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Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post Growing Pains in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Canadian poet, Dionne Brand, delicately states, “My job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice.” When I first read the syllabus at the beginning of the semester, I glanced over this quote without givin […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post The Congo in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

After finishing Big Machine on Monday, my group was able to tie together some points that occurred to us throughout the semester. I was in Tayler’s group discussion during class and we were able to come to the r […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post Soul-Eating Cats in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

Anyone who knows me knows my immense adoration for cats. I know that Dr. McCoy can attest for this as she watched me pet dozens of stray cats in Dakar, Senegal. I have grown up with a black cat that I’ve had s […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post How We Observe in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

After reading Tayler’s post about Suzan-Lori Parks play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, it made me think more about the way in which we learn about slavery and observe the continent of Africa. […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post ‘These Are Books We Have to Read’ in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

After Monday’s class when we had to pick out a quote from our reading that stuck out to us, I remembered a quote from earlier in the novel that I kept thinking about: “To be an American is to be a believer! But […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post The Tail in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

This past weekend I was lucky enough to experience my first Passover Seder with my boyfriend and his grandparents. I have been raised with Athiest beliefs, only briefly educated in Christianity from my […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post A Response to Analiese Vasciannie’s Theory on ‘Us’ in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

I was very excited to read Analiese’s blog post as I recently saw ‘Us’ and made very similar connections in my mind. It is definitely a classic Jordan Peele move to have so many underlying meanings behind a film. […]
Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post The Regime of the Visual in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

This morning I was listening to an episode about Scientology from the Mile Higher podcast. This podcast opened up with a question from a listener about aliens and the idea of a different form of life. The p […]
Elana Evenden edited the blog post Judge Less, Think More in the group American Studies: 7 years, 7 months ago

As we delve further into the semester, I find myself continually thinking about the concept of the mask and the veil. When thinking about the concept of the mask of the veil within African American literature, I […]
Elana Evenden edited the blog post Art versus Artifact in the group American Studies: 7 years, 7 months ago

Having a double major in English Literature and Art History, I have noticed a clear lack of representation of African or African American art and literature unless it is being appropriated by European culture or […]

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