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The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]
Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBased on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns, ease entry […]
Patricia Clough: “War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?”
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert, J.W. Wiley, 1995) and The […]