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Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Noticing How to Doubt in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 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: 7 years, 4 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: 7 years, 4 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 […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Recursive Memory in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months 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 […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Observation vs. Engagement in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months 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 […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Doubting Doubt in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months 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 […]
Cameron Rustay wrote a new blog post Culture as Survival in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months 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 […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post What Do You Mean by “Authentic”? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 6 months 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.” […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Something New Under the Artificial Light in the group American Studies: 7 years, 6 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 […]
Cameron Rustay edited the blog post Cycling Through Doubt in the group American Studies: 7 years, 7 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 […]

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