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  • 1955-1959
  • Durham : Duke University Press  (6)
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  • 1
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 1478090030 , 9781478090038
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [Open access version]
    Series Statement: A theory in forms book
    Parallel Title: Online version Piot, Charles, author Fixer
    DDC: 304.8/7306681
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    Keywords: Africains ; Togolais ; Togolais ; Visas ; Visas ; African diaspora ; Emigration and immigration law ; Emigration and immigration ; Togolese ; Visas ; Visas ; African diaspora ; Emigration and immigration law ; Togolese Migrations 21st century ; History ; Togolese ; Visas Government policy ; Visas ; Visum ; Losverfahren ; USA ; Togo ; Batema, Kodjo Nicolas / (Visa broker) ; 2000-2099 ; Togo / Emigration and immigration ; Togo / Émigration et immigration ; Togo ; United States ; Electronic books ; History ; Togo ; USA ; Visum ; Losverfahren
    Abstract: In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview, to the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In 'The Fixer' Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a "fixer"-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togolese, as well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life
    Description / Table of Contents: Border practice -- The interview -- Kinship by other means -- Trading futures -- Embassy indiscretions -- Protest -- Prison -- America, here we come -- Lomé 2018
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  • 2
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822371861
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (256 pages)
    DDC: 306.76/62092
    Keywords: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT. ; Gay liberation movement History ; United States ; Gay liberation movement History ; Gay liberation movement ; Gay men Biography ; United States ; Gay men United States ; Gay men Biography ; Gay men Biography
    Abstract: For many, the death of a parent marks a low point in their personal lives. For Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies-the death of his mother was just the beginning of what became a twelve-year period filled with despair, drug addiction, and debauchery. From his cocaine use, massive heart attack, and immersion into New York's gay hustler scene to experiencing near-suicidal depression and attending rehab, The Rest of It is the previously untold and revealing story of how Duberman managed to survive his turbulent personal life while still playing leading roles in the gay community and the academy.Despite the hardships, Duberman managed to be incredibly productive: he wrote his biography of Paul Robeson, rededicated himself to teaching, wrote plays, and coedited the prize-winning Hidden from History. His exploration of new paths of scholarship culminated in his founding of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, thereby inaugurating a new academic discipline. At the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic Duberman increased his political activism, and in these pages he also describes the tensions between the New Left and gay organizers, as well as the profound homophobia that created the conditions for queer radical activism. Filled with gossip, featuring cameo appearances by luminaries such as Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Vivian Gornick, Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millett, and Néstor Almendros, among many others, and most importantly, written with an unflinching and fearless honesty, The Rest of It provides scathing insights into a troubling decade of both personal and political history. It is a stimulating look into a key period of Duberman's life, which until now had been too painful to share
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  • 3
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 1478090731 , 9781478090731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [Open access version]
    Series Statement: A Camera Obscura book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als DuCille, Ann Technicolored
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    Keywords: Émissions télévisées ; Noirs américains à la télévision ; Race à la télévision ; Racisme à la télévision ; African Americans on television ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Race on television ; Racism on television ; Television programs ; African Americans on television ; Race on television ; Racism on television ; Television programs ; Rassismus ; Fernsehsendung ; Schwarze ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Schwarze ; Fernsehsendung ; Rassismus
    Abstract: From early sitcoms such as "I Love Lucy" to contemporary prime-time dramas like "Scandal" and "How to Get Away with Murder," African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In this book, black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, the author traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, this book offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: black and white and technicolored: channeling the TV life -- What's in a game?: quiz shows and the "prism of race" -- "Those thrilling days of yesteryear": stigmatic blackness and the rise of technicolored TV -- The Shirley Temple of my familiar : take two -- Interracial loving : sexlessness in the suburbs of the 1960s -- "A credit to my race": acting Black and Black acting from Julia to Scandal -- A clear and present absence: Perry Mason and the case of the missing "minorities" -- "Soaploitation": getting away with murder in primetime -- The Punch and Judge Judy shows: really real TV and the dangers of a day in court -- The autumn of his discontent: Bill Cosby, fatherhood, and the politics of palatability -- The "thug default": why racial representation still matters -- Epilogue: final spin: "that's not my food"
