Micol Seigel
Biographic Data
| ID | 641825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micol Seigel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micol |
| FAMILY NAME | Seigel |
| SIGNATURE | SEIGEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Anti-Violence Work: Rise Magazine’s Resistance to Family Policing
From selling away the children of the enslaved to Native American “boarding schools” to separating migrant families at the border, family policing has been a tool in the arsenal of US colonial practice. This commentary examines the role of a particular media cluster in resisting a contemporary iteration of that tradition, the removal of Black, brown and working families’ children through “child welfare” or foster care systems. The cluster begins …
Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Based on a 2016 gathering in Rio de Janeiro, this edited volume focuses on the concept of lusotropicalism, the idea of Portugal's tolerance for racial mixture that supposedly made its colonies places of exceptional biological innovation and social harmony. The essays explore lusotropicalism's geopolitical and intellectual contexts, placing both the philosophy and its best-known champion, Gilberto Freyre, in broad interrelations: to academics from…
Places without Police
This reflection explores two loose social formations in contemporary Brazil that offer potentially inspiring political models. One consists of queer, Afro-descended activists invoking quilombos to curate welcoming spaces for community engagement and support. The other is the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, a prisoner organization that at times has evaded state violence as effectively as some quilombos did in their day. This uneven set illumi…
K athleen B elew . Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Always Already Military: Police, Public Safety, and State Violence
To explore the concepts of military and civilian spheres, this essay engages a US federal body created to train foreign police, the Office of Public Safety (1962–74). It follows the justification, rise, and termination of this agency, tracing the labor its champions and employees expended to fix the categories military and civilian even as they moved easily back and forth across official civilian–military divides. It argues that the categories of…
Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power
This volume explores the panic that is a central affective register of our current international order. Fears of Somali pirates, "Gypsy" kidnappers, African warlords, Ebola, "Mexican meth," pimps, coyotes, gangs, climate refugees and more, structure the dark side of a metropolitan unconscious. These are terrors over things that (might) cross borders, threatening the sanctity of territoriality and capital. Inspired by scholarship challenging panic…
Critical Prison Studies: Review of a Field
Critical Prison Studies:Review of a Field Micol Seigel (bio) Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. By Heather Ann Thompson. New York: Pantheon, 2016. xvii + 724 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. By Dan Berger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 424 pp. $34.25 (cloth). $27.95 (paper). The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. By …
Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police
Violence work: Policing and Power
Present ad hoc outcries about police excesses such as shootings of young black men on the streets and mass incarceration miss the point about the nature and role of the police, argues the author. Coining her own counter-category, 'violence work', she shows how the police carry out violence work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state power. In a considered argument taking in the history of colonial policing, the deve…
The dilemma of ‘racial profiling’: An abolitionist police history
While the conquest of the world by the concept of ‘racial profiling’ was a major victory for activists, real victory for racial justice at the hands of the police was foreclosed, for the notion is a Trojan Horse. Snuck inside this term developed for radical purposes are distinctly conservative propositions. This paper analyzes the ways the individualizing implications of the concept of racial profiling mask the depth and reach of the state’s comm…
Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony - by Beattie, Peter M
Objects of Police History
Nelson Rockefeller in Latin America: Global Currents of US Prison Growth
Nelson Rockefeller is a key piece of the puzzle that is the explosion of the US prison population in the last forty years, thanks both to his drug policies of 1973 and his response to the Attica prison rebellion two years previously, which set in motion a series of changes in prison practice. This essay argues that understandings of Rockefeller’s attitudes about crime and pun-ishment, and US prison growth in general, would be enhanced by paying a…
Marc A. Hertzman. Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
The “newness” of this book consists in its placing samba in relation to the state. Marc A. Hertzman traces the nascent form as it enters patent offices and engages auditors, censors, courts, and politicians. He considers police persecution of early players, the regulation of performance and publication, and conflict among musicians over intellectual property rights. The work is adorned with figures: payments, royalties, fines, dues, salaries, pri…
Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
The editors of this excellent new volume invite scholars of Latin America and the Caribbean into the emergent field of sound studies. Sound is not so much an object of study, this book implies, as an opportunity to deepen the texture of historical analysis in an impressive number of ways. In their definition of the topic, the editors include “sound-scapes, music, noise, and silence” (p. x), a breadth all the more imperative given (they point out)…
The Spatial Politics of Radical Change, an Introduction
Author(s): Seigel, Micol; Frazier, Lessie Jo; Sartorius, David | Abstract: Introduction to the JTAS Special Forum entitled "Revolutions and Heterotopias," edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius
Black in Latin America
Journal Article Black in Latin America Get access Black in Latin America. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2011. xii, 259 pp. $26.95.) Micol Seigel Micol Seigel Indiana UniversityBloomington, Indiana [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jas169 Published…
Disciplinary Divides: New Work on Race in Latin America
Disciplinary DividesNew Work on Race in Latin America Micol Seigel (bio) Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. By Stanley R. Bailey. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Pp. 293. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. By Arturo Escobar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 435. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indi…
Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Alon…
Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic
In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and she demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities…
A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History
In this brave and necessary volume, Thomas Bender grapples with one of the most Herculean of tasks involved in internationalizing national histories: translating the theoretical sophistication, political charge, and detailed knowledge of specialists into synthetic treatments for a general audience. He brings to this task unmatched resources: not only his own scholarly expertise and experience teaching U.S. history but also several years directing…
Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn
World History's Narrative Problem
Asking Latin Americanists to think about their region in the context of world history provokes an anxious sort of tallying. Does Latin America receive adequate attention in world history courses and textbooks? Within that query lies a justified suspicion: world history as taught in the United States does often relegate Latin America to abbreviated sections and asides, particularly in pre-columbian and postcolonial eras.1 This is not a simple over…
Sabina das Laranjas: Gênero, Raça E Nação Na Trajetória De Um Símbolo Popular, 1889-1930
Este trabalho parte de uma passeata realizada em 1889 por estudantes de medicina em favor de uma quitandeira desalojada de seu posto de venda, passando a discutir as maneiras pelas quais o evento foi tematizado ao longo da Primeira República. Com isto, pretende-se lançar luz sobre os meandros das políticas cotidianas raciais e de gênero no período, bem como a relação deste processo com a negociação da identidade nacional
Sabina's Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1930
Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn
Violence work: Policing and Power
Present ad hoc outcries about police excesses such as shootings of young black men on the streets and mass incarceration miss the point about the nature and role of the police, argues the author. Coining her own counter-category, 'violence work', she shows how the police carry out violence work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state power. In a considered argument taking in the history of colonial policing, the deve…
A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History
In this brave and necessary volume, Thomas Bender grapples with one of the most Herculean of tasks involved in internationalizing national histories: translating the theoretical sophistication, political charge, and detailed knowledge of specialists into synthetic treatments for a general audience. He brings to this task unmatched resources: not only his own scholarly expertise and experience teaching U.S. history but also several years directing…
Objects of Police History
Always Already Military: Police, Public Safety, and State Violence
To explore the concepts of military and civilian spheres, this essay engages a US federal body created to train foreign police, the Office of Public Safety (1962–74). It follows the justification, rise, and termination of this agency, tracing the labor its champions and employees expended to fix the categories military and civilian even as they moved easily back and forth across official civilian–military divides. It argues that the categories of…
World History's Narrative Problem
Asking Latin Americanists to think about their region in the context of world history provokes an anxious sort of tallying. Does Latin America receive adequate attention in world history courses and textbooks? Within that query lies a justified suspicion: world history as taught in the United States does often relegate Latin America to abbreviated sections and asides, particularly in pre-columbian and postcolonial eras.1 This is not a simple over…
