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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  are possible when the other you’re "viewing" is otherwise unseeable? ...
• In Media Res
  Re: "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

  Forgetting the Dollhouse

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 — 6:07 am

  could wipe his memory of the monster he has created. I’m trying to see the “complexity” of the show’s ...
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  Re: Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

  star parents

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  Erin Meyers Oakland University

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 — 1:00 pm

  like us!).    I’m thinking of an apple juice commercial by Marcia Cross (Bree from Desperate ...
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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

  2 comments

  but how do they fit into this America of black and white?  How does the other–Asian Americans, Native ...
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  'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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  Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

  October 28, 2009

  1 comment

  Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...
• In Media Res
  Good Hair: About Us but not For Us

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  Tokumbo Bodunde Manhattan College, William Paterson University

  October 29, 2009

  1 comment

  comb through the hair, Asian female clerks in the U.S. sell it, and (reportedly) black women pay ... upwards of $1,000 for hair weave.   So when black (male) business owners complain about Asian merchants ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Sex workers' rights are human rights

  Melissa—you raise many good

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

  Tuesday, November 10, 2009 — 10:24 pm

  of South Asian and Eastern Eruopean women who were sold into prostitution and trafficked to Spain to ...
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  Video and Trafficking

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  Leshu Torchin University of St Andrews

  November 12, 2009

  2 comments

  representation. How the films circulate, and to whom, are necessary questions when considering the possibility of ... of a morality tale that speaks to anxieties over women’s mobility, and possibly, by extension, ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Sex workers' rights are human rights

  On Criminalization, Consultation and Circulation

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  Vibhuti Ramachandran New York University

  Friday, November 13, 2009 — 4:20 pm

  narrative is organized, but also to treat such interventions as heroic, without interrogating possibilities ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Video and Trafficking

  Conflating issues, identities and experiences

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  Vibhuti Ramachandran New York University

  Friday, November 13, 2009 — 9:56 pm

  victimhood. Without denying that there could possibly be something that all those subjected to trafficking may ... contexts of work that could possibly have been chosen by the women involved, or as contexts that do not ... to obliterate these possibilities from our evaluation of these situations. On the issue of ...

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