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  Pioneering a "new" America? Complicating otherness with Levi's and Walt Whitman

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  Ethan Caldwell Northwestern University

  October 28, 2009

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  Pioneering a "new" America? Complicating otherness with Levi's and Walt Whitman America Levis Otherness Curator's Note Levi’s is painting a new America, one pair of jeans and monochromatic commercial at a time.    In its latest adverti ...
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  A question of audience

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  Kimberly Alecia Singletary Northwestern University

  Thursday, October 29, 2009 — 5:50 pm

  accustomed [at least theoretically] to black/white pairings). That blackness is juxtaposed against whiteness ...
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  Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  November 02, 2009

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  identification begins in opening frames of the credit sequence.     ...
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  Dexter as the new "everyman"

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  Jules Odendahl-James Duke University

  Monday, November 2, 2009 — 2:45 pm

  pure, and joyfully (at least for a time) explicit. Jules Odendahl-James, MFA/PhD ...
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  Questioning Perception

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  Beth Johnson Keele University, UK

  Monday, November 2, 2009 — 8:02 pm

  our own notion of vision (and judgement) as unreliable or, at least questionable.  The copious images ...
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  Identification and Ritual

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  Douglas L. Howard Suffolk County Community College

  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 — 1:02 am

  something mundane and commonplace about it.  We cannot help but see something familiar in at least some part ... aligned with Dexter before the narrative proper begins (and the blood slides and garbage bags come out). ...
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  We're in on the secret!

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  David Schmid University at Buffalo

  Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 4:42 pm

  identification with the protagonist begins with the credits, I wanted to add that this identification also has an ...
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  Dexter: Early Cuts: A Slice of (Comic) Life

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  Douglas L. Howard Suffolk County Community College

  November 05, 2009

  2 comments

  specifically sees how his narrative fits within the superhero tradition: “tragic beginnings, secret identities, ...
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  Ubiquitous video, local humiliation, networked dignity

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  Sameer Padania WITNESS

  November 09, 2009

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  to the governments tolerating or sponsoring these abuses, or at the very least, to undermine ...
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  She is Me: Gender, Immigration, and Economics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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  Sarah Van Deusen Phillips Center for Research Libraries--Global Resources Network

  November 10, 2009

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  She is Me: Gender, Immigration, and Economics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Ciudad Juarez Feminicide immigration Curator's Note Public discourse in the U.S. about Mexican immigration rarely moves beyond a discussion of how it affects economics on our side ...

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