture and an accompanying video. The standalone sculpture wears an iron face mask and iron collar around their neck, reminiscent of Anastácia, the revered saint of Brazilian Catholics and Umbanda practitioners. Anastácia became an image of resistance, propelled to prominence...
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Greeting the Dead: Managing Solitary Existence in Japan

Anne Allison
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 17–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3727972
Published: 01 March 2017
... exit or retreat, what Usui sees in a recent trend at his high school of fashion masks ( deta masuku ). Face masks are commonly worn in Japan when someone has a cough or cold to protect the spread of germs. But here they are worn when healthy, ensconcing the wearer in a cordon solitaire . It’s...
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Cinema, Transgenesis, and History in The Skin I Live In

Carla Marcantonio
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 49–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2831868
Published: 01 March 2015
... disappear. Furthermore, the anonymous, blank mask through which we are frst introduced to Vera invites us to recognize that she derives from a specifc cinematic lineage: flms that meditate upon cinema’s capacity to transpose resemblance between human...
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From Shame to Drive : The Waning of Affect; or, The Rising of the Drive Image in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Sulgi Lie
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467966
Published: 01 June 2016
... reactionary. In one gruesome moment during the concluding half-hour orgy of automated violence, Drive consequently recalls the famous (non)ending of the most apocalyptic of all film noirs, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955), when the latex-masked driver drowns Bernie Rose’s companion Nino (Ron...
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Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture

Eric Stanley
Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1259461
Published: 01 June 2011
..., University of California, Santa Cruz, ca. 2006–2008 A feeling of inferiority? No, a feeling of nonexistence. — Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks “Dirty faggot!” Or simply, “Look, a Gay!” These words launch a bottle from a passing car window, the target my awaiting body...
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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362397
Published: 01 June 2018
... around the limits of selfhood at the site of ownership ultimately defers any possible discussion of slavery or Indigenous dispossession that provide the structures of predation that Sarah and her sister clones battle throughout the series. In Red Skin, White Masks , Coulthard contends that “ settler...
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The Surveillance Commodity, Unequal Exchange, and the (In)Visible Subject in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience

Laurel Ahnert
Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3968774
Published: 01 September 2017
... hitherto unavailable, precisely because it is a ghost and no longer a thing or a labor.” 38 Each commodity, therefore, ends up with a “phantomatic reality” that masks their material reality, making them easily interchangeable with one another. 39 Like the images on Elahi’s website that are abstractly...
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Race/Religion/War: An Introduction

Keith P. Feldman, Leerom Medovoi
Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3680834
Published: 01 December 2016
... phobogenesis takes the troubling inhering in this distinction a step further. Forged at the intersection of an inquiry into race, religion, and war in the French-Algerian context, in Black Skin, White Masks Fanon names coloniality’s production of an antirelational objecthood. 23 For the white gaze...
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“Los hombres no mandan aquí”: NARRATING IMMIGRANT GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN NEW YORK

Carlos Ulises Decena, Michele G. Shedlin, Angela Martínez
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 35–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-003
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Furthermore, perceptions of sex and gender relations as contentious in immigrant communities tend to emphasize women’s growing erotic agency while masking the articulation of gender and sexual hierarchies in the United States...
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China and the Human: A Visual Dossier

Ackbar Abbas
Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1468335
Published: 01 March 2012
... a white mask, sometimes with his head lowered. In most images from the series, the man is shown contemplating or fiddling with a small white object, which on closer inspection turns out to be a paper boat...
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“(Un)hooding” a Rebellion: The December 2008 Events in Athens

Rania Astrinaki
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 97–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-056
Published: 01 December 2009
... contempt in Greek culture). It was only then that we noticed that these youths, many of them under eighteen, were not the “hoods” we knew. They bore none of the socially recognizable signs of “anarchists” or bahaloi (black clothes, masks...
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