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Opposing A Spectacle of Blackness: Arap Baci, Baci Kalfa, Dadi, and the Invention of African Presence in Turkey

open access: yesLateral, 2021
The imaging of Africans in Turkey is indicative of the extant register of cultural understanding in the Turkish popular imagination regarding the imaginability, knowability, and understandability of Black form represented. In Turkish popular culture, the
Bam Willoughby
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Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978)

open access: yesBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2022
This essay reassesses the political significance of the creative impulses, performance aesthetics and artistic work that became identified collectively as música popular black, and their contribution to the anti-racist cause in Brazil during the 1964-85 ...
David Treece
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The Power of Neoliberalism: Transformation, Neo-Elitism and Class Continuities in the Post-Apartheid Media

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022
Critical political economy of the media investigates how changes in the array of forces that exercise control of media institutions liberate or limit the public sphere.
Prinola Govenden
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Black Lives Matter and the Removal of Racist Statues

open access: yes21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2020
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have been accompanied by calls for the removal of statues of racists from public space.
Caesar Alimsinya Atuire
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Gambe nude su pubblica "Piazzetta"? Intorno a un caso di censura mancata della tv delle origini (1956)

open access: yesSchermi, 2021
The article deals with one of the first “scandals” connected to the sexual sphere on Italian television, just out of its experimental period: the apparent nude (actually a pink leotard, hidden by the stage lights and the black and white) of dancer Alba ...
Luca Barra
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Pandemics, Protests, and Publics

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
As an integral component of public discourse, Twitter is among the main data sources for scholarship in this area. However, there is much that scholars do not know about the basic mechanisms of public discourse on Twitter, including the prevalence of ...
Sarah Shugars   +8 more
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NATO Public Diplomacy in the Mediterranean‒Black Sea Region [PDF]

open access: yesСовременная Европа
The article analyzes the main forms and methods of NATO’s public diplomacy in the Mediterranean-Black Sea region in the context of significant geopolitical processes taking place in this regional space.
Evgeny S. Korenev
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Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese humanitarian Miki Sawada, and her adoption of a pair of Japanese ...
Konomi Ara
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Mic Checks and Balances: Politically Conscious Hip-Hop’s Engagement with the Presidency of Barack Obama

open access: yesDiffractions, 2019
Hip-hop subculture has long existed as an anti-establishment space that has provided some of U.S. society’s strongest and most unfiltered critiques against the federal government.
Kareem R. Muhammad
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The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality

open access: yesReligions, 2018
“The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere.
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
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