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  • 4
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822372646 , 0822372649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Refiguring American music
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 781.2/308996073
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    Keywords: Anderson, Marian 1897-1993 ; Holiday, Billie 1915-1959 ; Scott, Jimmy 1925-2014 ; Vocaloid (Computer file) ; African Americans Music ; Social aspects ; Music and race United States ; Voice culture Social aspects ; United States ; Tone color (Music) Social aspects ; United States ; Music Social aspects ; United States ; Singing Social aspects ; United States ; Zuhören ; Afroamerikanische Musik ; Klang ; Electronic books ; Afroamerikanische Musik ; Klang ; Zuhören
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race -- Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre -- Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity -- Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed -- Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday -- Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician
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  • 5
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822373216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (222 pages)
    Parallel Title: Murphy, Michelle, 1969 - The economization of life
    Parallel Title: Print version Murphy, Michelle The Economization of Life
    DDC: 304.666
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    Keywords: Fertilität ; Wert des Menschenlebens ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Familienplanung ; USA ; Bangladesch ; Family planning - Economic aspects ; United States Population policy ; Bangladesh Population policy ; Family planning Economic aspects ; Family policy Economic aspects ; Fertility, Human Political aspects ; Fertility, Human Social aspects ; Familienplanung ; Bangladesch ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Fertilität ; USA ; Wert des Menschenlebens ; Electronic books ; Bangladesch ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Familienplanung ; Family planning ; Family policy ; Fertility, Human ; Fertilität ; USA ; Wert des Menschenlebens ; Bangladesh ; United States ; Bangladesh Population policy ; United States Population policy ; Weltbevölkerung ; Demographie
    Abstract: Michelle Murphy examines the ways in which efforts at population control since World War II have tied reproduction to neoliberal capitalism, showing how data collection practices have been used to quantify the value of a human life in terms of its ability to improve the nation-state's gross domestic product.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bottles and Curves -- Arc I | Phantasmagrams of Population and Economy -- 01. Economy as Atmosphere -- 02. Demographic Transitions -- 03. Averted Birth -- 04. Dreaming Technoscience -- Arc II | Reproducing Infrastructures -- 05. Infrastructures of Counting and Affect -- 06. Continuous Incitement -- 07. Experimental Exuberance -- 08. Dying, Not Dying, Not Being Born -- 09. Experimental Otherwise -- Arc III | Investable Life -- 10. Invest in a Girl -- 11. Exhausting Data -- 12. Unaligned Feeling -- Coda: Distributed Reproduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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  • 6
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    Durham : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN Foundation
    ISBN: 9780822374381 , 0822361256 , 0822374382 , 9780822361060 , 9780822361251 , 082236106X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 452 pages)
    Series Statement: Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 Collection
    Series Statement: Duke University Press
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Price, David H., 1960 - Cold War anthropology
    DDC: 301.097309/04
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    Keywords: United States ; Anthropologists Political activity 20th century ; History ; Military intelligence History 20th century ; Science and state History 20th century ; Cold War ; Anthropology Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Anthropologie ; Militär ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; United States History 1945- ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In a wide-ranging and in-depth study of the recent history of anthropology, David Price offers a provocative account of the ways anthropology has been influenced by U.S. imperial projects around the world, and by CIA funding in particular. DUAL USE ANTHROPOLOGY is the third in Price's trilogy on the history of the discipline of anthropology and its tangled relationship with the American military complex. He argues that anthropologists' interactions with Cold War military and intelligence agencies shaped mid-century American anthropology and that governmental and private funding of anthropological research programs connected witting and unwitting anthropologists with research of interest to military and intelligence agencies. Price gives careful accounts of CIA interactions with the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the development of post-war area studies programs, and new governmental funding programs articulated with Cold War projects. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, American anthropologists became increasingly critical of anthropologists' collaborations with military and intelligence agencies, particularly when these interactions contributed to counterinsurgency projects. Awareness of these uses of anthropology led to several public clashes within the AAA, and to the development of the Association's first ethics code. Price compares this history of anthropological knowledge being used by military and intelligence agencies during the Cold War to post-9/11 projects
    Abstract: Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes
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