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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac010

Nicole Morris Johnson

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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus 《犹太黑帮:芝加哥犹太黑帮的历史》乔·克劳斯

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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab050

Sean Martin

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Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion 暴力、仪式与时尚:运动中的黑人酷儿女权主义实践

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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-19 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac004

L. L. Forsgren

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Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues 时空殖民主义:阿拉斯加原住民与亚洲人的纠缠。Juliana Hu Pegues

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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-15 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac011

Charlton R.

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Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo 土地起义:土著故事力量和拉丁土著的叛乱视野。Simón文图拉·特鲁希略

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-15 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac006

F. M. Duran

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Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors 种族与抵抗的修辞。杰弗里·b·弗格森。George B. Hutchinson后记。由Werner Sollors编辑并作序

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-15 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac007

Keyser C.

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When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction 当黑人的生命真正重要:托妮·莫里森小说中通过非洲散居的治疗仪式颠覆医疗种族主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac001

M. Cutter

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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-23 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac002

Amanda Ellis

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MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab048

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