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Emma Mandella edited the blog post Janelle Monae/Audre Lorde in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
“…we must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from the outside, but also against those oppressive values which we have been forced to take into ourselves” (Lorde, 2)
For this blog post, I p […]
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Emma Mandella commented on the post, Snead/Space is the Place, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 5 months ago
Here I am using “white culture” interchangeably with “European culture” from the Snead quote. And yes, I would say that white culture has a nature of colonization when examined from a historical perspective. I […]
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Emma Mandella edited the blog post Snead/Space is the Place in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
For this weeks post, I wanted to expand upon what I began last week about Sun Ra’s Space is the Place, which was about the depiction of white and black men in the film. However, now I would like to discuss how t […]
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Emma Mandella wrote a new blog post White Men and Power in Space is the Place in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
In Space is the Place, I noticed the idea of material/earthly desires versus Sun Ra’s “altered destiny”. Although this was shown in many different ways, it seemed especially interesting that earthy desire seeme […]
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Emma Mandella wrote a new blog post Modern Music and Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
One of my long-time favorite bands is Gorillaz. They’ve been making music since the 1990s, and the word I’ve most often used to describe them is “experimental”. They feature many different artists on their albums; […]
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Emma Mandella commented on the post, response week 3, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 6 months ago
It never even occurred to me to consider why Tolson chose to use the libretto format, so thank you for proposing that question! If I read the definition of libretto online, it says that it is the text for a […]
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Emma Mandella commented on the post, Blog Post Week 3, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 6 months ago
I really like that you stated what most of us are probably thinking- we’re not often assigned pieces by authors of color outside of this course. And also, we don’t just cover written works, but movies as well (and […]
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Emma Mandella edited the blog post Langston Hughes and Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
Afrofuturism is hard to explicitly define. Wikipedia defines it as using “…science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentrism and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique the p […]
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Emma Mandella edited the blog post Liberia’s Response to Hegel in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
When the question is “what did you find most confusing about this poem?”, I imagine most of us could come up with more than just one line. One line I was particularly confused by was “Liberia? No oil-boiled Barab […]
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Emma Mandella edited the blog post Hegel’s Hypocrisy in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
“Slavery is in and of itself injustice, for the essence of humanity is freedom; but for this man must be matured…”
Hegel’s main argument in the piece is captured here; while slavery is wrong, black people […]
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Emma Mandella joined the group American Studies 5 years, 7 months ago
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Emma Mandella joined the group Reader and Text 5 years, 7 months ago
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Emma Mandella became a registered member 5 years, 7 months ago