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  • 14 Apr 2025
    Patriann Smith

    Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth

    In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura, the then most streamed female Francophone pop artist in the world, found herself “at the center of France’s culture wars.” A single-parent immigrant mother […]

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  • 30 Sep 2013

    Into the Intro: Shakespeare Beyond English

    Shakespeare may be England's playwright, but his plays are a household name all over the world. In Shakespeare Beyond English, go behind the scenes of the Globe to Globe Festival where each of Shakespeare's plays was performed by a different international theatre company to explore what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language.

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  • 25 Aug 2008

    The Final Count

    A nice showing by both indeed. US came #1 by total – 110 medals in all, with China leading in Golds. Great Britain showed an impressive #4 overall, beating out the rest of Europe. The home office should be proud.

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  • 19 Aug 2008

    The Bitter Rivalry

    August 19, 2008 No, the other one. Everyone is busy counting the US-China contest for medals. Rightly so; it’s close. Here in the New York office, we’re watching a different set of numbers: Now, I’m all for rooting for the home office, but that would be unfair; we have branches around the world! After this […]

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