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Decentering whiteness in AIDS memory: Indigent rhetorical criticism and the dead of Hart Island
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For over 150 years, Hart Island in New York City has been a burial ground for the city's indigent and "unclaimed,” over a million dead who because of race, immigration, poverty, and disease were buAbstract:
For over 150 years, Hart Island in New York City has been a burial ground for the city’s indigent and “unclaimed,” over a million dead who because of race, immigration, poverty, and disease were buread more
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Queer migration politics: activist rhetoric and coalitional possibilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the coalition between queer migration politics and activism and migration politics in the US public sphere has been discussed and discussed thoroughly, and the coalition can be seen as a kind of social justice.
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Mourning and Militancy
Richard Seymour,Michael D. Yates +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors recognize that the history of the left is a history of defeats, and that the left can adapt creatively to the coming defeats, which can prepare the ground for success.
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
TL;DR: Fannie Lou Hamer's affinity for the spoken word, her self-perception as a prophet, and the lasting impact her use of symbols had upon those who experienced her discourse suggest that a sustained rh...
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
TL;DR: The Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism as mentioned in this paper has been studied in the context of queerness as Horizon, a vision of the future in which the future is in the present.
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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
TL;DR: The Archive and the Repertoire as discussed by the authors explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity.
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The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics
TL;DR: Cohen as mentioned in this paper explores the social, political and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community and analyzes how other crosscutting issues - of class, gender, and sexuality - challenge accepted ideas of who belongs in the community.
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The rhetoric of "family values": Scapegoating, utopia, and the privatization of social responsibility
TL;DR: This article performed an ideographic analysis of the bipartisan political deployment of the slogan during the 1992 Presidential election campaign and found that talk functioned during that campaign to scapegoat Black men and poor Americans for social problems.
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Queer migration politics: activist rhetoric and coalitional possibilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the coalition between queer migration politics and activism and migration politics in the US public sphere has been discussed and discussed thoroughly, and the coalition can be seen as a kind of social justice.