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Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post A Semester in Review: Exploring the Many Sides of Bias in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
surely […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Sex Work is not a Crutch: How Big Machine Falls Short in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

The first time I thought about writing this blog post was after the reading of “The Resistance: An Adele Henry Adventure.” I held myself back though, because I knew that my immediate response would likely be too […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Commodity Fetishism in Big Machine in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

A recurring motif in Victor Lavalle’s Big Machine is immense amount of detail and narrative space given to clothing and particularly the clothing of the scholars as it is described by Ricky Rice, the narrator. […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Saartjie Baartman: The Story of the Many Sides of Autonomy in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

(Trigger Warning: this blog post contains discussions of racialized sexual violence against black women.)

A figure who has come up A LOT in my scholarship this semester is Saartjie Baartman. Baartman, or the […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Jordan Peele’s Us Shocks and Reads its Viewers (for filth) in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

Over spring break I had the privilege of seeing the latest production of Jordan Peele, Us. After Get Out I was expecting to be impressed. Us generated $70 million in sales during its opening weekend. I think a l […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Sustainability: The Problems that Arise when We Neglect to Notice Invisible Labor in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

Group Members: Rosa Mesbahi, Jenna Doolan, Elana Evenden, Sarah Holsberg, Mikhayla Graham, Emily Pomainville, Cameron Rustay

MOVE ONE. We’d like to start with a simple definition of sustainability sy […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post W.B. Yeats and Carl Phillips in Conversation in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

I was thumbing through Angles of Ascent over the weekend and noticed a single dogeared page. Page 379, I had annotated a poem by Carl Phillips “Leda, After the Swan.” In the small group discussion a few weeks […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post How D’Aguiar Breathes Life into His Protagonists in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

When I went to the D’Aguiar reading, I wasn’t sure what to expect. At previous poetry readings I’ve been the audience to mainly women, who were mainly white, who were reading poems about love and heartb […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post bell hooks in Conversation with Thomas Jefferson in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

In the spirit of recursion, I’d like to go back to a text we covered in class on February 11th, “Notes on the State of Virginia.” When we encountered this text, it was in reference to fugitive slave narrat […]
Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post The Omnipresence of the “Unasked Question” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 6 months ago

“In Louis Althusser’s notion of interpellation, it is the police who initiate the call or address by which a subject becomes socially constituted. There is a policeman, the one not only who represents the law […]

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