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Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Southern Spaces, 2015 Howard Dodson, former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and current director of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, delivers the keynote address at the 2014 Callaloo Conference held at Emory University. The
Howard Dodson
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Strategic Afro-Modernism, Dynamic Hybridity, and Bebop's Socio-Political Significance [PDF]
, 2013 In this chapter, I argue that one can articulate a historically attuned and analytically rich model for understanding jazz in its various inflections. That is, on the one hand, such a model permits us to affirm jazz as a historically conditioned, dynamic
Nielsen, Cynthia R.
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Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract As young people explore and reflect on the conditions of their neighborhoods and communities, they can forge a critical consciousness—merging their perspectives and analysis to direct both individual and collective actions. Photovoice is a methodological tool that allows participants to document their perspectives and analysis and discuss with
Linnea L. Hjelm +4 more
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Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
Southern Spaces, 2011 Joel Mann, Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007. Through an examination of expressive forms, musicians, and artisans in post-Katrina New Orleans, this multi-media essay explores creolization as an approach to ethnographic work that ...
Nick Spitzer
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Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs +6 more
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Southern Spaces, 2005 Poet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005, on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006. Trethewey's
Natasha Trethewey
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Neoconcretism and minimalism: on Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the non-object [PDF]
, 2005 Publisher's text about this book: This first book in the Annotating Art's Histories series revisits the period in which modernist attitudes took shape, examining the ways in which a shared history of art and ideas was experienced in different nations ...
Asbury, Michael
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Book reviews: "Food in Sub-Saharan Africa" and "The politics of food aid - a comparison of American and Canadian policies" [PDF]
, 1987 Draft of two book reviews for the International Journal of African Historical Studies: 1) Food in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Art Hasnsen and Della E. McMillan, Food in Africa Series at the Center for African Studies, University of Florida.
Seidman, Ann
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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