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Remapping Disability Through Contested Urban Landscapes And Embodied Performances, Gladys M. Francis
Remapping Disability Through Contested Urban Landscapes And Embodied Performances, Gladys M. Francis
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
Through the themes of disability, fear of contamination, displacement, and race, this article provokes a critical conversation on the political implications and mechanisms of socialization that form Blackness within the fields of cultural, Francophone, and postcolonial studies. An exploration of unchoreographed movements, dance, and textual representations of dance provides new forms of understanding and visibility to socially sanctioned Afro-Diasporic movements in contested urban spaces. Are also revealed the ways in which black bodies and their “alter kinetic aesthetics” are othered within racialized biologics and inscribed in politics of transfiguration. Are explored: 1) the racialized misappropriations and epidemiological implications that link …
Ferguson, Missouri: Difficult Stories, Jill E. Anderson
Ferguson, Missouri: Difficult Stories, Jill E. Anderson
Selections from the University Library Blog
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Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo
Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo
Communication Faculty Publications
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Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo
Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo
Communication Faculty Publications
This essay is an exercise in a form of looking from a distance. It is prompted by the desire to explore the connection between two stunning objects, namely, Ken Jacobs’s Capitalism: Slavery (2006), a digital animation of a stereoscopic card picturing slaves at work in a cotton field, and Nick Hooker’s 2008 digital video for Grace Jones’s song Corporate Cannibal. This is not an essay directly about Ken Jacobs and even less about Grace Jones, but rather an attempt to show how, for me, these two works belong to the same set. The set I am thinking about is …