... 2008 Duke University Press 2008 María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo “How many Mexicans [is] a horse worth?” The League of United Latin American Citizens, Desegregation Cases, and Chicano Historiography Whose White Settler Colonialism...

...Paul Carter James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man . By Wagenknecht Edward . New York : Oxford University Press , 1971 . 276 pp. $7.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 441 competent and forthright editor in an age of virulent personal...

...Manie (Jong-Man Choi); Joyce C. H. Liu; Brett Neilson; Irene (HyeJung) Ahn Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh...

...Kathy E. Ferguson This essay looks at the Russian Revolution as both a historical event and a productive symbol in the work of anarchists in the United States and Russia in the early twentieth century. The February and October Revolutions were formative in many ways: many immigrants returned...

... spread of Pentecostalism around the world in the last hundred years has subjected many communities to just this kind of evental transformation. Given this, how might philosophical theories of the event that claim Paul as their patron saint be read in relation to what it means for Pentecostal converts...

... have been thwarted by a number of discursive conditions. Many women's accounts of miscarriage attest to the absence of familiar language that is specific to the contours of this experience of loss. In its place is language appropriate to the death scene, the language of failure, or the explicit...

...Naomi C. Hanakata; Filippo Bignami Many of the defining characteristics of the urban are shifting to virtual platforms. This process imbues all dimensions of urban life, from governance to politics and participation. During the global pandemic and the lockdown in many countries, this shift has...

... 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...

...Ilya Budraitskis In his essay “The Weakest Link of Managed Democracy: How the Parliament Gave Birth to Nonparliamentary Politics,” Ilya Budraitskis reflects on the model of “managed democracy” in Russian political culture and on the specific place of the Russian Parliament. In December 2011, many...

...Ben Trott In many liberal polities, there is an emerging “common sense” that it is unjust to deny same-sex couples the right to marry, if they so choose. This popular conception of things could certainly claim support in the liberal political philosophy of John Rawls and others. Yet, as many queer...

...Felipe Magalhães In 2016, the progressive government of the Workers’ Party in Brazil came to a halt through a highly contested impeachment process that gave way to an aggressive policy switch toward a hardline neoliberal fix. This article addresses the conjuncture of the many trajectories that led...

...George Caffentzis The history of debt resistance has many lessons for those involved in the making of a new debtors’ movement in the United States. This article attempts to articulate these lessons by concentrating on the experience of the most important debtors’ movement in Mexico of the 1990s, El...

... to manifestations of unfounded racist fears. Many factors come into play in understanding this phenomenon, including the practices that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the effects of globalization on the meat industry, the changing nature of the relationship between humans and animals in ranching...

... colonialist phenomenon, despite its unique origins and chronological timing. This scholarly orientation was shunned for many years and was not properly attempted due to ideological considerations. This essay is an addendum to the important recent attempts by a few critical Israeli sociologists to introduce...

... to challenge increasingly standardized narratives of modernism in many parts of Africa that link it primarily with reverse discourses, resistance narratives, and political independence to suggest more fluid approaches to modernist subjectivity and attention to the varied “tenses” for the modern? © 2010 Duke...

... increasing public political role in many parts of the world. The primary object of this volume is to initiate a dialogue between two emerging intellectual discourses that have been important to the new prominence of Christianity as a topic of scholarly discussion. One of these discourses is being constructed...

..., Sadequain Naqqash in Pakistan, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi in Iran, Shakir Hassan Al Sa'id in Iraq, and many others created a new aesthetic language of calligraphic figuration and abstraction. Their groundbreaking artistic projects can be understood in a variety of ways: as individual and subjective...

...Kenneth Surin The paper begins by examining the conditions that allowed theory to emerge and flourish in the American academy. It then proposes a typology for grouping together and analyzing the papers given at the March 2010 “Theory Now,” from which many of the essays in this issue originated...

... and inanimate reality. Many of the fathers and Thomas Aquinas held that fallen reason must be humbled and reeducated through the senses themselves. In the absence of human rational government, the divine Logos itself descends into the human sensory order, supremely in the Eucharist. In the liturgy our senses...

... governance, or tribal sovereignty, as well as on subsistence rights, a particularly urgent issue because many Alaska Natives remain dependent on subsistence practices for survival. Consequently, Alaska Native politics since ANCSA has centered on campaigns for sovereignty and subsistence rights. Despite...