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The good Arab:Conditional inclusion and settler colonial citizenship among Palestinian citizens of Israel in Jewish Tel Aviv
Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787-1835
During the past few years, a new generation of historians have turned their attention to the influence of law, public policy, and public administration in American life in the period between 1787 and 1835. The purpose of this essay is to highlight the contributions of these scholars in the hope that such an inquiry can further the ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue on American political development between historians, political scientists, and historical sociologists
Maintaining the Environmental–Racial Order in Northern New Mexico
The environmental - racial order in northern New Mexico is maintained through a process of racial triangulation in which Anglos, Native Americans, and Hispanos are valued relative to one another along axes of environmental stewardship and victimization (Kim C J, 1999, "The racial triangulation of Asian Americans" Politics and Society 27 105 - 138). Both axes involve the juxtaposing of three long-standing images: (1) Spanish injustices to the Indians; (2) the inability of Mexicans to manage their land properly; and (3) Indians being preeminent environmental stewards. In contrast to Kim's formulation of racial triangulation, however, the axes also involve imagery that contradicts these images: the debauched, poverty-stricken Indian; and European culture as a despoiler of the environment. Also in contrast to Kim's formulation, racial triangulation can involve the creation of new identities. In the 1960s Hispano activists began claiming to be heirs to a hybrid culture that included elements of both Native American and Spanish cultures. While this claim to hybridity enabled the creation of new oppositional discourses, the reconciling of contradictory imagery by historicizing the discourses and by other means undermines the new Hispano oppositional discourses as well as Hispano identity itself Racial triangulation is thus a fluid and contested process in which identity formation and the interchange between predominant and oppositional discourses are constitutive of power relations. Contradictory imagery in the discourse facilitates the maintenance of the environmental - racial order, even as it enables subordinates to challenge their racialized positions and to effect change in the distribution of material wealth, rights, and privileges
Historicism and constructionism: rival ideas of historical change
Simon ZB. Historicism and constructionism: rival ideas of historical change. History of European Ideas. 2019;45(8):1171-1190.A seemingly unitary appeal to history might evoke today two incompatible
operations of historicization that yield contradictory results. This article
attempts to understand two co-existing senses of historicity as
conflicting ideas of historical change and rival practices of temporal
comparison: historicism and constructionism. At their respective births,
both claimed to make sense of the world and ourselves as changing
over time. Historicism, dominating nineteenth-century Western thought
and overseeing the professionalization of historical studies, advocated
an understanding of the present condition of the human world as
developing out of past conditions. Constructionism, dominating the
second half of the twentieth century, understood the present condition
as the recent invention of certain ‘historical’ environments, without prior
existence. As competing ideas of historical change, they both entail a
comparison between past and present conditions of their investigated
subjects, but their practices of temporal comparison are irreconcilable
and represent two distinct ways of historicization
Citando Mario Juruna: imaginário linguístico e a transformação da voz indígena na imprensa brasileira
Ethnicity and sexuality
This paper explores the connections between ethnicity and sexuality. Racial, ethnic, and national boundaries are also sexual boundaries. The borderlands dividing racial, ethnic, and national identities and communities constitute ethnosexual frontiers, erotic intersections that are heavily patrolled, policed, and protected, yet regularly are penetrated by individuals forging sexual links with ethnic "others." Normative heterosexuality is a central component of racial, ethnic, and nationalist ideologies; both adherence to and deviation from approved sexual identities and behaviors define and reinforce racial, ethnic, and nationalist regimes. To illustrate the ethnicity/sexuality nexus and to show the utility of revealing this intimate bond for understanding ethnic relations, I review constructionist models of ethnicity and sexuality in the social sciences and humanities, and I discuss ethnosexual boundary processes in several historical and contemporary settings: the sexual policing of nationalism, sexual aspects of US-American Indian relations, and the sexualization of the black-white color line
‘I Am Proud to Be an Indian’: The Music of Andean Musicians in Europe as an Expression of Pan-Indianism
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