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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 111–122.
Published: 01 September 2013
... were made manifest, but nowhere was that more true than in the early work of the Clash. Their 1977 cover of reggae artist Junior Murvin’s 1976 Jamaican hit “Police and Thieves” represents an unusual moment in the checkered history of white bands covering black music. The cover song has always been...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Christen A. Smith Abstract Examining Black women's experiences with policing, this article argues that police terror is not predicated upon gender; rather, it enacts gender by undoing gender . Thus, it requires a new arithmetic of time and space in order to read beyond normative, hypermasculine...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 7. Police walking on La Quinta, with a mural behind them that reads, “82,998 Disappeared People.”
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1. Image capture of Luana's signature on the police report following her beating.
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in In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1. Police-brutality-related tweets per day, June 2014–May 2015. Source: Freelon, McIlwain, and Clark, “Beyond the Hashtag.” Courtesy of Deen Freelon.
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 275–284.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Nayan Shah Duke University Press 2005 Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom
In June 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling that Nayan Shah
decriminalized consensual sodomy. Lawrence and Garner...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Dean Spade This article argues that, in the face of worsening conditions from climate change, enhanced border enforcement, a growing wealth gap, housing crises, and policing, social movements should focus on expanding mutual aid strategies. Mutual aid projects directly address survival needs...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2016
... operate today. Arguing that the #BlackLivesMatter movement has created a persistent looking as a means of making such issues visible, Mirzoeff describes how the grand jury prosecutors turned the event into a high-definition visual space in which only physical evidence and police testimony could be trusted...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
... themselves to the actions of a police state and sanctioned a system of apartheid governance within the boundaries of the United States. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Hailing the Twelve Million
U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportation,
and the Imaginary of Lawful Violence
Alicia Schmidt Camacho...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to record such images. It concludes that these images partly demonstrate the forms of power that are exercised in policing the border, but they also question some of the key assumptions that sit at the heart of neoliberal trading regimes. In particular, the essay indicates how the separation of labor...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 21–41.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and criminalization and the historical context of black struggles for self-determination and representation within contemporary cultural production? How is a popular hip hop song that explicitly recalls an infamous police beating, and implicitly brackets the ensuing historic urban uprising, connected to a sonic...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... for house arrest while policing the terms of their confinement. Second, this article presents the author’s fieldwork involving a women’s collective that offers art-related workshops to encourage incarcerated women to develop a different understanding of their agency and potential. Institutions...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Deborah A. Thomas Abstract This essay probes the project of security (defined as the protection of whiteness, class hierarchy, and heteropatriarchy) in relation to the desire for safety (glossed as “having somebody”). In probing this relation within a context in which police violence...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 83–101.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Michael Mandiberg; Robin D. G. Kelley; Jayna Brown; Tavia Nyong'o Abstract This eclectic set of essays includes work about Zoom, the murder by police of Rayshard Brooks, blackness and public space, and black joy and uchromatism. [email protected] [email protected] jbrow572...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... empire and reason. It exposes how love and hate are affectively policed to create a field of good and bad objects and liberal and indigenous subjects, regulated by a colonial morality that is not the cause but rather the effect of processes of repair. What are the colonial dimensions of object relations...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
... infrastructure in the context of the terror-industrial complex, which implements technologies of policing as part of the state and toward a range of community-based approaches in the nonprofit industry. By drawing attention to the concepts of racial becoming and racial infrastructure, this intervention asks what...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the cultural production of the imagined national community for the continent’s young nation-states, this emergent body of detective mysteries, police procedurals, trial dramas, and noir thrillers enlists the popular crime tale’s generic preoccupations with unchecked desire, social order, and state authority...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 61–63.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group This essay discusses recent developments in black surveillance studies, science and technology studies (in particular the social life of DNA), and everyday practices of resistance and survival under segregation and policing. References Agard-Jones Vanessa...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and policing. All of this is to say that the ways that the relevance of the arts is constantly questioned and then defended become an insidious way for framing the overall perception of culture. If the Left accepts this framing, it is to our great peril, as it allows us to overlook all the ways in which...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and others seek to spread the word about the terrible things that the state is doing—about murders by police or about the effects of big pharma or the agricultural-industrial complex, for instance—on the assumption that knowledge of these things will make people angry and that people will then be motivated...
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