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Interiority, Metamorphosis, and Simone Leigh’s Hybrid Cowries
ArtsBy way of an analysis of Simone Leigh’s You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been (2017), this essay argues that by hybridizing the cowrie and watermelon, Leigh creates her own natural history of these biological forms that disorders the rigid taxonomic ...
Tiffany Johnson Bidler
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundIncarceration and HIV disproportionately impact African American communities. The mass incarceration of African American men is hypothesized to increase HIV acquisition risk for African American women.
Joëlla W Adams +7 more
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Habiter le monde avec des sons
Géographie et Cultures, 2010 In the history of Afro-American culture, music has always occupied a special place. Black writers, artists, philosophers and sociologists etc. have all felt obliged to pay their debt to or set their aesthetic goals based on music’s achievements.
Emmanuel Parent
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Яковенко И.В. Поэт как критик: Элизабет Александер о классиках афро-американской литературы [PDF]
, 2019 In the article we analyze Elizabeth Alexander’s book of critical essays «The Power and Possibility» (2007), investigating the poet’s views on art and culture, race and identity. The methodological toolkit of the research is Black/African American studies.
Yakovenko, Iryna
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Between the Literary and the Visual: Inter-Artistic Approaches to African-American Art History [PDF]
, 2012 A stubborn truism vexes African-American art history: the canon of black American literature is viewed as more established and robust than that of black American visual arts.
Bidler, Tiffany Johnson +5 more
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The impacts of biological invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Abstract Subjects: Adia Millett, Abstraction, and the Black Aesthetic Tradition
ArtsThe Oakland, California-based artist Adia Millett is among an ever-growing generation of Black artists who have embraced abstraction in their creative production.
Derek Conrad Murray
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"Prices for Paintings by African American Artists and Their Contemporaries: Does Race Matter? (Revision of Working Paper No. 2006-06)" [PDF]
This paper investigates the extent that economic markets have incorporated mainstream artistic acceptance of African American art. Price levels and movements for paintings by African American artists versus their white contemporaries are compared using ...
Richard Agnello, Xiaowen Xu
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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Depicting African American womanhood in a transatlantic space
AnglesThe quest for emancipation was shaped by the influence of Africa – the symbolic homeland or “Motherland” – on African American womanhood and its representation in art.
Melissa Grand
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