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Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore Jan 2024

Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Editors' Introduction, Raj G. Chetty, Beverly Greene Jan 2024

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, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

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.


Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Social Justice Autobiography, James Jones Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, James Jones

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice autobiography on Civil rights; Muslim; social justice; racial hypocrisy; freedom


Social Justice Autobiography, Javar Hollins Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Javar Hollins

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice essay on Jim Crow South; crack epidemic; inter-racial cooperation


Imagine!, Gerard Lawless Jan 2024

Imagine!, Gerard Lawless

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay on imagination and freedom.


Her Story In Black (Matters), Kavan Garrison Jan 2024

Her Story In Black (Matters), Kavan Garrison

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Novel on US Politics; Healthcare; COVID; Families/Children of the Incarceratd; Lawyers; Mental Health; Immigration; Prison life (gangs, violence, medical care/neglect); Rehabilitation; Activism/Reform


Stockholme Syndrome, Fontaine Baker Jan 2024

Stockholme Syndrome, Fontaine Baker

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Poetry; Education; Transformation


Lost In Time, Keefus Flax Jan 2024

Lost In Time, Keefus Flax

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Prison life; Despair; Popular culture (music)


Social Justice Autobiography, Chanelle Burnett Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Chanelle Burnett

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Autobiography on: Women prisoners; Humane treatment; Social Justice; Health care; Criminal Justice; Rehabilitation; Reform; Hypocrisy


All For Nothing, Marina K. Leyba Jan 2024

All For Nothing, Marina K. Leyba

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on self-realization


Social Justice Autobiography, Lamont Kwesi Harrell Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Lamont Kwesi Harrell

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice essay on Social Justice; Afrikan lifestyle and philophy; Marcus Garvey; Umoja- unity and (Ujamaa)cooperative economies


In The Mind Of A Prisoner, Christopher Gattos Jan 2024

In The Mind Of A Prisoner, Christopher Gattos

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Law (Crime Bill, Felon Disenfranchisement, 13th Amendment, legal representation); Ku Klux Klan; Historical memory; Reform; Prison Life; Drugs (War on); Sentencing; Children of Incarcerated; BLM; Pop Culture/media; Prison Education; Rehabilitation; Forgiveness; Gun Violence; COVID 19


Soul Of One King, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Soul Of One King, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Religion; Black history; Black liberation; Reform


My Soul's Awakening, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

My Soul's Awakening, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Religion; Mental Health


Myriad's Domination, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Myriad's Domination, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Creativity; Identity; Deception; Loneliness


Perusal, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Perusal, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Religion; Self-deception


Find Me, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Find Me, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Mental health


The Bench, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

The Bench, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Solitude; Self-consciousness; Nature