Sabina's Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1930
Places without Police
This reflection explores two loose social formations in contemporary Brazil that offer potentially inspiring political models. One consists of queer, Afro-descended activists invoking quilombos to curate welcoming spaces for community engagement and support. The other is the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, a prisoner organization that at times has evaded state violence as effectively as some quilombos did in their day. This uneven set illumi…
Nelson Rockefeller in Latin America: Global Currents of US Prison Growth
Nelson Rockefeller is a key piece of the puzzle that is the explosion of the US prison population in the last forty years, thanks both to his drug policies of 1973 and his response to the Attica prison rebellion two years previously, which set in motion a series of changes in prison practice. This essay argues that understandings of Rockefeller’s attitudes about crime and pun-ishment, and US prison growth in general, would be enhanced by paying a…
The Spatial Politics of Radical Change, an Introduction
Author(s): Seigel, Micol; Frazier, Lessie Jo; Sartorius, David | Abstract: Introduction to the JTAS Special Forum entitled "Revolutions and Heterotopias," edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius
Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic
In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and she demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities…
Sabina das Laranjas: Gênero, Raça E Nação Na Trajetória De Um Símbolo Popular, 1889-1930
Este trabalho parte de uma passeata realizada em 1889 por estudantes de medicina em favor de uma quitandeira desalojada de seu posto de venda, passando a discutir as maneiras pelas quais o evento foi tematizado ao longo da Primeira República. Com isto, pretende-se lançar luz sobre os meandros das políticas cotidianas raciais e de gênero no período, bem como a relação deste processo com a negociação da identidade nacional
Cocoliche's Romp: Fun with Nationalism at Argentina's Carnival
In the early 1900s, during a period of massive European immigration, amid a rising tide of restrictions against workers, unions, and anarchists, as well as the violent marginalization of indigenous and Afro-Argentines, Carnival was the arena for negotiating still-fluid national identity-boundaries
Sabina das Laranjas: Gênero, Raça E Nação Na Trajetória De Um Símbolo Popular, 1889-1930
Este trabalho parte de uma passeata realizada em 1889 por estudantes de medicina em favor de uma quitandeira desalojada de seu posto de venda, passando a discutir as maneiras pelas quais o evento foi tematizado ao longo da Primeira República. Com isto, pretende-se lançar luz sobre os meandros das políticas cotidianas raciais e de gênero no período, bem como a relação deste processo com a negociação da identidade nacional
Sabina's Oranges: The Colours of Cultural Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1930
World History's Narrative Problem
Asking Latin Americanists to think about their region in the context of world history provokes an anxious sort of tallying. Does Latin America receive adequate attention in world history courses and textbooks? Within that query lies a justified suspicion: world history as taught in the United States does often relegate Latin America to abbreviated sections and asides, particularly in pre-columbian and postcolonial eras.1 This is not a simple over…
Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn
A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History
In this brave and necessary volume, Thomas Bender grapples with one of the most Herculean of tasks involved in internationalizing national histories: translating the theoretical sophistication, political charge, and detailed knowledge of specialists into synthetic treatments for a general audience. He brings to this task unmatched resources: not only his own scholarly expertise and experience teaching U.S. history but also several years directing…
Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Alon…
Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic
In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and she demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities…
Disciplinary Divides: New Work on Race in Latin America
Disciplinary DividesNew Work on Race in Latin America Micol Seigel (bio) Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. By Stanley R. Bailey. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Pp. 293. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. By Arturo Escobar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 435. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indi…
The Spatial Politics of Radical Change, an Introduction
Author(s): Seigel, Micol; Frazier, Lessie Jo; Sartorius, David | Abstract: Introduction to the JTAS Special Forum entitled "Revolutions and Heterotopias," edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius
Black in Latin America
Journal Article Black in Latin America Get access Black in Latin America. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2011. xii, 259 pp. $26.95.) Micol Seigel Micol Seigel Indiana UniversityBloomington, Indiana [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jas169 Published…
Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
The editors of this excellent new volume invite scholars of Latin America and the Caribbean into the emergent field of sound studies. Sound is not so much an object of study, this book implies, as an opportunity to deepen the texture of historical analysis in an impressive number of ways. In their definition of the topic, the editors include “sound-scapes, music, noise, and silence” (p. x), a breadth all the more imperative given (they point out)…
Marc A. Hertzman. Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
The “newness” of this book consists in its placing samba in relation to the state. Marc A. Hertzman traces the nascent form as it enters patent offices and engages auditors, censors, courts, and politicians. He considers police persecution of early players, the regulation of performance and publication, and conflict among musicians over intellectual property rights. The work is adorned with figures: payments, royalties, fines, dues, salaries, pri…
Objects of Police History
Nelson Rockefeller in Latin America: Global Currents of US Prison Growth
Nelson Rockefeller is a key piece of the puzzle that is the explosion of the US prison population in the last forty years, thanks both to his drug policies of 1973 and his response to the Attica prison rebellion two years previously, which set in motion a series of changes in prison practice. This essay argues that understandings of Rockefeller’s attitudes about crime and pun-ishment, and US prison growth in general, would be enhanced by paying a…
The dilemma of ‘racial profiling’: An abolitionist police history
While the conquest of the world by the concept of ‘racial profiling’ was a major victory for activists, real victory for racial justice at the hands of the police was foreclosed, for the notion is a Trojan Horse. Snuck inside this term developed for radical purposes are distinctly conservative propositions. This paper analyzes the ways the individualizing implications of the concept of racial profiling mask the depth and reach of the state’s comm…
Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony - by Beattie, Peter M
Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power
This volume explores the panic that is a central affective register of our current international order. Fears of Somali pirates, "Gypsy" kidnappers, African warlords, Ebola, "Mexican meth," pimps, coyotes, gangs, climate refugees and more, structure the dark side of a metropolitan unconscious. These are terrors over things that (might) cross borders, threatening the sanctity of territoriality and capital. Inspired by scholarship challenging panic…
Critical Prison Studies: Review of a Field
Critical Prison Studies:Review of a Field Micol Seigel (bio) Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. By Heather Ann Thompson. New York: Pantheon, 2016. xvii + 724 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. By Dan Berger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 424 pp. $34.25 (cloth). $27.95 (paper). The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. By …
Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police
Violence work: Policing and Power
Present ad hoc outcries about police excesses such as shootings of young black men on the streets and mass incarceration miss the point about the nature and role of the police, argues the author. Coining her own counter-category, 'violence work', she shows how the police carry out violence work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state power. In a considered argument taking in the history of colonial policing, the deve…
K athleen B elew . Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Always Already Military: Police, Public Safety, and State Violence
To explore the concepts of military and civilian spheres, this essay engages a US federal body created to train foreign police, the Office of Public Safety (1962–74). It follows the justification, rise, and termination of this agency, tracing the labor its champions and employees expended to fix the categories military and civilian even as they moved easily back and forth across official civilian–military divides. It argues that the categories of…
Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Based on a 2016 gathering in Rio de Janeiro, this edited volume focuses on the concept of lusotropicalism, the idea of Portugal's tolerance for racial mixture that supposedly made its colonies places of exceptional biological innovation and social harmony. The essays explore lusotropicalism's geopolitical and intellectual contexts, placing both the philosophy and its best-known champion, Gilberto Freyre, in broad interrelations: to academics from…
Places without Police
This reflection explores two loose social formations in contemporary Brazil that offer potentially inspiring political models. One consists of queer, Afro-descended activists invoking quilombos to curate welcoming spaces for community engagement and support. The other is the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, a prisoner organization that at times has evaded state violence as effectively as some quilombos did in their day. This uneven set illumi…
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