Ethan Caldwell

Northwestern University

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Pioneering a "new" America? Complicating otherness with Levi's and Walt Whitman

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Ethan Caldwell Northwestern University

October 28, 2009
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Pioneering a "new" America? Complicating otherness with Levi's and Walt Whitman America Levis Otherness Curator's Note Levi’s is painting a new America, one pair of jeans and monochromatic commercial at a time. In its latest adverti ...

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Re: Blackface: The New "It" Bag

Blackface as a reinvestment in whiteness

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Ethan Caldwell Northwestern University

Friday, October 30, 2009 — 8:58 am
This is a well thought analysis, Kim. I would like to focus on a temporal component associated with blackface as a reinvestment in the privileges of whiteness. A white male or female can choose to embody a particular black aesthetic, one that can be d ...