English @ SUNY Geneseo | Emma Mandella | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ehm8/activity/ Activity feed for Emma Mandella. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6f9d93362af02aa7b53e3a9c3c677e03 Emma Mandella edited the blog post Janelle Monae/Audre Lorde in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10902/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:58:40 -0500 “…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)

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]]> 0 5449ec2a3afbc8ffb852730da468e8de Emma Mandella commented on the post, Snead/Space is the Place, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10852/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:36:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 0049022ee9317726df402f0cd293c10c Emma Mandella edited the blog post Snead/Space is the Place in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10844/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:33:33 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fad6baeb884ef5a6c70ac22b1eb7f8b6 Emma Mandella wrote a new blog post White Men and Power in Space is the Place in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10814/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:40:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 b0c385437cd3b1d6f9d1d8ef5548bd4c Emma Mandella wrote a new blog post Modern Music and Afrofuturism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10757/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:58:07 -0500 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; […]

]]> 0 c75e3b5e4b48ed40dea90a7dd222a811 Emma Mandella commented on the post, response week 3, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10701/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:39:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9a48184d38484c6139d9a9085d860621 Emma Mandella commented on the post, Blog Post Week 3, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10697/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:52:42 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 7ec6643dfc0efa92a712f000483dc76e Emma Mandella edited the blog post Langston Hughes and Afrofuturism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10696/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:44:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 446f8babc8687bab4468ce737d224659 Emma Mandella edited the blog post Liberia's Response to Hegel in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10575/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:06:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 85ccada6e5c5a8c1cbdacafd948754d8 Emma Mandella edited the blog post Hegel's Hypocrisy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10474/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 02:41:47 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 e877445693ee648867c1460026fdb485 Emma Mandella joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10377/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:47:28 -0500 0 992ac5663e982039ea4060fc6c101e53 Emma Mandella joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10361/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:39:54 -0500 0 fd30702c6861ebf6be08a524cdc15b73 Emma Mandella became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10357/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:39:14 -0500 0