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Kittens in the Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, and the Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez’s \u3cem\u3eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2010
The search for an ever-elusive home is a thread that runs throughout much literature by authors who have immigrated to the United States. Dominican authors are particularly susceptible to this search for a home because “for many Dominicans, home is ...
Carter, Natalie
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Graman Revisited Once Again: A Reanalysis of the Late Holocene Legacy Faunal Assemblage From GB4 Rockshelter, New South Wales

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The archaeological site Graman B4 provided one of the first records of substantial dietary change in ancient Australian Aboriginal society. Initial examination of the faunal remains from this site suggested that Late Holocene hunters reduced their focus on high‐ranked kangaroos to increasingly rely on arboreal possums; and that these ...
Loukas George Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
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Can sexual selection drive female life histories? A comparative study on Galliform birds [PDF]

, 2007
Sexual selection is an important driver of many of the most spectacular morphological traits that we find in the animal kingdom (for example see Andersson, 1994). As such, sexual selection is most often emphasized as
A. Ø. MOOERS, Andersson M., Bennett P.M., Bininda-Emonds O.R.P., Blackburn T.M., Blackburn T.M., Cornishbowden A., Cramp S., Crowe T.M., Crowe T.M., del Hoyo J., Dunning J.B., E. J. A. CUNNINGHAM, Ellsworth D.L., Gutierrez R.J., Gutierrez R.J., Harvey P.H., Heath D.D., Holman H.J., Hoyt D.F., J. J. VERSPOOR, Lack D., Lack D., Maddison W.P., Midford P.E., Munechika I., N. KOLM, Nylander J.A.A., R. W. STEIN, Roff D.A., Roff D.A., Rohwer F.C., Rohwer F.C., Sibley C.G., Sikes D.S., Stearns S.C., Swofford D.L., Wen L.-Y., Zhan X.-J., Zink R.M.   +39 more
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How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions),
Carolina Pradier, Lucía Céspedes, Vincent Larivière   +2 more
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Tracing the Socioeconomic, the Cultural and the Political in Latin American Postcolonial Theory [PDF]

, 2013
It is far from obvious which theories are the most promising ones for the task of critically addressing interdependent inequalities in Latin America as well as global forms of inequality that affect Latin American countries. In this working paper, I look
Kerner, Ina
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Gothicised Henri Christophe: The Tocsin in Colonial Aftermath

, 2023
Luo Anyi
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Switzerland and ‘Colonialism without Colonies’

Interventions, 2015
In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European colonial power constellation.
Purtschert Patricia, Falk Francesca, Lüthi Barbara   +2 more
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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The Darker Side of the Renaissance

Universitas Humanística, 2009
The Darker Side of the Renaissance focuses on coloniality rather than on Europe’s witch and alchemist hunt. Today I would dare to say also that this expression refers us to the historical foundation of coloniality. At the same time, coloniality statement
Walter Mignolo
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Cosmopolitanism [PDF]

This paper was presented as part of Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror joint symposium, by the MnM Centre in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies, at the University of South ...
Barry Hindess
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