You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America. By Andrea S. Boyles. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. xv+216. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (6) ◽  
pp. 1495-1497
Author(s):  
Jeannine Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Ties ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Community Disorder ◽  
The Revolution

Violent Imaginaries and the Beginnings of a New State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Oliver Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ritual Violence ◽  
Chinese Individual ◽  
The Revolution

U.S. consular reports on Mexican anti-Chinese activities document the uncoordinated, synchronous anti-Chinese activities that took place as a part of the revolutionary battlefield. This chapter traces the social relations that gave rise to cooperative violence, or grotesque assemblies, in the context of the revolution. Events like the massacre at Torreón in 1911 illustrate the emergence of new social ties based upon Porfian discontent and doing harm to Chinese. Individual cases of tactical assassinations and ritual violence against the Chinese bodies further illuminate the absence of mestizo nationalism as motivation. The chapter details reports of ritualized violence that present a battlefield where Chinese immigrants are under constant attack. These modes of popular violence against Chinese shifted the political identity of assailants, no matter their allegiance or affiliation, to patriotic revolutionaries. Peasants and Indians did not threaten the bourgeois military leaders of the revolution when they expressed antichinismo.

Disability History, Power, and Rethinking the Idea of “the Other”

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Kudlick
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Disability History ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Revolution

I'd like to begin with an anecdote. when i was an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a leader from an African country came to speak on the impact of a recent revolution in his homeland. The speech was inspired and exciting and provoked many questions. It being Santa Cruz in the late 1970s, a woman stood up in the back of the room and asked, “After the revolution, what will your country do to help our lesbian sisters?” The speaker looked perplexed and turned to a translator, who explained that lesbians were women who made love to one another like men and women did. The speaker expressed shock until a flash of recognition came over him as he explained, “Well, we will cure that with medicine!”

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