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Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around ...
Tim Soutphommasane +4 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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Blindness And Sight In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
The Civil Rights era has been an era of struggle for the African American in the Unites states. Thus, many writers devoted their writing to reflect the racism and discrimination that many have suffered from, among them is Ralph Ellison.
زينة كمال ابراهيم
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Age and ethnic differences in volumetric breast density in new zealand women: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Breast cancer incidence differs by ethnicity in New Zealand (NZ) with Māori (the indigenous people) women having the highest rates followed by Pakeha (people primarily of British/European descent), Pacific and Asian women, who experience the lowest rates.
Lis Ellison-Loschmann +5 more
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National Report of Teachers' Experiences With School Justifications for Book Censorship
ABSTRACT This study shares the findings from a large national survey of 4096 secondary English teachers to better understand their experiences with censors' justifications for book bannings. This study focuses on the 1793 teachers who said that their school, district, or library censored select books.
Ricki Ginsberg, Kyungae Chae
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From El to Hell: On Stage in the Urban Underworld
Images of the New York subway and its precursors, the Elevated train and the horse-car, hold a special place in American culture. While the descent into the subway station and the ride along endless miles of subterranean tracks are almost inevitably ...
William Chapman SHARPE
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Author Phil Pastras opens his biographical study of legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton with an epigram from poet Dylan Thomas-"Oh make me a mask"-and with that signal, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West takes us on the road with trickster ...
Kathy J. Ogren
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization
Abstract Since the mid‐2000s, the use‐of‐force continuum—a global standard for providing law enforcement with guidelines on the proportionate use of force—has been central in Turkish police training and reporting practices. Liberal police accountability tools, like the use‐of‐force continuum, rely on standardization to prevent police violence.
Hayal Akarsu
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Utopian Rhythms: Ralph Ellison and the Jazz Aesthetic
This essay explores the utopian notion of freedom at work in Ralph Ellison’s major writings and, following the cues laid out in his essays on literature and music, traces the process of the realization of freedom to a recognition of the rhythmic nature ...
Megan Rust Mustain
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