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On Relationality, on Blackness: A Listening Post

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This introductory essay considers the critical purchase of “relationality” in current scholarly debates in Comparative Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature. It foregrounds Blackness and/as incommensurability as they are treated in these fields' distinct and overlapping institutional locations, historical developments, and epistemic investments.

Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921

Osamah F. Khalil, America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, $36.00). Pp. 295. isbn 978 0 6749 7157 8.

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Osamah F. Khalil, America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, $36.00). Pp. 295. isbn 978 0 6749 7157 8.

Pamela E. Pennock , The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s, Justice, Power, Politics (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Pp. 328. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781469630977

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pamela E. Pennock , The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s, Justice, Power, Politics (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Pp. 328. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781469630977

Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies

Mon, 9 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies

Pornographic encounters and interpretative interventions: Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

Mon, 9 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Pornographic encounters and interpretative interventions: Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

Keyword 6

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Keyword 6

Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States

Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States

International adoption and cultural insecurity

Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

International adoption and cultural insecurity

The awesome and mundane adventures of Flor de Manilay San Francisco

Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The awesome and mundane adventures of Flor de Manilay San Francisco

Framed in Black

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I've had Nina Simone's “sinnerman” on repeat for months. The propulsive force of Simone's 1965 live version of this gospel song drives its ten-minute ferocity straight into the contemporary American zeitgeist. As she tells her audience in the lead-up to a lesser-known performance of the song, recorded in 1961, Simone learned “Sinnerman” when she was a “little bitty girl in revival meetings. It happened when my mother and lots more like her tried to save souls.” The song's judgment-day tale of redemption's refusal is told doubly, both by the sinner—“I cried rock / don't you see I need you, rock”—and by those from whom the sinner begs, if not forgiveness, then simply some measure of mercy from the divine justice to come: “Oh sinnerman, where you gonna run to?” The break in the middle of the 1965 recording strips the song down to Simone's handclaps on the second and fourth beats. All that remains is the tenuous intensity of the time neither of redemption nor of damnation but merely...

Queer Politics, Bisexual Erasure: Sexuality at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and Statistics

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Queer Politics, Bisexual Erasure: Sexuality at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and Statistics

Gesto a Tiempo de Mambo

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Gesto a Tiempo de Mambo

“Una evidencia queer: Trabajo sexual y metodologías afectivas”

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

“Una evidencia queer: Trabajo sexual y metodologías afectivas”

Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Osagie K. Obasogie's Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind (2014) makes important contributions to both to the sociology of law and to critical race studies. The book challenges “colorblind” racial ideology by showing empirically that people who are blind from birth nevertheless “see” race, grasping it as a nearly omnipresent feature of social interaction and social organization. These insights, however, do not diminish the importance of the racial body. Beyond refuting colorblindness, Obasogie's book points to a neverending tension, embedded in what we call racial formation, between the social construction of race and the corporeality of race. This tension has been present since the dawn of empire and African slavery. Obasogie's achievement of falsifying colorblindness should not lead us to neglect the importance of the racial body.

Pornographic encounters and interpretative interventions: Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

© 2016 Women & Performance Project Inc. Using the auto/biography, Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior as the primary text, this paper investigates how an embodied understanding of race and class alters our understanding of gendered experiences of violence and pleasure. It asks: what happens when the life experiences of an aging Afro-Latina porn star are positioned at the very heart of feminist investigations into the relationship between sexual experience and knowledge production? In the process, this paper reflects on how images and text function as complicated triggers for the attachments, identifications, desires, and traumas of our own corporeal embodiments and sexual histories.

Book Review: Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, by Michael Omi

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, by Michael Omi

The Philippines. Global Filipinos: Migrants' lives in the virtual village By Deirdre McKay Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. 247. Notes, Bibliography, Index.

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Philippines. Global Filipinos: Migrants' lives in the virtual village By Deirdre McKay Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. 247. Notes, Bibliography, Index.

Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina

"The Beating of Private Aguirre: A Story About West Texas During WWII

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

As a whole, the collection reveals that World War II was the turning point that gave most Mexican Americans their first experience of being truly included in American society, and it confirms that Mexican Americans of the "Greatest ...

Queering ArchivesA Roundtable Discussion

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

“Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion” provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and is itself somewhat archived within the terms of the discussion. The roundtable discussion provides a sustained critical engagement with the profile of the queer archive as a site for radical struggles over historical knowledge, offering a renewed sense of the queer archive as a pertinent site for scholarship and politics across an array of orientations and tendencies.

Reconfiguring Nation and Identity: U.S. Latina and Latin American Women's Oppositional Writings of the 1970's-1990's

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Reconfiguring Nation and Identity: U.S. Latina and Latin American Women's Oppositional Writings of the 1970's-1990's

Discursive Deployments: Mobilizing Support for Municipal and Community Wireless Networks in the U.S.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines Municipal Wireless (MW) deployments in the United States. In particular, the interest is in understanding how discourse has worked to mobilize widespread support for MW networks. We explore how local governments discursively deploy the language of social movements to create a shared understanding of the networking needs of communities. Through the process of "framing" local governments assign meaning to the MW networks in ways intended to mobilize support and demobilize opposition. The mobilizing potential of a frame varies and is dependent on its centrality and cultural resonance. We examine the framing efforts of MW networks by using a sample of Request for Proposals for community wireless networks, semi-structured interviews and local media sources. Prominent values that are central to a majority of the projects and others that are culturally specific are identified and analyzed for their mobilizing potency.

The Quality, Role and Effectiveness of the Haas BETA Program: Final Evaluation

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This report documents the findings of the Institute for the Study of Social Change’s evaluation of the quality, role, and effectiveness of the Business Economics Technology Achievement (BETA) Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. BETA’s curriculum is designed to build business skills and to assist middle school and high school students in becoming eligible and competitive for college. The program reaches out to educationally disadvantaged youth and schools in Berkeley, Oakland, West Contra Costa county and San Francisco. The program is also distinguished by its use of undergraduate and graduate MBA business students from the Haas School of Business as mentors in delivering its program services.

Guatemalan Immigration to San Francisco Bay Area

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Increasing numbers of Central Americans, primarily from El Salvador and Guatemala, began arriving in the United States in the early 1980s, fleeing brutal military repression and counterinsurgency efforts in their home countries (Hamilton and Chinchilla-Stoltz 1991, 1998; Julian 1994; Bens 1996; Burns 1988). The Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) concludes that 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, and that state forces and related paramilitary groups onslaught, from 1981 to 1983, as many as 1.5 million people were displaced internally or had to fee the country, including about 150,000 who sought refuge in Mexico (CEH 1999, 30). The Guatemalan Peace Accords in 1996 signaled an end to overt hostilities but no to bitter social tensions, political violence, stark inequality, and severe economic hardship, all of which fuel emigration pressures.

Numerous scholars have documented the factor contributing to immigration, particularly the critical connections...