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Showdown in Desire the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans / by Arend, Orissa

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Landscape Of Desire by Gordon, Greg, 1963-

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Landscape Of Desire / by Gordon, Greg, 1963-

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Landscape Of Desire / by Gordon, Greg, 1963-

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Cemeteries of ambivalent desire unearthing deep South narratives from a Texas graveyard / by Hernández, Marie Theresa, 1952-

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From moon goddesses to virgins the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire / by Sigal, Peter Herman, 1964-

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Coyote nation sexuality, race, and conquest in modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 / by Mitchell, Pablo

“…Worlds of desire.…”
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Remembering Victoria a tragic Nahuat love story / by Taggart, James M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy -- Talcuaco -- Fratricide -- "Rabbit and coyote" -- Human goodness -- Nahueh -- Love as desire -- Wife as sister -- Conclusions.…”
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Americans in the treasure house : travel to Porfirian Mexico and the cultural politics of empire / by Ruiz, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Usage -- Introduction: Keep Close to a Kicking Horse -- Desire among the Ruins: Constructing Mexico in American Travel Discourse -- The Greatest and Wisest Despot of Modern Times : Porfirio Diaz, American Travelers, and the Politics of Logical Paternalism -- American Travel Writing and the Problem of Indian Difference --The Most Promising Element in Mexican Society : Idealized Mestizaje and the Eradication of Indian Difference -- Reversals of Fortune: Revolutionary Veracruz and Porfirian Nostalgia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Performing kinship narrative, gender, and the intimacies of power in the Andes / by Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: relative intimacies, storied lives -- Sullk'ata contexts : reflections on identities and localities -- Circulation of care : a primer on Sullk'ata relatedness -- Narrating sorrow, performing relatedness : a story told in conversation -- Storied silences : adolescent desires, gendered agency, and the practice of stealing women -- Reframing the married couple : affect and exchange in three parts -- "Now my daughter is alone" : violence and the ambiguities of affinity -- Conclusion: Reflections on the dialogical production of relatedness -- Appendix A. chapter 5 narrative transcriptions in Quechua and in English -- Appendix b. …”
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Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / by Moore, Leonard N. (Leonard Nathaniel)

Table of Contents: “…: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans -- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression -- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism -- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings -- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform -- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board -- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference -- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.…”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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