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...Jo Littler This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or nonwhite achievement in the global North and roundly contested and critiqued...

...John D. Stark W. E. B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership . By Rudwick Elliott M. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1960 . Pp. 382 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly Democratic newspapers...

...Louis C. Zucker The Art of a Minor Poet Louis C. Zucker The University of Wisconsin FRANCIS LEDWIDGE was born of Irish peas­ ants in Slane, a village the quintessence of pastoral Meath. At sixteen, he was in Dublin, a grocer s clerk; but he broke away and tramped thirty miles to his mother s...

... Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 MINOR REVIEWS Under the title of Old Voices (Doubleday, Page & Co1904), Miss Howard Weeden brings out another of her delightful books on the characteristics of the negro. Her poetry is not very striking for artistic merit, but about...

... Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 MINOR REVIEWS Among Mr. Richard Badger s (Boston) recent publications of books of poetry one finds the following: A National Paean, by Walter Allen Rice; My House, by Edward A. Brackett; Fancies and Thoughts in Verse, by Augustus George...

...E. Malcolm Carroll Nationalities and National Minorities . By Janowski Oscar I. . With a Foreword by James T. Shotwell. New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. xix , 232 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 512 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Allan Gilbert The Life and Works of George Peele, Vol. 1 (The Life and Minor Works) . By Horne David H. ( Prouty Charles Tyler , General editor). New Haven : Yale University Press , 1952 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 298 The South Atlantic...

...Robert Samuel Rogers Roman Rule in Asia Minor, to the End of the Third Century after Christ . By Magie David . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2 vols., 1950 . Pp. xxi , 1661 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 428 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... of northern Iraq, they turned on the long-established religious minorities in the area with tremendous brutality, especially toward the Yazidi religious minority. Huge numbers of men were executed, and women and children were abducted and subjected to sexual violence. In an attempt at systematic destruction...

... to them to the realm of the intimate, the private, the particular, that is, treating theirs as minority (and consequently minor) issues. Such minoritization of women is the result of a historical transition to colonial modernity. This transition was driven at first by the process of conquest...

... on the minority community and why these moves were seen as precursors to their possible political disenfranchisement. It will examine the manner in which anti-CAA/NPR/NRC protest sites came up spontaneously across the country, how these protests were organized, and their lack of a clear leadership. It will also...

...Ferruccio Gambino This reminiscence intends to sketch out the political and intellectual atmosphere in which a minor episode took place within a wide redefinition of political activity: how a tiny but diverse group of young radicals came to read W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the second...

...Saba Mahmood; Peter G. Danchin A central claim of the right to religious liberty is to protect the right of individuals and groups, particularly religious minorities, to practice their beliefs freely without state coercion and threat of discrimination. Through a comparative reading of Egyptian...

... nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minority (which includes the protesters). This essay proposes that the culture war waged by the liberal opposition coexists with government propaganda in a kind of symbiosis that blocks the creation of a broader popular protest movement...

.... However, would it be right to adapt all social and economic dissatisfaction to reformist slogans? This monolithic construct restricts the mass of people to the category of the privileged minority; this is not only a simplification but a conscious disregard of the multiplicity and differences of the social...

... capitalism, the new regime of domination capitalizes on culture as a site for monitoring social desire. In Turkey, “memory” and “minorities” emerged as two privileged topics of cultural discourse through which the state seeks to achieve real political effects. The Gezi resistance is best seen...

...John MacKay The Russian Revolution, so often monumentalized as a singular event—not least by the Bolsheviks themselves—was an inherently plural happening, involving the disparate actions and aspirations of peasants, workers, national minorities, and many others. Although early Soviet cinema...

..., and demand civic entitlements (even in the absence of citizenship), reveals forms of reciprocity and activism that do not fit prevailing models for Palestinian political subjectivity in this context. Energies and impulses redirected into small-scale, seemingly nonideological “minor politics” challenge...

... chapters of Adorno’s in the Authoritarian Personality project, where Adorno attempts “to examine the relation of anti-minority prejudice to broader ideological and characterological patterns.” On the surface, this chapter is quite literally a reporting of prejudice in the voices of interview subjects...

...Veena Dubal As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged human bodies and economies across the world, millions of app-deployed drivers in the United States—primarily immigrants and subordinated racial minorities—faced a dangerous and perplexing paradox created by law. Simultaneously treated as independent...