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Foundations of Black Hole Accretion Disk Theory [PDF]

open access: yesLiving Reviews in Relativity, 2013
This review covers the main aspects of black hole accretion disk theory. We begin with the view that one of the main goals of the theory is to better understand the nature of black holes themselves.
A Brandenburg   +311 more
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Review of "The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies" by Tiffany Lethabo King (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2020
In this ambitious first book, Tiffany Lethabo King disrupts what she sees as settler-colonial studies' tendency to privilege the settler/conquistador as the ethical subject of Western theory.
Laura Goldblatt
doaj   +1 more source

whiteness

open access: yesPerformance Philosophy, 2022
This “illuminated” video essay works through the juxtaposition of textual and audiovisual material to interrogate the cultural and philosophical whiteness of bodies and institutions.
Ben Spatz   +3 more
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Hella Bars: The Cultural Inclusion of Black Women’s Rap in Insecure

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2022
The musical supervision of HBO’s insecure sonically maps various representations of Black women’s connections to hip-hop music as a site of autonomy, agency, and authenticity. Importantly, the variety of Black female rappers who are featured in seasons 1–
Johnson Adeerya
doaj   +1 more source

Recovering the Irrecoverable: Blackness, Melancholy, and Duplicities That Bind

open access: yesReligions, 2021
In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery.
Joseph Winters
doaj   +1 more source

Blackness, Empire and migration: How Black Studies transforms the curriculum

open access: yesArea, 2020
University curricula are overwhelmingly Eurocentric, providing a narrow framework of knowledge through which to view the world. Issues of race and racism when taught tend to be marginalised as something additional, extra, a disposable luxury.
Kehinde Andrews
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“You Think We Fixta Git up off Dis Block for Real?”

open access: yesIperstoria, 2022
The process of othering of black people in the US can be traced back to the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the identity produced by such legacy is constantly haunted by a past—that of slavery and segregation—and by a present—that of systemic racism—that cage ...
Chiara Patrizi
doaj   +1 more source

For bell hooks: “White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy” and “Feminism is for Everybody” in U.S. History and Politics

open access: yesUSAbroad, 2023
This sixth issue of USAbroad aims to celebrate the importance and impact of bell hooks’ work, which challenges the national and international boundaries of academic disciplines and of the cultural marketplace to present a “feminism for everybody ...
Paola Rudan, Matteo Battistini
doaj   +1 more source

"A Good Story": On Black Abjection in Improv Comedy

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014
This paper discusses Black absence in Improv Comedy as a symptom for the racial exclusion inherent in Humanism. Critiquing Enlightenment thought as the epistemological basis for Improv's liberatory and democratic ideals, I engage in deconstructive play ...
Michel Büch
doaj   +1 more source

Review of "Dear Science and Other Stories" by Katherine McKittrick (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2022
With "Dear Science and Other Stories," Katherine McKittrick does the work of liberation and enacts new ways of being. Building on her previous studies, this collection engages in a story-sharing, collaborative praxis that emerges from a “black sense of ...
Jade How, Gada Mahrouse
doaj   +1 more source

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