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  Black Moses Barbie and the Humor of Black Trauma

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  Mark Anthony Neal Duke University

  December 04, 2014

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  Black Moses Barbie and the Humor of Black Trauma satire Pierre Bennu Harriet Tubman Curator's Note   The very idea of “slave action figures” might sound absurd, but it’s an idea that conceptual videographer Pierre Bennu depicts in his “Black Moses Ba ...
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  Re: Close encounters of the open kind

  Scholarship, self-reflection, and open source academia

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  Pam Cook University of Southampton, UK

  Thursday, December 4, 2014 — 10:35 am

  process, in the best possible way. However, we are also confronted with imponderables that require new ways ...
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  Re: Something to Prove?: Contemplating the Fake Geek Academic

  Access is key

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  Heber Rodriguez Artspekt

  Friday, December 5, 2014 — 3:37 am

  access this research, perhaps there can be a greater possibility for change. ...
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  Re: Scholarly Striptease. Or, The Unintended Consequences of Film Studies For Free

  Laziness versus Creativity?

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  Bo Wen University of Southern California

  Friday, December 5, 2014 — 3:41 am

  beautified as creativity to some extent. How can we void the possibility that people simply ...
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  Re: Black Moses Barbie and the Humor of Black Trauma

  (Online) Art Models Change

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  Vicki Callahan usc

  Friday, December 5, 2014 — 9:05 pm

  and incisive, and explodes any assumptions regarding the possibilities of “positive” models within the ...
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  Forget the Pain- Indulge for Change

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  Emily Kofoed Georgia State University

  December 10, 2014

  yet it raised a substantial amount of money and received a fair amount of press. I’m interested in how ...
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  Philan-selfie: Attribution Vs. Contribution

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  Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

  December 12, 2014

  2 comments

  surrounding #YesAllWomen, #BringBackOurGirls and #Kony2012 evidenced a possible colonization of causes that ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...
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  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

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  Lisa Perks Nazareth College

  December 17, 2014

  3 comments

  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love Star Wars sidekicks love Lord of the Rings Heroes harry potter Curator's Note The word sidekick connotes unequal power relations: sidekicks are a hero’s support staff, his or her assistants. A closer analysis of t ...

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