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Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Mel Stanfill
Ugly fandom is fans who are willing to destroy what they love when it doesn’t go the way they want, like trying to get a show cancelled because their favorite character was killed or responding to fan fiction they don’t like by attacking the author or the hosting website.
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia
Menika B. Dirkson
During the Great Migration (1916-1970) of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia’s police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to disseminate crime narratives laced with statistics and racial stereotypes to convince the white middle-class to resist desegregation and support tough on crime policing from 1958 to the present-day.
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Reconfiguring Refugees: The US Retreat from Responsibility-Sharing
Alise Coen
After decades of acting as a core contributor to global refugee resettlement, why did the United States dramatically retreat from refugee protection following the 2016 U.S. presidential election? Reconfiguring Refugees offers an in-depth case study illuminating a pivotal moment in refugee responsibility-sharing and migration governance.
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Vibes Up: Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn
Sabia McCoy-Torres
Making the Caribbean: Migration and Reggae from Costa Rica to Brooklyn uses a sensorial approach to ethnography to show we must rechart the Caribbean and expand it from being geographic and sociocultural phenomenon alone to sensorial and global ones that bring Limón, Costa Rica and Brooklyn, New York together as interconnected sites of Afro-Caribbean migration from the West Indies.
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