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The story of his conquest of Sindh as the origins of Islam in the sub-continent reifies the idea of Muslim foreignness to the land, cultures, religions, histories of the sub-continent.

Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic enslavement and its afterlife, and drawing from Black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of examining Blackness, the author asserts a discursive and material practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines, so much so that the surveillance of Blackness has long been, and continues to be, a social and political norm.

Organized around three types of tough Jews--the defier, the gangster, and the hero--Moscowitz cites three purposes that guide A culture of Tough Jews: at its core the book reifies the figure of the vital Jew, conceives theoretical application of rhetorical regeneration as a resource for rhetorical invention, and presents a case study for postmodern critique of intercultural identity plus politics.

And by virtue of imposing those commitments upon the populace, public international law necessarily reifies the state apparatus, distancing it from the people and their transformative event" (p.

In this way, the mind reifies its narrow thoughts of self, mistaking the current thought of self, moment to moment, for the totality of one's being.