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Banana Consciousness
The banana as a marker of former oppression and government destabilization: American advertising, retail imagination, and colonial empire.
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The Exclusion Games: Olympic Exceptionalism in Rio de Janeiro
displacement, real estate, and Rio’s “Games of Inclusion”
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An Unofficial Brief on Toxic Nationalist Metaphors and Ice Cream Cones in the Sun
street murals and unidentified brown bodies
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Ambiguous Maps and Border Shadows: Towards a Gradient Divide
The nuanced intensity of the gradient border lets us know that these contentious boundaries were more than a series of sterile strokes.
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Absence of Wires
“Your vision in disguised cell towers is our mission,” the Larson Camouflage website declares.
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