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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Concluding thoughts: Confederate flags, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, & the both/and of memory in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

As someone who studies history, I’ve always been concerned with memory. And this class has memory at its center. It has allowed me to think of the ways that memory can represent a both/and. It reminds me that […]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to the “irony of aid”, providing aid within the colonialist context in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

Neha recently made a caring blog post about the irony of aid, thinking about Jo Cosme’s tarot cards, the etymology of aid, and the essential lack of care in the U.S. response to Hurricane Maria, especially […]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Thinking about care; remembering Salvador in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

I’ve been thinking a lot about the article we read on prison abolition– “Free Us All”— and the lessons about care embedded into it. I don’t think it is easy for many to associate radical politics with care, partially because of the connotations associated with the word “radical.” Yet, this is exactly what is happening in the feminist and fe…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Global Connections: Invisible and Hypervisible Salvador in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

“This process of forgetting is essential to the social construction of the city, creating in essence two cities, a ‘visible city as much as an invisible city.’” –Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

If New Orleans is considered an Unfathomable City, then some anthropol…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Forgetting Typhoon Tip in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

By Matt Albanese, Noah Mazer, Tree McNulty, Isabel Owen, Melissa Rao, Don Rothwein, and Davina Ward
The Story of Typhoon Tip
The scientific knowledge for Typhoon Tip/Warling is extensive. According a 1980 article entitled “An Analysis of Super Typhoon Tip” by George Dunnavan and John Diercks, Tip is the most studied storm in recent memory. For…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to Christina’s post on sentinel species in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

A few weeks ago, Christina wrote a rich blog post about using the concepts of sentinel species and range to contextualize post-Katrina New Orleans as a “canary in the coal mine.” She discussed how what happened in New Orleans allowed for increased discussion on topics like climate change, the environment, and how our government reacts to…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post What happened to ACORN? Have we seen this before? in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

In class, we got our first glimpse of ACORN through Josephine Butler and her granddaughter, Tanya Harris. Both wore bright red T-shirts adorned with an ACORN symbol– a typical field uniform– as they were interviewed on a hot, bright day amid the destruction in the Lower Ninth Ward.

ACORN, which stands for Association of Community…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Catastrophes, wishes, and provision ground ideology in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

“…Catastrophe may reemerge from memory in the shape of a wish.”—Joseph Roach

I feel that this is a quote that we have not yet unpacked so deeply in class. Even so, this piece of Roach’s discussion on performance, autochthony, allochthony, and origins stuck out to me. Maybe it’s partially the elegance of the phrase: the juxtaposition of st…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post On the life and death of Muhiyidin Moye, Black Lives Matter activist in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

In February, 2017, Muhiyidin Moye leaped across police tape to remove a Confederate flag from the hands of a Demonstrator in Charleston, South Carolina– and it was captured on national live television. A prominent Black Lives Matter activist, Moye took an intersectional and local approach to his work, rising in protest in Mount Pleasant against…[Read more]
Isabel Owen edited the blog post Instruments for and against memory in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

“Echoes in the bone refer to not only to a history of forgetting but to a history of empowering the living through the performance of memory.” —Joseph Roach, “Echoes in the Bone”

I felt my most profound stirring at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem when I entered the Children’s Memorial. Eyes squinting from the sun soon entered…[Read more]

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