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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Michelle Wolf in Effigy: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
As we finished our last class today, I thought it was only appropriate that I attempt to apply course concepts to an outside event. I stand a mere 10 days from finishing my time at Geneseo (as long as I survive my […]
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Man in the Mirror: Parallel Characters and Categorization in The Tempest in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Today, my castmate in The Tempest, Jeanmarie Ryan, dropped a theory in front of the cast and then walked away. “I think there are two mirrored character pairs that explore possible outcomes of a similar dy […]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Caliban, Colonialism, and Me in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Hatred of Caliban was the running joke of Shakespeare on the Green’s production of The Tempest. Justified with just five words (“He tried to rape Miranda!”) our cast decided that there was no jest too mean to lev […]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Challenges to Care: Familial Response to Displacement and Trauma in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
By Jenna Lawson, Clio Lieberman, Helen Warfle
The progression of disaster narratives culminating in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One brought us to reflect on what we know of families in disaster scenarios from our “Parenting in the Zombie Apocalypse” course with Dr. Kirsh. In light of this connection, we challenged ourselves to examine how famil…
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Big Freedia and Queer Erasure in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
When Dr. DeFrantz guest lectured our class on Friday, I was ecstatic to learn more about dance. As a die-hard theater kid who was called “allergic to moving with any sense of purpose” by my high school theater teacher, I was excited to be included in a dancer’s environment in any capacity. Before the class started, I saw Dr. DeFrantz pull up…
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post On Romanticization Versus Advocacy for Incarcerated Individuals in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Since we first encountered it a few class sessions ago, I’ve been captivated by Mariame Kaba’s essay “Free Us All,” and its wariness of building movements around individuals. Rather, Kaba cites the #FreeBr […]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Hurricane Iniki: Look at All Those Chickens in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
By Jenna Lawson, Jonathan Kalman, Aidan Koch, Madi Bussmann, Clio Lieberman, & Cameron Rustay
In Hawaiian, the word “Iniki” has a somewhat contradictory meaning. Some categorize it on a surface level as meaning “strong and piercing wind.” However, a deeper look into Hawaiian language dictionaries turns up the definition “to pin…
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Congratulations, I Played Myself in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
I hope readers of this post will indulge my flippant reference to DJ Khaled. Upon completing my essay on Saturday, I inadvertantly got to experience both a cycle of memory and forgetting as well as violence as the […]
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post We Have to Talk About Ray Nagin in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
When Beth suggested the we look into former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin’s fate post “When the Levees Broke,” I felt a sense of dreadful anticipation. I knew corruption was the inevitable conclusion conclusion to […]
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post On the fear of creating waste in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
I’ve been dreading completing my first blog post. I was avoiding it at all costs, rationalizing its postponement for just a little bit longer each time I opened up this website. It’s taken me until now, but I fin […]
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Some Thoughts on Modern Indentured Servitude in the group American Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago
Hello, everyone! Congratulations on making it almost to the end of the semester. I’ve been thinking a lot about sharecropping, company towns, and other methods of debt slavery-esque practices in recent history. […]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Mr. Blandings’ Dream House and Aunt Jemima in the group American Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago
The end of Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House filled me with a rage I did not anticipate. The Blandings’ maid Gussie ends up saving the day with a slogan for Mr. Blandings’ WHAM advertisement without knowing it, saying “If you ain’t eating WHAM, you ain’t eating ham!” The movie then ends with an advertisement of Gussie’s photo with her slogan…[Read more]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Invisible Privilege: Wealth Gaps in the group American Studies: 6 years, 12 months ago
Watching Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House during class yesterday, I found Blandings’s inconveniences and dissatisfactions full of deeply unappreciative and bourgeois undertones. What spoke to me specifically was the casual mention of government bonds as a method of buying their dream house and how the accumulation of wealth is heavily i…[Read more]
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Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Mexico City and How Water Begets Poverty in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
The below post is based on the information from this article. All credit to Dr. Ryan Jones and his History of Modern Mexico course for leading me to this information.
As Mexico City, the most populous city in […]
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Jenna Lawson edited the blog post The Origins of the Housing Crisis in the group American Studies: 7 years, 1 month ago
As a History major, I have taken extensive coursework on structural inequalities experienced by black Americans. I’d like to take the time here to share a brief summary of what I’ve learned. All of this information comes either from in-class sessions with Professors Mapes and Crosby or from Thomas Sugrue’s book “The Origins of the Urban Crisis:…[Read more]
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Jenna Lawson joined the group American Studies 7 years, 2 months ago
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Jenna Lawson posted a new page, on the site Irish Studies 7 years, 4 months ago
Introduction
This website is primarily concerned with analyzing the way body modification functions as a political and cultural indicator in Ireland following the Easter 1916 Rising. The human body i […] -
Jenna Lawson became a registered member 7 years, 4 months ago