... to a racial state that reinscribed the racist order of White supremacism. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 war civil religion sacrifice African American soldiers World War I racial state From the early years of the buffalo soldiers following the US Civil War to the First World War...

...Zahid R. Chaudhary This article analyzes the discourse concerning the assimilation of Muslim minorities in the United States and suggests that calls for assimilation are solicitations for a form of self-renunciation and sacrifice. Yet such solicitations occur against the economic and political...

... Rohatyn’s longtime home), gives his opinion of “What New York Will Have to Give Up”: school construction and repair, among other improvements to New York’s decaying infrastructure (Rattner 2001). Another period of pain, austerity, and sacrifice has come upon New Yorkers, Rattner reluctantly proclaims...

... strong allies of America. The World War II generation endured great suffering and sacrifice because they understood that defeating tyranny in Europe and Asia was essential to the security and freedom of America...

... to overcoming, it survive?” but “what does it do with its excess?” In his reading, destruction must be central to social organization. Warfare, sacrifice, religious devo- also always builds tion, monuments, art, and gifts all constitute forms of waste and excess; only a healthy society partakes...

...” (“Oh Lord our God arise/Scatter her enemies”) similarly embed militarizing exhortation. But militarization is exemplified also by “memorial day” holidays commemorating the fallen, sacrifice for the nation or for freedom celebrated through military parades. They are often religiously ordained. Religious...

.... In “African Americans, the Racial State, and the Cultus of War: Sacrifice and Citizenship,” Sylvester A. Johnson unfolds an especially condensed moment in the colonial framing of war as a means of race making. Johnson excavates the late nineteenth-century era of growing US military power as it extended racial...

... is selflessly dedicated to her hus- band to the point of ascetic renunciation. The pativrata’s virtues of “fem- inine self-sacrifice, virtue, fidelity, and chastity,” which Chakravarti (1990, 71) lists as the ideal qualities of Sita, are also, it can be pointed out, qual- ities that are coextensive...

... body politic and thus presumes the privilege of whiteness and masculinity that has under- written Western political personhood. In this context both the political Left and Right have circulated loss of limb as the signature sacrifice...

... mothers in the Hudson Valley, a relative degree of social isolation is also a significant factor. My findings show that in spite of these challenges and sacrifices, transnational mothers are making solid contributions to their families...

... (binary gendered bodies and nation-states). Both are marked by violence and disciplining. Why would we want this? Why sacrifice other tellings of embodiment, desire, experience? Only decolonial love can move us sufficiently, can compel us to draw new maps, to invent new purposes for our desire...

..., and increasing intraracial class division, The Autobiography also works to strengthen the ideal by centering on an ethic of self-sacrifice. It textually notes the transitory incarnation of an ethic of self-sacrifice in behaviors, gestures...

... climate for immigrants, we feel next door. that the phrase “the border next door” is appropriate because it evokes a range of meanings. These include surveillance and militarization, hostil- ity and violence, clandestinity and invisibility, and individual and family sacrifice. At the same time...

..., but critically tested and laboriously gathered fact marshaled under scientific law and feeding rather than choking the glorious world of fancy and imagination of poetry and art, of beauty and deep culture” and 4) “Sacrifice . . . When I...

... other's struggles and sacrifices. Because of this friendliness, the anger of alienation and radical politics of humiliation is out of place and cannot be heard, not least because of the longer temporality of injustice and violence it archives. This is simply no place for protest. Membership...

... directly: food and other physical requirements do not constitute the “whole life of somebody who is living.” Willing to die in the struggle to gain freedom for himself and his compatriots, Verdieu and other refugees spoke in the terms of sacrifice and martyrdom. “I must tell you that if I’m...

... critical paragon, made a point of mocking Confucian-derived rhetoric about selfless toil in aid of the nation. He was especially scornful of those of his peers who (in unintended mimicry of the state) extolled self-sacrifice only...

..., in another location. However, this is not a mode of sacrifice, in which the destruction of the medium of communication is necessary for the production of that rela- tion. Here, by contrast, the mediatization of terror announces the mobility...

... parents. One of the most significant measures taken by the new governor of Ramallah was the protection he offered to the new lifestyles. The intifada culture of austerity and self-sacrifice and its youthful policers had all but eradicated nightlife and other forms of entertainment. The new...

... that commensurate with their skills and levels of educational attainment. The cruel indifference of the market- place does not seem to deter the chronically discounted. Indeed, and largely because of artists’ traditions of sacrifice...