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… an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, … onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite …

… their contemporary legacies, in order to understand how religious resistance to the Enlightenment ideas was set … Her book manuscript, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World … publication.  The book focuses on the role of slavery, the slave trade, and soldiers of African descent during the …

… This chapter makes a case for why sociologists should (re)read Edward Said, paying specific attention to his … Drawing on Said and other postcolonial theorists, we propose a threefold typology of potential violence … the “Global War on Terror,” paying close attention to how synchronic instances of apprehension (more or less …

… tries to seek alternative solutions or negotiations. We hold that justice and the subject of law should not be considered in terms of legal juxtaposition or … inside and outside the Court, is crucial for understanding how law is informed by, and confronted to actual relations of …

… school reader containing Enlightenment-era speeches and a “how-to” introduction to oratory. On Sunday afternoons, when … circuit, fellow abolitionists sometimes told him he should try to sound more “like a slave” while speaking in public. “So he wrote,” Stepto said. …

… to engage in or launch the important conversation about how the field of genocide studies, as practice if not in … of those most directly in the shadow of victimization.  We need to do so with empathy, but with awareness that … normatively corroded of police forces do.  Their presence should serve as a dire warning, for the emergence of …

… fill, I can scarcely believe my own identity. I was not a slave to intemperance, but a slave to my fellow-men. From … has been an interesting subject to me. We have a large class of free people of color in America; … sum to the treasury to take care of their own poor. But we have had difficulties in struggling out of our …

… rule in the broader historical context of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. …

…   Matthew S. Hopper examines the global dimensions of the slave trade from East Africa to Arabia in the late 19th and early …

… “Comparing Archival Perspectives: The Transatlantic Slave Trade from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century”   …