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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

Simone Browne

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.
Surveillance and Film

Surveillance and Film

J. Macgregor Wise

Mirzoeff and other scholars, such as Christian Parenti and Simone Browne, each argue that accountings of the slave trade, from organizational diagrams for slave ships to the rules and regulations of the US plantation, originated influential ...
The New Media of Surveillance

The New Media of Surveillance

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in r ' r r nrl n hPlii f n ' PrmnnRin r SIMONE BROWNE New technologies of surveillance and mobility regimes are turning individuals into data by digitizing body parts. The growing privatization of such security arrangements marks the ...
We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves

We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves

John Cheney-Lippold

And surveillance theorist Simone Browne has argued that this biometric objectification constructs newly minted racial truths. See Shoshana Magnet, When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (Durham, NC: Duke ...
Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora

Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora

Ben Carrington

Thanks to Simone Browne, Dan Burdsey, Tony Collins, Rinaldo Walcott, Neville Hoad, Juliet Hooker and Stephen Marshall. I appreciate the time you gave in providing close readings of the text that helped me avoid some of the egregious ...
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

Claudia Card

A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.
Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Kerry Acker

Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
The Civil War and Reconstruction

The Civil War and Reconstruction

Ray Broadus Browne

In this vivid look at the popular culture of the era, Browne and Kreiser examine how Americans coped with this cataclysmic period.
Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship Into the ...

Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship Into the ...

Ray Broadus Browne

Popular Culture Scholarship Into the Twenty-first Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne Ray Broadus Browne, Marilyn Ferris Motz. Epilogue Ronald J. Ambrosetti In September 1967, on a crisp autumn evening in northwest Ohio, while much of ...
The Mammy

The Mammy

Brendan O'Carroll

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office.
Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Charles Darwin: Voyaging

E. Janet Browne

It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography opens.
Agnes Browne

Agnes Browne

Brendan O'Carroll

Agnes Browne faces the hardships and rewards of raising seven children on her own in a 1960s working-class Dublin neighborhood
Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...

Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...

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Chapter 15 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society Mark Kremer Introduction No book embodies the postwar ideals of democratic progress more than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second ...
Sounds Australian Update

Sounds Australian Update

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Inlcrnaiionally acclaimed conductor Simone Young has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Opera Australia, succeeding Moffatt Oxenbould who will be leaving at theend of the year 2001. From 2001, Simone will divide her time ...
Simone Martini Complete Edition

Simone Martini Complete Edition

Andrew Martindale

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) whoas well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered lessmportant than Giotto and his followers.
Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...

Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...

Anne M. François

Two other essays in the collection analyze metaphors of exile in Simone Schwarz -Bart's Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979). ... Writing from Guadeloupe (2000); Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women ( 2001); ...
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Karen Vintges

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.
First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition

First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition

Simone Wright

And, according to Simone Wright, we often forget or don’t understand how to use the best tool available: our intuition, which is our “first intelligence” that can cut through the chatter to inherent wisdom.
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration

Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration

Karen C. Pinto

... Guggenheim fellowship announcement for Simone Pinet's forthcoming research and book The Task of the Cleric: Three Studies on the “Libro de Alexandre”(in progress) (http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/simone-pinet/, accessed May 22, ...
Icons of America

Icons of America

Ray Broadus Browne

Included in this examination of icons are essays by such scholars as Michael T. Marsden, Earl F. Bargainnier, Edith Mayo, Valerie Carnes, David Skaggs, Fred E. H. Schroeder, Ray Browne, and others.
Charles Darwin: The power of place

Charles Darwin: The power of place

E. Janet Browne

Traces the life of the great British scientist, describes his travels as a naturalist, and traces the development of his theories It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography opens.
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean ...

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean ...

Abigail L. Palko

See Simone A. James Alexander, Mother Imagery in ... Women's Fictions of History; Florence Ramond Jurney, Voix/es libres: Maternité et identité dans la littérature antillaise; Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander (eds.), Feminist ...
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Brendan O''Carroll

The Granny is the third book in Brendan O''Carroll''s famous ''Mrs Browne'' trilogy, the inspiration for the hugely successful TV series, Mrs Brown''s Boys .A new role for Agnes Browne - and more challenges for the family that refuses to quit ...
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography

Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography

Janet Browne

Volume 1 of a biography Janet Browne. BOBBY E was born into jane Austen's England. indeed, the Darwins could have stepped straight out of the pages of Emma, the {our girls sharply intelligent about the foibles of others, their father as ...
The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later—Looking ...

The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later—Looking ...

Whitman T. Browne, PhD

A Caribbean Story about National Tragedy, the Burden of Colonialism, and the Challenge of Change Whitman T. Browne, PhD. I lost friends and political- sparring partners including Tony Nisbett, Sonny (Rabbit) Walwyn, Sam Sweeney, Orville ...
Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise ...

Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise ...

Beth Simone Noveck

Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government.
Scott O'Dell

Scott O'Dell

Simone Payment

Scott O'Dell / by Simone Payment. p. cm.—(The library of author biographies) Includes ... From SCOTTO'DELL, by David Russell, Twayne Publishers, O 1999, Twayne Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the Gale Group. Copyright © 1993 ...
Eye on the Diamonds

Eye on the Diamonds

Terry Crawford-Browne

Terry Crawford-Browne. 11. David Kray: Hazel Crane, Queen Of Diamonds, New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2004. 12. 'Gangster On The Wing', Noseweek 128, June 2010. 13. Anthony Sampson: Mandela, HarperCollins Publishers, London,  ...

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