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...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

..., both BLM protests and the movement itself have been labeled as irrational and dangerous, in part because protestors have refused to hide their anger at contemporary circumstances of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and beyond. This essay challenges commonplace demands to eject anger...

...Caren Irr This essay differentiates the project of ideology critique proper from its less ambitious relative, propaganda labeling. It then proceeds to identify four tasks whose undertaking is necessary in order to update and refresh the project of ideology critique. These four tasks include: 1...

... on the streets by working, begging, or stealing, and why they label the whole range of such activities as “work.” In examining the various kinds of labor the children engage in as they try to make a living in Rio’s destructured, largely informal economy, I use “child street labor” to refer to these varied forms...

... of those restrained in their liberty. Among those labeled the “worst of the worst,” especially offshore at Guantánamo Bay, the innocent fare far worse than those who have been charged with terrorist acts. How can they prove that they are not “illegal enemy combatants,” a category invented by White House...

... should be sold under any ad­ vertisement that it is free from such injurious effects unless it is really so. The amended bill, with weakened labeling provisions and no con­ trols at all over nostrum advertising, passed the Senate on February 21. Four days earlier, in the midst of the Senate debate...

... dissolves. For the most part, except through innocence or medi­ tated acts of will, men see through the distorted presentations of ideological commitment. To attach a label to an aspect of human ex­ perience, much as a bushranger might necessarily see, not a man or a policeman, but a trap, implies a prior...

... of marketing, such as the major labels undertook (Nashville record companies gen­ erally didn t have marketing departments until the 1970s); (2) lack of retail outlets where country music customers could feel comfortable; (3) lack of accurate reporting of sales figures, which distorted the picture of country...

... Woke Me Up. We recorded it in Florida at a small studio that had been converted from a produce market. In the New Wave strategy dominant at the time we released it on our own label, Chlorinated Records. An Atlanta entrepreneur, Danny The Anti-Mogul Beard, who had backed the B-52 s independent hit...

..., was at the same time disc jockey, label owner, TV star, songwriter, publisher, and part-owner of a record-pressing plant. And, arguably, 1950s rock & roll relied much less on publicity and much more on presentation. You did not hear the new single advertised on the radio, but heard the song itself. A would...

..., and it infuses such decisions as how bands choose material, how record labels sign artists, how promoters conceive of and arrange festivals, and how fans describe and debate the music. The economic and institutional problems faced by blue­ grass, which are discussed in ibma meetings as well as in the pages...

... for the Okeh label a version of The Sinking of the Titanic," one of the numerous folk bal­ lads that had been inspired by the sinking of the luxury liner twelve years earlier. Although some would later claim that the Stoneman disc sold in huge numbers, there is little hard evidence to suggest...

... of these principals at BEthedale has an easy identifica­ tion or label: each has chosen it and for each it is vaEdated through certain acts and reinforced by the assent of others. Such a label is seriously dehumanizing in its effect. Old Moodie is the Repentant Sinner making amends; his daughters are the Queen...

... Mystery Train. (Parker was another Sun Records artist, a black blues singer whose career would stretch into the 1970s.) The fact that Presley routinely borrowed from any number of musical genres, not to mention that his work has itself been tagged with any num­ ber of generic labels pop, rock, gospel...

... in Dallas in 1929 as Oak Cliff T-Bone. His move into amplification in the mid-1930s seems to have hardly affected the style heard on the 1929 disc, at least at first. His pick­ ing on his early and mid-1940s sides for the Black and White label was clean, with a terse, dry tone, and minimal vibrato...

...-sounding and irresolvable in their traditional formulations, retain consid­ erable contemporary force: for example, the significance of such labels as classic and masterpiece ; the extent to which the value of literary works is intrinsic to them or a matter of fashion ; whether literary judg­ ments...

... an organic cause and to be, in principle, physically remediable. According to this argument, 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly mental illness will come to be regarded as a label conceived in ignorance of the actual organic processes responsible for producing certain psycho­ logical and behavioral...

... of attaching the label political to a particular trial. Such a diversion seems quite likely in light of the pejorative connotation to the labeling of a trial as political. Yet an exploration of the aptness of the pejorative can aid greatly in understanding both the problem of definition and that of role...

... as a means of registering a protest. These occasions have been rare, however. Most of those who have voted against a foreign aid bill and then labeled their vote as a protest have simply been yielding to the personal luxury of voting against a politically unpopular program. The vot­ ing records through...

... prisons and on our streets is not criminality but criminalization: the conjuring of phantasms of criminality. Much of our population is in thrall to labels like “criminal,” “threat,” or “thug”—as in the Dayan • With Law at the Edge of Life  631 acquittal...