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Asylum Seekers Thrown In Jail
“As the Biden administration ends the illegal Title 42 policy and restores compliance with refugee law, it should not jail asylum-seekers...
Shamaria Massenburg
Oct 17, 20223 min read
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A Strange Loop, Pechakucha
A Strange Loop is a play about a young fat black man who is also writing a play about a man writing a play. Or at least that is how I...
reganafogle
Oct 13, 20223 min read
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Why Kansas? Why Now? My Take:
https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/shamarias-presentation-753 I think it’s clear that an musical that wins a pulitzer prize, is a...
Shamaria Massenburg
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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Why A Strange Loop, Why Now?
"Though it's too soon to say how Sunday's Tony Awards will impact box office for the night's winners and losers, figures for the week...
Marzi
Oct 12, 20224 min read
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Sercius Productions A Stange Loop, A Musical Play Pitch
A STRANGE LOOP LIMITED EDITION OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT PLAYBILL https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/sergios-presentation-666...
Sergio Alicea
Oct 12, 20225 min read
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A Strange Loop Pechakucha
A Strange Loop by Micheal R. Jackson first premiered off-broadway in 2019. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize for drama in 2020 and a...
Keelan
Oct 11, 20225 min read
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A Strange Loop: A Pechakucha
A Strange Loop is a musical written by playwright Michael R. Jackson which premiered on off-Broadway stages in 2019. The play shortly...
Nikita
Oct 10, 20226 min read
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Representation: Dave Chappelle's Milestones and Controversies
Comedian Dave Chappelle in his controversial Netflix special “The Closer.” (Mathieu Bitton / Netflix) Lawrence, 8 October 2022 - Welcome...
Sergio Alicea
Oct 8, 20224 min read
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Recent Representations of Race in Film and Television
Photo courtesy of TV Insider, The cast of Abbott Elementary on set The last few weeks we have read and spoke in depth about the process...
Nikita
Oct 5, 20227 min read
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Race as a concept formed of performative acts and language we use
Imagining the potential migration between the human classification of race is the idea that Faedra Chatard Carpenter begins the chapter...
Marzi
Oct 5, 20223 min read
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Race Representation: Dave Chappelle
Over the years the representation of black people in the mainstream media has changed multiple times. In some ways these people have been...
reganafogle
Oct 4, 20224 min read
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The Importance of Black Mainstream Media
If you’re not black, it’s hard to understand why it is important that we see black people in mainstream media, or why it’s such a big...
Shamaria Massenburg
Oct 4, 20224 min read
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Dave Chapelle, Edgy Comedy, and Racial Formation
This week we continued talking about racial formation and its implications for media and digital content. Mainly we focused on Dave...
Keelan
Oct 3, 20223 min read
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I am who I am because somebody loved me
The first definition of race that comes to mind might be categorizing humans based on their geographical origins and physical body, such...
Marzi
Sep 28, 20223 min read
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Reality Checks and Racial Formation
Race, according to Omi and Winant, is “a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different...
Nikita
Sep 28, 20225 min read
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The Reality of Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/george-floyd-timing.html What is race today? Race today is the backbone of all segregation and...
reganafogle
Sep 28, 20224 min read
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Race: Creation or Formation?
Race is a poor proxy for human genetic differences and should no longer be used by researchers, says a paper in the journal Science. AP...
Sergio Alicea
Sep 28, 20225 min read
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Racial Formation
“You all knew Prefontaine as an athlete, but we knew him as a human being” “I am a contingent extension of my heritage–of a people that...
Shamaria Massenburg
Sep 26, 20223 min read
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Reality and Racial Formation
Racial formation theory is the idea that race is a socially constructed identity, where racial categories are determined by social,...
Keelan
Sep 26, 20223 min read
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We really need an In-Yer-Face theatre
Blasted is an antiviolence play depicting mental and physical violence such as rape, suicide, cannibalism, and war. In 1995, when it was...
Marzi
Sep 21, 20223 min read
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