Difference Incorporated – serie
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15 produkter
From Orphan to Adoptee
U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption
Av SooJin Pate
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in …
European Others
Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe
Häftad, 2011
348 kr
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European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond …
Farm Worker Futurism
Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Av Curtis Marez
Inbunden, 2016
1031 kr
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When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in …
Reorder of Things
The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Häftad, 2012
314 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of …
Represent and Destroy
Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism
Av Jodi Melamed
Häftad, 2011
347 kr
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In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist …
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Häftad, 2012
347 kr
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Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership-this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both …
Troubling the Family
The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism
Häftad, 2012
350 kr
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Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism-the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997-Habiba Ibrahim examines …
Dance That Makes You Vanish
Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Häftad, 2013
311 kr
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Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians-including a …
Humanitarian Violence
The U.S. Deployment of Diversity
Häftad, 2013
311 kr
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When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so …
Pregnant on Arrival
Making the Illegal Immigrant
Häftad, 2013
321 kr
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“State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland.” “Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy.” From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland’s mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as “illegals” …
Under Bright Lights
Gay Manila and the Global Scene
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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Gay-friendly dance clubs, upmarket bars, and party circuits-such commercial venues evoke the image of a gay globe, but what happens when they are bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay? Vividly describing this world of contradictions through the prism of …
Value of Homelessness
Managing Surplus Life in the United States
Av Craig Willse
Häftad, 2015
302 kr
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It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or …
Death Beyond Disavowal
The Impossible Politics of Difference
Häftad, 2015
304 kr
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Death beyond Disavowal utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.According to Grace Kyungwon Hong, neoliberalism is first and foremost a …
Farm Worker Futurism
Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Av Curtis Marez
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in …
Life Support
Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
Av Kalindi Vora
Häftad, 2015
282 kr
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From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies …
