English @ SUNY Geneseo | Cameron Rustay | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cdr5/activity/ Activity feed for Cameron Rustay. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 898780d3d62682901e7fbb8571dd0e47 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Noticing How to Doubt in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12839/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:00:39 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 c5ed5a687e18941fdaddc3e037641cfe Cameron Rustay edited the blog post How Do Doubt and Recursion Connect? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12727/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:58:33 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 89824923be7f9e4fcaf65e1a81703588 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post The Mutability of Language in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12714/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:22:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f06dd5400a9a60d4973bcaa32809dc03 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Recursive Memory in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12691/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:20:58 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e8e56cab3ea2488ac3afe05a52fb0975 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Observation vs. Engagement in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12654/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 03:05:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 05531cc02c3d419d4053110a9950786f Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Doubting Doubt in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12511/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 01:44:13 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 cc7ceeda3dafdd3858f79596bd7ffd32 Cameron Rustay wrote a new blog post Culture as Survival in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12450/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:37:56 -0500 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  […]

]]> 0 aab919893514d980f6c1b813f1860d82 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post What Do You Mean by "Authentic"? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12363/ Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:46:32 -0500 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.” […]

]]> 0 4089ad2b078af3edd2224cc0efb108bf Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Something New Under the Artificial Light in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12330/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:31:42 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 c3b77124b0a9e6bd360e667e32337337 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Cycling Through Doubt in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12209/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:36:46 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 112967ff37b9f78dddacf57b2810117e Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Churning Back to Art in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10212/ Thu, 03 May 2018 03:29:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 af5b537795265421ee489208dd22375c Cameron Rustay wrote a new blog post A Retroactive Lesson in Memory, Forgetting, and Waste in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10181/ Tue, 01 May 2018 17:36:39 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 f9e71f17e67563c648acb88c535cc654 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Code noir, Casting a Shadow on People's Memories in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10042/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:37:35 -0500 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa691b8f15c60466e4cf6a65a3c04300 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Memory and the Futility of Containment on a Smaller Scale in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10019/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:11:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 440e28ff910141b308077e97de7cb01b Cameron Rustay edited the blog post A Close to Home Violence Against New Orleans in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9826/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:57:08 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f2c48011cc445177c10c89c55ef4dfc6 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Racial Tension: Beyond the Surface in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9789/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:07:49 -0500 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]

]]> 0 eaf2109b1d47ec82eefa31c9cbdb6143 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Ostracized and Undervalued in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9705/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:06:20 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f1b927f4a46e40cb451d36b73a1a0ae8 Cameron Rustay edited the blog post The Boundary Between Light and Darkness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9536/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:05:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 56157c9ab02dee95b7353dfce9b820a5 Cameron Rustay joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8768/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:44:33 -0500 0 3cb23cd238e42ec148c043072ea3971e Cameron Rustay commented on the post, American Education and Interdisciplinarity, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/01/american-education-and-interdisciplinarity/#comment-63 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:40:16 -0500 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 […]

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