Samira Kawash
Biographic Data
| ID | 206843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samira Kawash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samira |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawash |
| SIGNATURE | KAWASH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New Directions in Motherhood Studies
This article surveys scholarship on motherhood and mothering published over the past decade. Academic scholars and writer-activists have written about mothers and mothering in a diversity of genres and a with broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Work on motherhood is wide-ranging and fragmented, but taken as a whole, this work simultaneously insists on the particularity and specificity of motherhood while at the same time rejec…
The Candy Prophylactic
Haunted Houses, Sinking Ships
IN MOST CONSIDERATIONS OF THE COLOR LINE, THE GOVERNING METAPHOR IS blood: the color line is understood to figure racial distinction in terms of some biological vision of heritage and ancestry. But the metaphor of the color line itself is not biological, but spatial. This raises the question, what kind of line is it? We might wonder what it would mean to take seriously the metaphor of the color line from a spatial perspective, that is, to conside…
Safe House
Dislocating the Color Line
The Homeless Body
Research Article| May 01 1998 The Homeless Body Samira Kawash Samira Kawash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 319–339. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-319 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samira Kawash; The Homeles…
Dislocating the Color Line
Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be becoming an increasingly bitter and seemingly irreparable chasm between black and white. This book confronts this contemporary problem by shifting the focus…
Or, Being on Line
or, Being on Line A Reply to Timothy Luke, “Digital Beings & Virtual Times” Samira Kawash (bio) “So there I was on line, when this kid started pushing me from behind, practically knocked me down...” For a moment after overhearing this fragment of conversation, I was extremely disoriented, for if the speaker had been doing what I thought she had been doing, how could someone have pushed her or knocked her down? Then it hit me: not “on line,” as in…
The Homeless Body
Research Article| May 01 1998 The Homeless Body Samira Kawash Samira Kawash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 319–339. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-319 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samira Kawash; The Homeles…
New Directions in Motherhood Studies
This article surveys scholarship on motherhood and mothering published over the past decade. Academic scholars and writer-activists have written about mothers and mothering in a diversity of genres and a with broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Work on motherhood is wide-ranging and fragmented, but taken as a whole, this work simultaneously insists on the particularity and specificity of motherhood while at the same time rejec…
The Candy Prophylactic
Haunted Houses, Sinking Ships
IN MOST CONSIDERATIONS OF THE COLOR LINE, THE GOVERNING METAPHOR IS blood: the color line is understood to figure racial distinction in terms of some biological vision of heritage and ancestry. But the metaphor of the color line itself is not biological, but spatial. This raises the question, what kind of line is it? We might wonder what it would mean to take seriously the metaphor of the color line from a spatial perspective, that is, to conside…
Safe House
Dislocating the Color Line
Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be becoming an increasingly bitter and seemingly irreparable chasm between black and white. This book confronts this contemporary problem by shifting the focus…
Or, Being on Line
or, Being on Line A Reply to Timothy Luke, “Digital Beings & Virtual Times” Samira Kawash (bio) “So there I was on line, when this kid started pushing me from behind, practically knocked me down...” For a moment after overhearing this fragment of conversation, I was extremely disoriented, for if the speaker had been doing what I thought she had been doing, how could someone have pushed her or knocked her down? Then it hit me: not “on line,” as in…
Dislocating the Color Line
The Homeless Body
Research Article| May 01 1998 The Homeless Body Samira Kawash Samira Kawash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 319–339. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-319 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samira Kawash; The Homeles…
Safe House
Haunted Houses, Sinking Ships
IN MOST CONSIDERATIONS OF THE COLOR LINE, THE GOVERNING METAPHOR IS blood: the color line is understood to figure racial distinction in terms of some biological vision of heritage and ancestry. But the metaphor of the color line itself is not biological, but spatial. This raises the question, what kind of line is it? We might wonder what it would mean to take seriously the metaphor of the color line from a spatial perspective, that is, to conside…
The Candy Prophylactic
New Directions in Motherhood Studies
This article surveys scholarship on motherhood and mothering published over the past decade. Academic scholars and writer-activists have written about mothers and mothering in a diversity of genres and a with broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Work on motherhood is wide-ranging and fragmented, but taken as a whole, this work simultaneously insists on the particularity and specificity of motherhood while at the same time rejec…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Color line (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)