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Is Sexyy Red Minstrelsy, Or Are We Overreacting?, Malik Brizan-Reed

Capstones

This criticism piece explores the controversial female rapper Sexyy Red. It challenges negative perspectives about her persona, primarily based on respectability politics. It highlights Sexyy Red's ability to capitalize on a moment and business savviness. The article has themes of racial double standards and classism. Sexyy Red is more than the "ghetto Black girl," aesthetic. She's a mother and entrepreneur who is authentic to herself.

Promoting Cultural Belonging Through The Arts: Community Partner Snapshot Of Latino Art Midwest, Kayla Vasilko

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Kayla Vasilko just completed her Master’s degree in communication with a focus on semiotics and the impact of higher education on positive social change in the Purdue Graduate School and the PNW Department of Communication and Creative Arts. While earning her degree, she had the opportunity to complete a service-learning project to celebrate Spanish culture through the arts and work the community partner Latino Art Midwest. Latino Art Midwest works to promote understanding of the role of arts and creative expression among Midwestern Latina/o communities. Students can explore their site, “view the art, and interpret the unique qualities of Latina/o …

Ballroom: An Exploration Of Queer Survival And Self-Sufficiency, Jet Mezini

Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research

The AIDs epidemic and its disinformation alienated queer people from U.S culture. As a result, queer people, especially queer people of color, began meeting together to express their self-made culture, a series of competitions among themselves, the underground scene of “ballroom.” Ballroom reveled in self-awareness and bordered on satire, being inspired by Western standards that were unable to be applied to a queer populous. This essay will analyze these cultural norms, understanding how they served as methods of reclamation for queer people, and how ballroom evolved to reflect social progression.

Book Review: Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory Of Indigenous Cultures, Arcia Tecun

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures by Victor Montejo

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 248 pp

Arcia Tecun analyzes and interacts with Montejo’s discussions and logics, resulting in a postcolonial indigenous conversation between reviewer and book author.

Corazón De Maíz Un Tributo A Los Pueblos Mayas, Patricia López

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

English Abstract:

Corazón de Maíz gathers the stories and recipes for traditional Maya cooking in the regions of Huehuetenango, and is designed to promote the survival of the culinary system of the grand-mothers, and the food that they prepared with love for the whole family. This “culinary novel” contains myths, legends, stories of the origin of some foods, cooking tech-niques and methods. The foods prepared in the altiplano region developed from millenary traditions, the Hispanic invasion, the ravages of climate change bringing droughts and plagues that destroy life, and the various consequences and influences of migration. For the Maya, corn …

A Wīnak Perspective On Cosmovisíon Maya And Eco-Justice Education, Arcia Tecun

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

This article responds to questions of relational ethics in Indigenous mobility with a critically conscious approach to cosmovisíon Maya in Soonkahni (Salt Lake Valley). An urban and mobile Mayan positionality, identified as Wīnak, guides an analysis of complex Indigenous experiences, and possibilities found in Eco-Justice. The limits from the prevailing and dominant colonial logics of conservation and environmentalism are re-imagined through Indigenous approaches to ‘Earth Wellbeing’. The application of critically conscious cosmovisíon Maya reveals a simultaneous challenge to systems of power, and to formations of an Indigenous relational ethic that is both locally meaningful and globally relevant. This essay concludes …

Revisiting Men Of Maize: Historical Truths, Literary Distortions, And Asturias In Today’S Guatemala, Elaine Elliott

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

In 2024, a renewed appreciation for the Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias is taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of Asturias’ death. This essay examines the historical and literary context of the author’s groundbreaking novel Hombres de maíz (Men of Maize), and the book’s portrayal of indigenous Maya resistance against ladino landowners in Guatemala. Evidence indicates that Asturias obtained his views of ladino – Maya conflict from historic land conflicts in Ilom, Chajul. Asturias distorted the events, but his book inspired a generation of revolutionaries, some of whom organized and fought in the Ixil region and Ilom. …

Mixed Race Futurity Through Contemporary Archetypes: Mutants, Cyborgs And Dhampirs, Kobe Jackson

Masters Theses

Analysis of Enlightenment philosphes reveals how the contemporary archetypes, mutants, cyborgs and dhampirs may be situated as sources for understanding mixed race positionality. Arranged on a trajectory of hybrid mythology reaching from ancient times into the present day, their contemporary relevance is put into context. Through modern speculative fiction, historical mythology and the theoretical frameworks of sociology, and philosophy, two tropes are revealed to be imposed roles for mixed race people. The first one, the tragic hybrid is a term which references a character specific to the context of American colonial slavery, the tragic mulatto. By reframing the term, tragic …

Book Review: Hojas Sueltas., Emil' Keme

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Hojas sueltas. by Daniel Caño.

