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...S. C. Mitchell Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Do Our Colleges Pay?* By S. C. Mitchell, President of the University of South Carolina. This is a time when those who are called upon to support our colleges and universities are everywhere asking: Does it pay? Does it pay? I am...

...Gregson Davis This essay revisits the vexed question of Aimé Césaire's poetics in relation to the choice of the language and style of his signature prose-poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal . It seeks to reframe the issue in terms of the ancient Greco-Roman concept of “levels of style...

.... Even border residents have learned to live with the drug war as part of their communities. They hardly pay attention to it any- more. On the border, the drug war is part of the landscape. The drug war on the border is a constantly escalating cat-and-mouse...

..., essais et discours (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Présence Africaine) reorganizes and reorients the study of Césaire's principal texts, especially the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal . Arnold's prefaces in that volume and in his edition of The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return...

... human bodies in kind or accept payments for receiving or detaining people on the move. It closes by critically analyzing the coincidence of migration and currency “crises” in Europe, paying particular attention to the position of Greece in 2015. Crucial to the argument is an investigation of how...

... by black people in the French context. We pay attention to the fact that the outrage exceeded frontiers of political organization and took the form of a mass revolt, under the “black” banner. But it has also shown limits in terms of translating this indignation into a political project of emancipation...

... created massive structural suffering and devalued vital social activities from which capital extracts value for which it pays nothing. As this crisis of social reproduction has developed internationally and taken on increasingly racialized forms, new and different forms of struggle over social...

... is not only the stories the films tell about these historical junctures but also the way they implicate or fail to implicate themselves and their audience in those stories; in other words, the depth of the self-scrutiny they propose and the incisiveness of their diagnosis of the Left. Paying special attention...

...Roderick A. Ferguson “Purifoy: The Shit, the World, and Their Remaking” analyzes the assemblage artist Noah Purifoy’s role in the Watts Rebellion of 1965, paying particular attention to Purifoy’s position as the director of the Watts Towers Arts Center and as the artist and organizer...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

... into closer dialogue is mutually productive. Studies of digital sex work would benefit from critical insights into power and control in platform work, while scholars of platform work—and of work and employment more generally—have much to learn from paying attention to the gendered labor of sex workers...

... with colonial ties such as Latin America and the global South. Technologists and those who can pay them are largely driving these discourses and decisions forward, while regulators and regular citizens struggle to catch up. If the buzz around blockchain opens the power to dream new techno-economic futures, who...

...Manuel Galindo; Hannah Appel The majority of people incarcerated in the United States have not been convicted of any crime. Rather, they are there because they are too poor to pay their way out of jail. The financialization of the criminal legal system means that wealthy people go free while poor...

... aesthetics of persuasion , I address the question of how aesthetics is relevant to broader modalities of binding and politics of belonging—paying attention to Jacques Rancière's “distribution of the sensible.” Taking Pentecostalism as a prominent representative of global Christianity, I seek not only...

... themselves suppressed public support for public funding by touting privatization measures as significant solutions, though these represented only marginal revenue increases. The media was largely indifferent to faculty and staff protests about loss of pay and cuts to education but showed surprising sympathy...

..., or the rights of the performers. Ironically, the largest producers of child pornography in the world may now be the children themselves, who are circulating digital images of one another, sometimes casually, sometimes for pay, that are legally actionable. Justin Berry, the subject of an ethically controversial...

... pay particular attention to the dislocated spaces of the everyday because here unexpectedly new worlds emerge and our very concept of emancipation is thought anew. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Ana Esther Ceceña On the Complex Relation between Knowledges and Emancipations...

... implications? The contributors pay close attention to the nonsynchronicity and the discordance of times that constitute the present. The contributors ask how contemporary crisis can be better understood with reference to long-term and ongoing colonial and racial histories. This article functions as both...