The Black Map Project: A Black People’S Epistemology Of Healing,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
The Black Map Project: A Black People’S Epistemology Of Healing, Britton Williams
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This work is a love letter to Mary Turner and her descendants, by which I mean all Black people, that lifts recipes and roadmaps of Black creative healing and liberatory praxes. It is a freedom dream (Kelley, 2002) that dares to (re)imagine mental health care by holding Black healing and liberation centrally in mind. I do not seek to prove through this work but rather to provoke [thought|action|repair]. In this work, I unsettle prescribed notions of therapy that have long dismissed/erased/ignored the needs and [therapeutic] practices of Black people. The Black MAP Project resists epistemologies of ignorance (Mills, 2022)—born in …
‘The Power Of Three Will Set Us Free': Witchy Womanist Readings Of Toni Morrison’S Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa’S It Begins With Tears, And Migdalia Cruz’S The Have-Little And Miriam’S Flowers,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
‘The Power Of Three Will Set Us Free': Witchy Womanist Readings Of Toni Morrison’S Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa’S It Begins With Tears, And Migdalia Cruz’S The Have-Little And Miriam’S Flowers, Anamaría Flores
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Witchy womanism is a critical methodology for reading, teaching, and writing about literature in order to generate emancipatory knowledge, activate Queer, Black, and Indigenous consciousnesses, contribute to 21st century women’s, Black, and Indigenous liberation movements, and foster (re)connections to ancestral rituals and knowledge. Born at the intersections of Black Studies, BIPOC Queer and Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies, English, Hip-Hop Studies and Latinx Studies, “‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free’: Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison's Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa's It Begins With Tears, and Migdalia Cruz's The Have-Little and Miriam's Flowers" is a multidisciplinary …
Simone's Reflections,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Simone's Reflections, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
No abstract provided.
Billie's Reflections,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Billie's Reflections, Billie Wynn, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
No abstract provided.
Taira's Reflections,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
No abstract provided.
Sagian's Reflections,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Sagian's Reflections, Sagian Shaw, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
No abstract provided.
Rise,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Rise, Ning Yen, Omar Abdelhamid, Erin Xi, Nicole Xu
Group Presentations
No abstract provided.
Raul's Reflections,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Raul's Reflections, Raul Falcon, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
No abstract provided.
Fatma's Promise,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Fatma's Promise, Husna Abubakar, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Clarissa Guzman
Group Presentations
No abstract provided.
Skeleton Man,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Skeleton Man, Billie Wynn, Sagian Shaw, Taira Schurman
Group Presentations
No abstract provided.
Wendigo,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Editors' Introduction,
2024
St. John's University - New York
Editors' Introduction, Raj G. Chetty, Beverly Greene
Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
No abstract provided.
Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality,
2024
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Enslavement, colonization, and the systems that uphold racial injustice were and still are a series of new, unfathomable, and challenging experiences that prompt individuals within the diaspora to seek orientation. How does a human cope with centuries of attempts at the systematic destruction of their humanity, culture, and identity? How can they reclaim that identity, especially when so much of it seems lost? I address these questions by utilizing texts from the expansive body of work regarding ethnographic-historical-religious studies on Afro-spiritual practices to better analyze instances in literature in the ongoing practice of diasporic orientation. In this project, I argue …
Motion Capture For Orature | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Motion Capture For Orature | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
This winter session course invites students to explore motion capture through the lens of traditional oral storytelling practices. Students will actively identify the unique and distinguishing features of orature, and leverage their own cultural backgrounds, personal perspectives, and idiosyncrasies to create motion capture data that can be used in crafting an immersive digital retelling of a folktale.
Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
Songa: A Mocap Database,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
No abstract provided.
Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
