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“We need not be ashamed of our own economic profit motive”: Britain, Latin America, and the Alliance for Progress, 1959-63 (2014)
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This article traces British policy discussions over their position in Latin America between 1959 and 1963. In particular, it looks at the way British officials interacted with the John F. Kennedy administration's flagship Alliance for Progress and ex... Read More about “We need not be ashamed of our own economic profit motive”: Britain, Latin America, and the Alliance for Progress, 1959-63.
Wilful blindness or blissful ignorance? The United States and the successful denucelarization of Iraq (2014)
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This article examines the successful denuclearization of Iraq by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the early 1990s and the apparent failure of the US Intelligence Community (IC) to rethink its assessments of Saddam’s desire for nuclear... Read More about Wilful blindness or blissful ignorance? The United States and the successful denucelarization of Iraq.
'Full spectrum dominance': Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy 2001-2008 (2014)
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This article examines the evolution of US irregular warfare (IW) doctrine and practice from 2001 onwards. It argues that, after 9/11, top-tier civilian policymakers in the US Department of Defense (DoD) and across the US government developed a height... Read More about 'Full spectrum dominance': Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy 2001-2008.
“Quiet Americans in India”: the CIA and the politics of intelligence in Cold War South Asia (2014)
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In February 1967, officials from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were horrified when the American west-coast magazine, Ramparts, exposed the U.S. intelligence organization’s longstanding financial relationships with a number of international ed... Read More about “Quiet Americans in India”: the CIA and the politics of intelligence in Cold War South Asia.
"The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow" (2014)
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This article examines the 2009 deluxe illustrated edition of Lawrence Hill’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize– and Canada Reads–winning novel The Book of Negroes, originally published in 2007. It relates the story of Aminata, a West African girl kidnapped... Read More about "The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow".
The New Left wasn't so new (2013)
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Examination of relationship of Old Left to New Left in U.S. political history and validity of Old Left and New Left as concepts.
Remembering slavery on screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936) (2013)
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This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar ci... Read More about Remembering slavery on screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936).
Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture (2013)
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This article examines the visual culture of the twenty-first century antislavery movement, arguing that it adapts four main icons of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionism for its contemporary campaigns against global slavery and human tra... Read More about Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture.
Cinematic “pas de deux”: the dialogue between Maya Deren's experimental filmmaking and Talley Beatty's black ballet dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) (2013)
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A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) is a collaborative enterprise between avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and African American ballet dancer Talley Beatty. Study is significant in experimental film history – it was one of three films by Deren... Read More about Cinematic “pas de deux”: the dialogue between Maya Deren's experimental filmmaking and Talley Beatty's black ballet dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945).
Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction (2013)
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This short introduction provides a brief overview of the collection, by addressing the main historiographical and theoretical concerns that unite the individual contributions and by placing the essays in comparative, inter-American and interdisciplin... Read More about Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction.
Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2012)
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This article points to previously undetected evidence demonstrating that Herbert Hill, labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from the 1950s to the 1970s, informed for the Federal Bureau of Investigat... Read More about Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids” (2012)
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This essay intervenes in conversations about mid-nineteenth-century authorship and print culture by distinguishing between the economy of paper and the economy of print. He argues that critical treatments of Melville’s work, and particularly “The Par... Read More about The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids”.
"Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature (2012)
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That parent-child relationships should play a significant role within South Asian American literature is perhaps no surprise, since this is crucial material for any writer. But the particular forms they so often take – a dysfunctional mother-daughter... Read More about "Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature.
“Frank Lloyd Oop”: microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the nineties (2011)
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If the early development of the computing industry in America was marked by a preoccupation with hardware, as companies like UNIVAC, DEC, and IBM filled the nation’s corporate and government offices with mainframes, then a similar preoccupation has... Read More about “Frank Lloyd Oop”: microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the nineties.
The pragmatic face of the covert idealist: the role of Allen Dulles in US policy discussions on Latin America, 1953–61 (2011)
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Assessments of the CIA’s role in Latin America during the 1950s have tended to focus predominantly on the twin case-studies of Guatemala and Cuba. Consequently, the Agency’s role – and, more broadly, that of its head Allen Dulles – has come to be see... Read More about The pragmatic face of the covert idealist: the role of Allen Dulles in US policy discussions on Latin America, 1953–61.
Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness (2011)
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Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the most critically and commercially successful dancers of the twentieth century. She established and ran the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the earliest self-supporting predominantly black dance company and o... Read More about Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness.
Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (2011)
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This essay examines how Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine shifts engagement with the details of the material world consistently onto the axis of temporality and how, in so doing, it fashions a theory of periodization in which historical and social tren... Read More about Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine.