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Why Democracy Will Be Hard to Do
Ellen Messer-Davidow

Alma Mater: College, Kinship, and the Pursuit of Diversity
Catherine Prendergast and Nancy Abelmann

Where Is West Asia in Asian America? “Asia” and the Politics
of Space in Asian America
Sridevi Menon

Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and the Politics of Depressing Speech
Sarah Pinto

Literature or Revolution: Writing Robust in a Postcolonial Metropolis
Rudolf Mrázek

Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault
Julian Reid