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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence

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  Antar Tichavakunda University of Southern California

  March 02, 2015

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  responded, “No, I’m not saying that at all, I’m saying that he basically rushed towards the officers with his ...
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  You Can’t Conjure as a Coven of One

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 05, 2017

  the self beyond the limits of expectations to form new and hard-fought possibilities. But as McCraney ...
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  Changing the Narrative: Rewriting Black Girlhood in HBO's Lovecraft Country

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  Desirée de Jesus Concordia University

  February 11, 2021

  while also gesturing toward possible Black girl futures. ...
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  Black Study as Practice: Claiming the B-Side as Black Study

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  djones Georgia State University

  September 12, 2023

  potential, but for the sake of care? What liberatory possibilities emerge from unmooring the B-side from the ...
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  Live, Love, Labor: Bill Duke's The Killing Floor and the Performance of Politicized Sociality

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  NicholasForster Yale University

  November 11, 2020

  history of pain and possibility. It is through Gunn that we understand Williams’ past reckoning with the ...
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  “The Persistence of “Wild Style”: Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation

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  Michele Prettyman Mercer University

  April 30, 2020

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  “The Persistence of “Wild Style”: Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation Visual aesthetic music videos blackness Wild Style hip hop Black Aesthetics Curator's Note My piece in the  J CMS  In Focus, “Modes o ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...