Quetzaltenango Guatemala. POE, 2024. 204 pp

ISBN 978-9929-732-17-9.

As an alternative to the standard book review, Maya America has reprinted the prologue to Hojas Sueltas, which was written by Emil’ Keme. Also, this year, Daniel Caño published another new book, Versos improvisados. Daniel can be reached at [email protected].

Document is in Spanish.

Maya America Vol. 6 Iss 2 - Front Matter, Maya America Editors

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Front Matter includes the covers and Introductory Note

Rules Of The State Board Of Pardons Of Florida

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Booklet: List of steps for pardon, State Board of Pardons of Florida. Florida Ind. School for Boys, Marianna. Undated.

Miscellaneous Legal Documents, Simpson Family

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Documents: Warranty Deeds, bank records, and correspondence for various members of the Simpson family. Circa 1901-1947

Record Of Copy Of The State Of Florida Vs. Joseph Jackson

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Certification of the copy record of the State of Florida vs. Joseph Jackson, signed by D. W. Parfitt, Clerk, Criminal Court, Duval County. (Associated with item H1-364) Date: March 6, 1931

List Of Old Folks Home Residents

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: List of residents at the Old Folks Home. Undated.

Letter From M. L. Kennedy To Eartha White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter from M. L. Kennedy to Eartha White concerning Mr. John Howard's admittance to the Old Folks Home. Undated.

Ninth Annual Music Festival, The National Negro Opera Foundation Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Program: The National Negro Opera Foundation Ninth Annual Music Festival, Griffith Stadium, Saturday August 27, presenting Minto Cato and Lisle Greenidge. Undated.

Incomplete Graduation Program, Unknown School And Local Advertisements, Jacksonville, Florida

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Program: Unidentified and incomplete school graduation program. Includes Jacksonville, Florida advertisements: "Jacksonville's Latest Negro Enterprise," Anderson, Tucker and Company Bankers. Charles H. Anderson Fish & Oyster Company, "The Oldest Retail Fish House in the City." Undated.

Provident Sanitary School Of Beauty Culture Business Card

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Business card for Provident Sanitary School of Beauty Culture, Madam Dona Thomas, 218 West Duval St., Jacksonville, Florida. Undated.

Nickerson's School Of Beauty Culture, Brochure

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Brochure: Nickerson's School of Beauty Culture, 1503 N. Myrtle Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida. Sophia Nickerson Starks, founder and President. Brochure gives course details and pictures of the graduating class of 1940. Undated.

Contribution Card, Florida's Welcome To Hon. Frederick Douglass

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Blank contribution card for Florida's Welcome to Honorable Frederick Douglass. Card certifies the holder contributed 25 cents towards the Douglass Reception to be held on April 4, 1889. Signed by J.H. Sherman, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee. (Gift of Dr. Daniel Schafer). Undated.

Take A Tag - Benefit Of Douglas Home

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Tag: Benefit tag for the Douglas Home. Undated.

Newsclippng, Clara White Mission Ready For Annual Outing, July 16

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News Clipping: Article regarding the annual outing of the Clara White Mission to be held at Moncrief Springs, Jacksonville, Florida. Undated.

Invitation To Clara White Mission Annual Picnic, Moncrief Springs, July 16

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Ticket invitation to the Clara White Mission Annual Picnic at Moncrief Springs, Jacksonville, Florida. Undated.

Invitation To Mrs Erma Ackins From Eartha M. M. White To Annual Picnic, Manhattan Beach, July 28

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Invitation to Mrs. Erma Ackins rom Eartha M. M. White, inviting her to the annual picnic at Manhattan Beach. Undated.

Newsclipping, The Old Folks Home. Inmates Enjoyed Picnic At Manhattan Beach.

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping: Article regarding Old Folks Home inmates at Manhattan Beach outing. Note: Mrs. Clara White mentioned in second paragraph. "Eautee" White is mentioned also. Undated.

Christmas Activities At Old Folks Home

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Handwritten note describing Christmas activities and donations at Old Folks Home. Undated.

Silas Green Show Business Card

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Charles Collier Presents the Original Silas Green From New Orleans. Johnson Rooks, Business Manager. Handwritten notes on front and reverse of card. Undated.

Facts About James Weldon Johnson, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Manuscript: Biography of James Weldon Johnson attributed to Eartha White's authorship. Undated.

James Weldon Johnson Biography, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Manuscript: Biography of James Weldon Johnson attributed to Eartha White's authorship. Undated.

James Weldon Johnson Biography, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Manuscript: Biography of James Weldon Johnson attributed to Eartha White's authorship. Undated.