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...Lawrence J. Taylor Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Lawrence J. Taylor There Are Two Things that People Don t Like to Hear about Themselves : The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology M y title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Why Don t They Write Like Human Beings? The Case for Ideographic Languages Martin Bronfenbrenner We recommend a drastic reform of the Japanese writ­ ten language. Clearly the question of language reform is basic and urgent...

...Lazar Volin Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. L January, 1951 Number 1 RUSSIA WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT? LAZAR VOLIN* T) USSIA WAS always like that. Do you think it was better f\. under the tsars? There has always been a Siberia. Too often...

...Jeffrey Allen Tucker This essay starts with two questions: how does one define science fiction, and what difference does race makes to science fiction? Posing these questions together suggests that they are related and provides an opportunity to consider Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984...

...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions...

...Jane Juffer Duke University Press 2006 Jane Juffer Why We Like to Lose: On Being a Cubs Fan in the Heterotopia of Wrigley Field My father has been a Chicago Cubs fan since before 1945, the last time the Cubs were...

...Julie A. Carlson Julie A. Carlson Like Me: An Invitation to Domestic/Tragedy All tragedy is a family matter. -Jean-Francois Lyotard, Political Writings To propose a volume on domestic/tragedy is to believe that Westerners can get somewhere by taking seriously the long-standing relation between...

...Daniel Itzkovitz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Daniel Itzkovitz Passing Like Me In his memoirs, Waldo Frank describes the com­ plex feelings about race he experienced while traveling through the South with Jean Toomer in 1922: I felt with the Negro. This empathy...

...‐based and symbolic notions like Disneyfication (Jean Baudrillard) and “the ascendancy of whiteness” (Rey Chow). Under our contemporary Asian cycle of capital accumulation, this geographic area's affective ubiquity appears much like that of the US by saturating global public sentiment. However...

... forced a reckoning.” Kendi’s words, though likely meant to be a rhetorical device, are one of many examples of the ways that white people’s discovery of racism, anti-Blackness, and, perhaps, Blackness, in general, is often valorized as an indicator of progress toward the democratic ideals so many believe...

...Mridula Nath Chakraborty The obsession with “remains” in the wake of a devastated human century has been taken up in the work of European philosophers like Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jacqueline Rose and theorists like Marianne Hirsch and Kaja Silverman...

... years. The strategy and tactics of the movement are examined, and its rapid decline is explained. The final section outlines a number of challenges faced by contemporary debtors’ organizations like Strike Debt that emerge from the history of debt resistance and are illuminated by the story of El Barzón...

... into the process of endogenous financial hierarchization. The emergence of capitalist financial governance is conceptualized as a process whereby the state takes on bank-like properties and the capitalist state’s future-oriented institutional forms come to serve as constitutive aspects of economic value...

... me control over what happens to my body and what people make of it; gives me more freedom than they have to choose what my body/mind does in the world; makes me get younger instead of older. Like me, watercolor has its own opinion and illumination. Like me, it is mortal. When I use ink...

... deployed to fight power could avoid reproducing instances of this same power. Some, like Guy Debord, proposed a framework in which the revolutionary subject employs violence without becoming subject to such violence itself. Others, like Antonio Negri, sought to distinguish among various regimes of violence...

...Patricia Dailey What kind of experience is “literary experience,” and what might it have in common with psychedelics? This essay exposes a poetics of experience embedded within psychedelics and shows its common ground with the literary space of a poem in the Middle Ages. While writers like Aldous...

...Rodrigo Nunes Analyses of fascism often evoke an excessive tendency that pulls it beyond the very possibility of its normalization as a political order. This essay suggests that reading a phenomenon like Bolsonarismo through this prism simultaneously identifies something true about its vision...

...Rana M. Jaleel; Evren Savcı The introduction to this special issue takes up the narrations and values produced by the travels of words like queer of color , race , and racial capitalism to both comobilize and retheorize queer of color critique and the content and contours of global racial...

... on historical moments like the Spanish Civil War, the rise of anti-imperial development alternatives, and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and others. In doing so, the issue spotlights thinkers who are rarely read in a global register, such as Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Jalāl Āl-e...

... practices, the initiative empowers students to critically engage with their social, historical, and cultural contexts. Employing innovative pedagogical strategies like the marketplace of ideas and extracurricular reading groups, students are encouraged to reclaim their own forms of knowledge and challenge...