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Reclaiming the Korean War Minor: Beyond a Politics of Childhood Innocence 重新认识朝鲜战争中的未成年人：超越童真政治学

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2024.a921580

Sharon Tran

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Unpinning Madama Butterfly 解读《蝴蝶夫人

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2024.a921584

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Agents of the Settler State: Incarcerated Filipino Workers, Conjugal Migration, and Indigenous Dispossession at the Iwahig Penal Colony 定居者国家的代理人：被监禁的菲律宾工人、夫妻移民和伊瓦希格刑罚殖民地的土著剥夺行为

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2024.a921579

Karen Miller

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Minor Settler Grief: Korean Diaspora, Settler Colonialism, and the Pastoral Fantasy in Minari (2021) 未成年定居者的悲伤：散居国外的韩国人、殖民定居者和《米纳里》中的田园幻想（2021 年）

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2024.a921581

Jeong Eun Annabel We

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Conversions of Jacob Hodges: Religion, Race, and Labor in Prison Reform Literature 雅各布-霍奇斯的皈依：监狱改革文学中的宗教、种族和劳动

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2024.a921578

Caleb Smith

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Index to American Quarterly Volume 75 March 2023 to December 2023 美国季刊》第 75 卷索引 2023 年 3 月至 2023 年 12 月

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2023.a913527

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Imagining Freedom in Slavery’s Future: Iron City’s Fugitive Othertime in the US Carceral Empire-State 想象奴隶制未来的自由：铁城的逃亡者在美国胴体帝国中的异时空

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2023.a913519

Caroline H. Yang

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(Re)Mapping Worlds: An Indigenous (Studies) Perspective on the Potential for Abolitionist and Decolonial Futures (重新）描绘世界：从土著（研究）角度看废奴主义和非殖民化未来的潜力

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2023.a913524

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Citizenship Violence, Illegality, and Abolition in the Undocumemoir 非杜撰作品中的公民暴力、非法性与废除

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2023.a913521

Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera

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Middle Passages: Lessons in Racial Subjection at the Hampton Institute and Carlisle Indian Industrial School 中间通道：汉普顿学院和卡莱尔印第安工业学校的种族臣服课程

IF 0.7 4区社会学

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2023.a913518

Elizabeth C. Brown

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