...Leticia Veloso This essay is based on extensive fieldwork with marginalized children and other working children in Rio de Janeiro, conducted in two favelas and on the streets of four different neighborhoods. Specifically, my research focused on how particular children try to earn a living...

...Chris Bongie 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Chris Bongie A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery...

...Anthony DeCurtis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Anthony DeCurtis The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock n Roll, and Don DeLillo s Great Jones Street Perhaps the best-known passage in Don DeLillo s Great Jones Street, not one of his more highly regarded novels, occurs...

...Charles S. Davis Where Main Street Meets the River . By Carter Hodding . New York : Rinehart and Company , 1953 . Pp. 339 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 160 The South Atlantic Quarterly Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan as a part of the relevant facts...

...Richard D. Altick Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 AVERAGE CITIZEN IN GRUB STREET: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS RICHARD D. ALTICK There is, in each man s heart, Chinese writing A secret script, a cryptic language; The strange ideographs of the spirit, Scribbled...

... and an emergent “politics of the street.” The limits of this form of politics, I argue, give real urgency to the felt need for a new type of party form. My exploration of this question has recourse to a little-known text by Louis Althusser on the innovations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, in particular...

...James T. Fisher Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 James T. Fisher Clearing the Streets of the Catholic Lost Generation uring the summer of 1993, I attended the wedding of a close relative at the Chapel of the Choirs in St. Peter s Basilica, Vatican City. It was my first trip...

...Anthony DeCurtis Anthony DeCurtis What the Streets Mean: An Interview with Martin Scorsese When I grew up in Greenwich Village in the fifties and early sixties, the neighborhood was not the bohemian theme park that it is today. Of course, there was a strong, long-standing and genuine bohemian...

...Jim Hosney; Jacquelyn Wollman; Jesse Ward Engdahl Jim Hosney, Jacquelyn Wollman, and Jesse Ward Engdahl The Passion of St. Charles: Martin Scorsese s Mean Streets Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true...

...Yates McKee Among the most prominent offshoots of Occupy Wall Street is Strike Debt, an organization that aims to build a nationwide movement of debtors determined to act against the creditor class of Wall Street. Artists and cultural producers of all sorts have been crucially involved...

...,” the gang rape that occurred during the festival of San Fermín in 2016: once again, the woman who was raped is put on trial, and not the rapists. With the slogans, “I believe you” and “Listen, sister, here is your pack,” the call goes viral, filling streets, plazas, and social media. This viral call...

... for the center in U.S. politics by pushing from the outside. This process will lead to major changes that nevertheless will disappoint the Left, as in the recent cases of health care and Wall Street reform. Hayden maintains that Obama will be the most progressive president of his political lifetime, but that his...

...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

...-of-control inflation and corruption in the late 1980s led to workers’ participation in the 1989 democratic movement, the full-fledged neoliberal reforms implemented by the post-1989 authoritarian state in the 1990s urged many laid-off workers in state enterprises to take to the streets. In the wake...

... on the streets. It argues that an engaged academic should not only preach to the converted but, more importantly, should account for those who feel disempowered or estranged, indifferent to “politics in action,” alienated for political reasons, or opposed to the protests. A G A I N S T the D A Y Jamil Mouawad...

...Amna A. Akbar Today’s left movements are rejecting neoliberalism and pivoting toward mass politics through an array of strategies and tactics. Struggles for reforms—or nonreformist reforms—loom large. This essay examines Occupy Wall Street, defund the police, and relations between the Green New...

... themselves in the last decade, and an increasingly precarious middle class took over the streets in demonstrations that piggybacked on the subject of the World Cup to protest some of the most iniquitous conditions in contemporary Brazilian society (some of them aggravated by preparation for the mega-event...

...Marina Sitrin Since the end of 2010, millions of people around the globe have been taking to the streets in cities, towns, and villages—assembling in plazas and occupying parks, buildings, homes, and schools. This new wave of movement is both revolutionary in the day-to-day sense of the word...