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Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post A (Brief) Tribute To My Experience With Maps This Semester in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

This semester we looked (albeit it somewhat briefly) at maps and how they had the ability to tell stories through a cycle of memory and forgetting and even had the power to give a narrative perspective to all […]
Melissa Rao edited the blog post Extreme Home Makeover and Hurricane Katrina in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

By: Erin Herbst and Melissa Rao

We’ve talked this semester about the origins of traditions and the origins of hurricanes, so we felt it would be appropriate to begin this blog post remembering that the idea f […]
Melissa Rao edited the blog post Memory and Media in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

After Monday’s class discussion I found myself very entrenched in thinkING about the thread of conversation that several of my peers brought up regarding films and movies that had been altered after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Beth brought up how this directly ties into performances of memory and forgetting, and…[Read more]
Melissa Rao edited the blog post The Hurricane Heist in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

I’ve been mulling about how to approach this post for a few weeks now and now think that after some helpful re-grounding in our course principles and ideas I feel confident in retuning to the blog with this strand of thinkING.

A while back I started seeing commercials and ads on both television and online for a now in theaters action-heist…[Read more]
Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post Scooby Doo & Voodoo in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

A few class periods ago we looked at and examined the FEMA USR signs and their curious correlations with some Haitian voodoo vévé images and symbols. My group’s discussion on this topic turned into a very e […]
Melissa Rao edited the blog post Wake, Wake, Wake in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

I’ve been milling among the ideas circulating in my mind about what I would concentrate on for my second blog post, and to be honest, it has been slightly disorientating. I believe that I was getting lost in the emotional minefields that kept popping up for me after enduring our continual viewings of When The Levees Broke, similarly to how Erin a…[Read more]
Melissa Rao edited the blog post “Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

Several classes ago we examined the photo of the troubling, arguably morally ambiguous, scene of the ‘Tot-Tanic’ in a park that Professor McCoy stumbled into. I believe it is fair to say that most of us in the class were quite taken a back that this horrific, albeit quite deeply embedded in the past, event was willfully turned into a playground…[Read more]
Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post Children of War in the group American Studies: 9 years, 4 months ago

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler has been really striking a chord with me and it has proven itself to be quite a powerful journey for myself, and I am sure for many others in this class as well, to have […]
Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post Democracy and Citizenship in Our Time (and in Mr. Blandings’ Time) in the group American Studies: 9 years, 5 months ago

On Friday April 7, 2017 I was fortunate enough to be able to attend one of the panels during the Democracy and Citizenship in Our Time teach-in that took place on campus. Topics that were discussed during Panel II […]
Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post Big Family Trees in the group American Studies: 9 years, 5 months ago

When we first started reading The Turner House I was immediately hit with a rather strong sense of déjà vu as I came across in the paratext the family tree that Angela Flournoy prefaced her novel with. I took no […]

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