Explores the forgotten first wave of American teen-girl entertainment from the late 1920s through the early 1950s. During the mid-twentieth century, American entertainment featuring teenage girls blossomed. From short stories to plays, films, comics, radio programs, and television shows, writers and other creative professionals developed a new ......
An examination of the importance of Nahua sacred bundles, emphasizing their impact on power dynamics, language, and culture in the Nahua religious tradition. The Bundle is a deep scholarly meditation on tlaquimilolli, key religious objects of Mexico's Indigenous Nahua, formerly "Aztec," people. These sacred bundles, depicted across Nahua ......
State Impunity and Maya Re-existence After the Acteal Massacre
How the Mexican state secured impunity after the 1997 Acteal Massacre in Chiapas, and how Maya survivors reimagine justice through embodied, collective practices of memory, healing, and political autonomy. In December 1997, forty-five Tsotsil Maya, most of them women and children, were killed in a state-backed paramilitary attack in Acteal, ......
State Impunity and Maya Re-existence After the Acteal Massacre
How the Mexican state secured impunity after the 1997 Acteal Massacre in Chiapas, and how Maya survivors reimagine justice through embodied, collective practices of memory, healing, and political autonomy. In December 1997, forty-five Tsotsil Maya, most of them women and children, were killed in a state-backed paramilitary attack in Acteal, ......
Long before Star Trek became synonymous with televised science fiction, a generation of space operas and anthology programs laid the groundwork for the genre's cultural legitimacy. With Before Trek, J. P. Telotte reexamines the formative decades of science fiction television, the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when both the medium and genre ......
Long before Star Trek became synonymous with televised science fiction, a generation of space operas and anthology programs laid the groundwork for the genre's cultural legitimacy. With Before Trek, J. P. Telotte reexamines the formative decades of science fiction television, the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when both the medium and genre ......
Examining how Latinx identity reimagines and connects communities through social media. The very idea of Latinidad flattens identities, subsuming diverse peoples under a single racialized framework useful for corporate and political marketing. But it is not only ethnic identity that Latinidad tends to erase. In the first-ever study of Latinx ......
Examining how Latinx identity reimagines and connects communities through social media. The very idea of Latinidad flattens identities, subsuming diverse peoples under a single racialized framework useful for corporate and political marketing. But it is not only ethnic identity that Latinidad tends to erase. In the first-ever study of Latinx ......
A deep ethnography on children who work in Lima, Peru, and a critique of the global anti-child labor effort.. Children juggling at traffic lights and selling candy from car to car are ubiquitous in Lima, Peru's capital, making Peru a hotspot for child labor reformers. While the intentions behind the anti-child labor movement are good, in practice ......
