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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Noticing How to Doubt in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.” Victor LaValle, Big Machine
“My job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice.” Dionne Brand
Throughout the semester, I’ve been […] -
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post How Do Doubt and Recursion Connect? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”- Victor LaValle, Big Machine
After reading Victor LaValle’s Big Machine. I’m still thinking about the recurring idea of doubt. My blog pos […] -
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post The Mutability of Language in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
In my blog post “Recursive Memory” I discuss how important it is for people to be aware of what “script” they are drawing from, using Dr. McCoy’s words. By this I meant that people should doubt the information […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Recursive Memory in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
After thinking about my previous blog posts, I realized that I unintentionally kept returning to art history. I alluded to Hopper’s and Motley’s paintings and the concept of the anchor (it’s also worth noting that […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Observation vs. Engagement in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
After discussing Suzan-Lori Parks’ Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, it was interesting to think about how art is performed and what people (those acting in the audience role) consent to when […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Doubting Doubt in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”
Thinking about cycling back and indefinite iterations, this course epigraph, what my first blog post of the semester dealt with, came […]
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Cameron Rustay wrote a new blog post Culture as Survival in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
In the R2 prompt we talked out in class, it states:
Culture, Reagon asserts, is the ‘territory’ that Black people ‘can control’ and the place where ‘so much business’ had to be conducted, namely the business […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post What Do You Mean by “Authentic”? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
Within the paratextual preface to Jupiter Hammon’s works, it mentions his familiarity with his own “ethnic past” and how a view of ancient history provides a “source of pride and identity for African Americans.” […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Something New Under the Artificial Light in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
After discussing Bernice Johnson Reagon’s article “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See,” originality’s importance to African American song actually made me think of art history. Specifically, I started thinking about […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Cycling Through Doubt in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”- Victor LaValle, Big Machine
Doubt has always been something that I have struggled with, as many people do; the fear of always making s […] -
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Churning Back to Art in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
I started the blogging project off with a blog post about artwork, particularly Steve Prince’s “Katrina’s Veil: Stand at the Gretna Bridge” and Francisco Goya’s “Third of May 1808.” I thought that I would churn b […]
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Cameron Rustay wrote a new blog post A Retroactive Lesson in Memory, Forgetting, and Waste in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
I had this idea in the beginning of the semester but never wrote a blog post about it because I forgot amid the whirlwind of a semester; a lesson of remembering and forgetting that hits close to home. Nonetheless, […]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Code noir, Casting a Shadow on People’s Memories in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
After Dr. DeFrantz’s discussion on how Code noir influenced some dance forms, I started thinking about the lasting effect slave codes left on society. Reiterating what Dr. DeFrantz touched on in the discussion, the codes specifically targeted enslaved African peoples in the French colonies in the eighteenth century. It placed restrictions on e…
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Memory and the Futility of Containment on a Smaller Scale in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
In class we discussed how Zone One deals with containment and how it can often be futile. The one main example of containment and its futility that I saw in the novel connected with one of our course concepts, memory. Mark Spitz mentions how, in this post-apocalyptic landscape, it’s necessary to only worry about the immediate future, otherwise, y…[Read more]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post A Close to Home Violence Against New Orleans in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
As this NPR article suggests, there were many key players during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, one of the most well known being former New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin. During and following the aftermath of the storm, Nagin was vocal about getting help for the citizens he was responsible for and didn’t shy away from showing his frustrations. One s…[Read more]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Racial Tension: Beyond the Surface in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
In my earlier blog post, The Boundary Between Light and Darkness, I commented on the light-dark interplay that Steve Prince’s “Katrina’s Veil: Stand at the Gretna Bridge” and Francisco Goya’s “Third of May 1808” utilize. Namely, in Prince’s piece, I saw the use of only black and white as a commentary on the racial tension present in America, n…[Read more]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Ostracized and Undervalued in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
Roach in our class reading of “Echoes in the Bones” discussed how performers are thrown into the roles of effigies, often becoming “alternatively ostracized and overvalued.” After bringing up celebrity names such as Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks, etc., I started thinking about public figures that throw themselves into the roles of…[Read more]
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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post The Boundary Between Light and Darkness in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
One important aspect I found when reading Solnit and Snedeker’s Unfathomable City was the apparent racial tension in the city after Katrina. There was an obvious boundary that law enforcement, government officials, and the media put between African American citizens and white citizens resulting in murder, hysteria, and moral ambiguity in a time w…[Read more]
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Cameron Rustay joined the group American Studies 6 years, 6 months ago
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As Abby pointed out in a comment on my post, our two individual posts connect really well, which I find interesting. People question my studies and are kind of confused by a biology and English minor, but I never […] 7 years, 7 months ago
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