... was an enormous disappointment. It failed to bring about the desired result—American recognition. Blandon Aaron Boyer Jean Pierre Cape Haitian Coffee Copelain Daniel Cotton Land ownership Migration to Haiti Plaisance Haiti Port au Prince Reed Abel Return of Haitian migrants Samana Haiti U S...

... norm and its constitutive elements, including representation, recognition, and protection. It links these efforts to the hegemonic power of liberal feminism, in which there is a global campaign to “add gender and stir.” This phrase is a critique that such efforts to add women to the agenda do...

...This chapter discusses the idea of “Smart CCTV”—the integration of automated facial recognition with video surveillance. Recognizing a business opportunity, entrepreneurs attempting to commercialize facial recognition technology introduced the idea as a potential solution to the problems...

...This chapter examines how social uses of facial recognition and other biometrics are being defined at the level of individual users, and how the securitization of identity is incorporated at the level of individual practice. While biometric identification systems are being envisioned and designed...

... of the chapter discusses concepts connected to citizenship, including agency, recognition, and norms. For instance, when citizenship is viewed as performatively produced relationalities among families, friends, and strangers, legal recognition is transformed as it is practiced. Citizenship Posttranssexuality...

...The introduction begins with a vignette of a conflict in caregiving, tracing out the backgrounds of the patient and the care worker and their reflections about this conflict. The remainder of introduction then lays out the theoretical conceptualizations of recognition, reciprocity, and care...

...This chapter emphasizes the strategies used by mixed-race stepfamilies led by lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer parents or by racially minoritized stepparents to make themselves intelligible as family to others. Some stepparents capitalized on others’ (mis)recognition of their family members...

... in citywide festivals, there are consistent signs of increased cultural citizenship and belonging for LGBTQ people in the city. Being a valued contribution to citywide festivals does indeed fill part of the recognition gap described by Lamont in the introduction. During festivals, LGBTQ people are often...

... somebodiness care care work fluidity Malatino Hil masculinity recognition social identity knowledge knowability ableism ambiguity Butler Judith desire nobodiness pedagogy policy racism transgression childhood future futurity parents Rahily Elizabeth resistance science class classism...

... types of solutions: one set of proposals facilitates donor-conceived families finding each other; and a second concerns legal links, or the possibility of more formal legal recognition, between families through, for example, expansion of coverage of family and medical leave laws. These new forms...

... disability as part of the diversity of human beings. With time, Alison learns that her daughter, Maybelle, need not attain cultural definitions of normal and that Maybelle’s valued personhood demands broader societal recognition. abortion Biffle Piepmeier Maybelle MB Bioethical Inquiry Garland Thomson...

... racism segregation White supremacy inclusive nondomination nondomination Restorative justice Justice Relational personhood I and Thou mutual recognition domination Ubuntu Restorative justice practices aim to repair harms and respond to the effects of trauma by cultivating healthy and durable...

...This chapter describes the prevalence and importance of relative and fictive kin caregivers in the United States. It uses a case study to highlight some of the challenges faced by these nonparental primary caregivers who serve as social parents and who often lack legal rights and recognition...

...In this chapter, I examine if African American women benefitted from their support of the Obama presidency by using traditional markers of group interests, especially as a key constituency group supporting candidate Obama. I explore the Obama presidency, asking beyond the politics of recognition...

...This introduction justifies why urban festivals in the cities of the South and Southwest are an important site for analyzing the cultural citizenship, belonging, and recognition of LGBTQ people. It argues that LGBTQ involvement in urban festivals fills a recognition gap and is part of creating...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of facial recognition technology (FRT). In the post 9/11 context, FRT emerged as an existing, reliable, and high-tech solution to the most pressing problem facing the United States. Indeed, new forms of human-machine integration promise to make...

...This chapter examines how automated facial recognition and related technologies were envisioned and designed to serve a set of institutional priorities during the period of political-economic neoliberalization in the United States. In the United States the effort to program computers to identify...

...This chapter explores the development of automated facial expression analysis, the effort to program computers to recognize facial expressions as they form on and move across people's faces. While facial recognition technology treats the face as a “blank somatic surface” to be differentiated from...

...This book has explored a crucial aspect of the transnational adoption process: the moment of recognition and reaffirmation of ties between children and their birth families. It has shown how transnational adoptees who return to South Korea are given the means—by both adoptive and birth countries...

... break from the traditional models of female selflessness. Yet even as these men seek recognition and support for their own self-making from women who are equally ambitious and independent, they cannot completely repudiate the maternal model, longing at the same time for "positive," "selfless" girls who...