A variety of competing descriptions of ‘whiteness’ making up racist retreats to Romantic imaginaries of Anglo-Saxon identity go at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had imagined himself
Category: Social History
Nor On The Soles of Her Shoes? The King Of Infinite Space (Roger Green)
The tendency toward universalizing concepts has its legacy within the foundation of Religious Studies as a discipline, which, though little known outside the field, has recently interrogated its underwritten Protestant
One Divides Into Two – The French Connection Of Mao, May, And Today (Jonathan Fardy)
“One divides into two.” This enigmatic phrase once functioned as the ideological lynchpin of the Cultural Revolution. Maoism redrew the profile of Marxist theory. The dialectic, understood as an ideological
Panoptical Time and Colonial Framing (Roger Green)
Anne McClintock’s prescient study, Imperial Leather (1995), concluded: Within the United States, with the vanishing of international communism as a rationale for militarism, new enemies will be found: the drug war, international terrorism,
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 2 (Giulia Battaglia)
The following article is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment appears here. Sundararaj Baskaran’s assumption that traditional popular songs and dramas did not much affect south
Performative Film Practices In Tamil Politics, Part 1 (Giulia Battaglia)
The following is the first of a two-part series. Author’s note: This piece has been written as part of a bibliographic research about documentary filmmaking in South India conducted in
The Politics Of Dialect In Indian Regionalism (Shivani Bhasin)
A dialect is defined as a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a region or social group. Yet what exactly helps maintain a strict boundary between a
How “Democratic” Is – And Has Been – The Muslim Brotherhood? – Part 2 (Kara Roberts)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. The increasing civil unrest in Egypt in 2011, instigated by police brutality, unemployment,
How “Democratic” Is – And Has Been – The Muslim Brotherhood? – Part 1 (Kara Roberts)
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. Within the past century, Egypt has experienced extreme fluctuations within its society and has been characterized by outside domination, conflicting