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Editorial, Mechthild Nagel Jun 2015

Editorial, Mechthild Nagel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

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Race, Immigration Reform, And Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing The Obama Presidency, Seth N. Asumah Jun 2015

Race, Immigration Reform, And Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing The Obama Presidency, Seth N. Asumah

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In this article, I argue that the macroscopic nature and complexity of race, hegemonic masculinity, and immigration issues in the United States put President Obama in a double bind for any attempt to secure reforms—situations which produce limited options and exposure to penalties in reaching solutions.


Angela Y Davis And Assata Shakur As Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence, Mechthild Nagel Jun 2015

Angela Y Davis And Assata Shakur As Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence, Mechthild Nagel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Angela Y Davis and Assata Olugbala Shakur have many overlapping histories of struggle in the face of state repression. Both revolutionary freedom fighters were captured after spending time underground as a result of intense surveillance and being marked for outlaw status. They continue to speak out against racist and sexist injustices and global capitalism.


The Coloniality Of Language: Race, Expressivity, Power, And The Darker Side Of Modernity, Gabriela A. Veronelli Jun 2015

The Coloniality Of Language: Race, Expressivity, Power, And The Darker Side Of Modernity, Gabriela A. Veronelli

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This article presents a new framework to analyze linguistic relations of power that examines the linguistic effects of what Aníbal Quijano has theorized as “the coloniality of power.” The argument is organized in two sections. The first section introduces “the coloniality of language,” an expression the author uses to refer to the process of racialization of colonized populations as communicative agents beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing until today. This section includes an account of the language and communication paradigm being developed at the time of the Conquest, which, the author argues, contains the coloniality inside. In the second …


Race-Based Epistemologies: The Role Of Race And Dominance In Knowledge Production, Shana Almeida Jun 2015

Race-Based Epistemologies: The Role Of Race And Dominance In Knowledge Production, Shana Almeida

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Mainstream academia in the West reinscribes racial thinking by strategically reducing the theoretical contributions of racialized and Indigenous scholars to “stories.” In my analysis, I describe how this reduction reproduces the ideological, discursive and material racism in knowledge production by centering the white western scholar as the “true” knower.


“Ain’T No Real Pimps Out There No More”: Street-Involved Women’S Characterizations Of Men Who Facilitate Street-Based Sex Work, Susan Dewey, Rhett Epler Jun 2015

“Ain’T No Real Pimps Out There No More”: Street-Involved Women’S Characterizations Of Men Who Facilitate Street-Based Sex Work, Susan Dewey, Rhett Epler

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Drawing upon five years of ethnographic research with over 100 Denver, Colorado women involved in street­‐based sex work and drug use, this paper explores what the women's discursive framings of men who facilitate women's sex work activities reveal about the exclusionary social and criminal justice practices that shape their lives.


Spousal Violence, Women, And Resistance In Postsocialist China, Tiantian Zheng Jun 2015

Spousal Violence, Women, And Resistance In Postsocialist China, Tiantian Zheng

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Based on my ethnographic research of spousal violence in Dalian, China, this paper explores women’s responses, attitudes, discussions, and resolutions of practice of “wife beating” that crystalizes women’s agency and resistance in postsocialist China.


Homemakers, Communists, And Refugees: Smuggling Anti-Apartheid Refugees In Rural Lesotho In The 1960s And 1970s, John Aerni-Flessner Jun 2015

Homemakers, Communists, And Refugees: Smuggling Anti-Apartheid Refugees In Rural Lesotho In The 1960s And 1970s, John Aerni-Flessner

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This article tells the story of Maleseka Kena, a woman born in South Africa but who lived most of her adult life in rural Lesotho. It narrates how her story of helping apartheid refugees cross the border and move onward complicates understandings of what the international border, belonging, and citizenship meant for individuals living near it. By interweaving her story with larger narratives about the changing political, social, and economic climate of the southern African region, it also highlights the spaces that women had for making an impact politically despite facing structural obstacles both in the regional economy and in …


The Intricacies Of Adopting International “Norms” From The Bottom Up, Malia L. Womack Uc Berkeley Jun 2015

The Intricacies Of Adopting International “Norms” From The Bottom Up, Malia L. Womack Uc Berkeley

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This manuscript examines the socio-political climate that led San Francisco to adopt an ordinance based on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), despite the United States’ failure to ratify the treaty. The publication also investigates the successes and shortcomings of the ordinance’s materialization.


Male Sex Work And Society By Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014, Lorna Barton Glasgow Caledonian University Jun 2015

Male Sex Work And Society By Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014, Lorna Barton Glasgow Caledonian University

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Male Sex Work and Society by Victor Minichiello & John Scott, Harrington Press, 2014


Willful Subjects By Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press, 2014, Samantha A. Langsdale University Of London Jun 2015

Willful Subjects By Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press, 2014, Samantha A. Langsdale University Of London

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press, 2014


Sexuality In School: The Limits Of Education By Jen Gilbert, University Of Minnesota Press, 2014, Jessi Hitchins University Of Nebraska-Omaha Jun 2015

Sexuality In School: The Limits Of Education By Jen Gilbert, University Of Minnesota Press, 2014, Jessi Hitchins University Of Nebraska-Omaha

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education by Jen Gilbert, University of Minnesota Press, 2014