A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Entire Career

This chapter discusses Burnett as a major African American director whose entire career has been devoted to the proposition that black lives matter, and it argues that his work deserves to be more widely known. It describes the aims and methods of the book and explains the term symbolic knowledge, which is Burnett’s way of describing a moral and social education gained from storytelling.

Strategies for Combating Erasure and Silencing

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Yelaine Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

Coda

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Cameron Leader-Picone
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Black Lives Matter

This coda briefly addresses the election of Donald Trump and the implications of an increasingly visible white nationalist movement on the arguments of the book. The coda also analyzes elements of the Black Lives Matter movement to argue that while much of the optimism of the post era has been mitigated, several of its major theoretical strains—the emphasis on individual agency over racial identity, the turn towards racial identity as performance—remain critical to understanding current activism. It also explains the influence of theoretical frameworks such as intersectionality and Afropessimism on current movements. The coda also looks briefly towards growing and ongoing trends in African American literature, like Afrofuturism.

Black Lives Matter: Examining an Urban High School STEAM Academy Supporting African American Students, Families, and Communities using a Healing-Centered Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Fletcher Jr. ◽  
Tony Xing Tan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Urban High School ◽  
Comprehensive High School ◽  
Wraparound Services ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
American Black

In this study, we used an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to examine how an urban high school STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) themed academy—with a 98% African American/Black and 100% economically disadvantaged student population—provided wraparound services to demonstrate care for students, families, and the community. We also studied how their school efforts promoted student engagement. In Phase 1, we collected qualitative data to examine the wraparound supports and philosophies that the school stakeholders (N = 39) used to promote a sense of caring as well as community. In Phase 2, we analyzed quantitative survey data from the African American/Black academy students (N = 177) on their levels of engagement (behavioral, cognitive, and emotional) in the school and compared them to African American/Black students at a comprehensive high school (N = 179). Based on a combination of perspectives of school personnel, school stakeholders, and results from the high school survey of student engagement, we found that the wraparound services provided equitable supports for economically disadvantaged students, was instituted using a healing-centered mindset, and enabled the school personnel and stakeholders to adopt a no excuse disposition. Even further, we found that in comparison to students at the large comprehensive high school, the academy students had statistically and practically significantly higher scores on behavioral engagement (p < .001; d = .58), and statistically significantly higher scores on cognitive engagement (p < .01; d = .31). There was no statistically significant difference in emotional engagement (p = .98). Our findings highlight best practices for ensuring equity for African American/Black high schools in the wake of both the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Black Lives Matter: An African American Experience!

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Mack T. Hines III
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Black Lives Matter

The purpose of this article is to provide a historical context for the meaning of the words Black Lives Matter. First, the author highlights the African perspectives of Black Lives Matter. Then, the author describes the American experiences that gave rise to this term. Through these analyses, readers will acquire a more in-depth understanding of the historical underpinnings of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

5. On the present and future of American poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
David Caplan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Black Lives Matter

“On the present and future of American poetry” argues that the contemporary poets who follow Robert Lowell’s model of blending public and private history often turn against the particular hierarchies that made the Lowell name seem “significant, illustrative, American, etc.” Instead, contemporary poets have taken up the challenge of presenting a new account of American history and culture. They introduce a new set of important names of people and places. The poets of the Black Lives Matter movement, for instance, elegize African American victims of police violence. At the same time, their poems add new variations of the two characteristics of American: the perceived need for distinctiveness and its transnationalism.

Terence Blanchard and the Politics of Breathing

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
James Gordon Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African American ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Systemic Violence

This chapter discusses trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s composition “Breathless” (2015). “Breathless” was Blanchard’s response to the 2014 killing of Eric Garner by members of the police on Staten Island and his musical connection to the Black Lives Matter social movement. Blanchard sonically represents breathlessness harmonically, rhythmically, and melodically within the values of Black musical space. It is argued that Blanchard’s orchestration of reverbed male and female sounds of exhalation with the spoken-word lyrics of JRei Oliver is a social critique of systemic violence. This chapter explains how Blanchard’s music is in conversation not only with the Black Lives Matter movement but with the archives and community repositories of improvised social justice music by past African American musicians who have historically created a Black sense of place through musical practices.

scholarly journals Hair Care Catered to You

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Sarah Reynolds ◽  
◽  
Meg Sorg
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Black Patients ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Hair Care

People of color face barriers in healthcare every day, and my goal was to address one of these barriers. Healthcare settings stock products that are tailored for Caucasian hair and skin, so I wanted to add products targeted for Black patients' skin and hair. I added shampoo and lotion to the supply closet of Peyton Manning Children's Hospital as well as bonnets and durags for the patients to wrap their hair in to protect it while they sleep or rest. African American hair and skin requires different care. This is something that often goes unnoticed by healthcare professionals, and I wanted to bring it to their attention. In order to support the Black Lives Matter movement, I chose products from black-owned businesses. I felt that the BLM movement was the heart and inspiration for this project, so choosing products from black-owned businesses felt appropriate.

What Does Archipelagic Thought Offer toward the Understanding of Latinx Identity?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Aldeide Delgado
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

Dialogues

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Tatiana Flores
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

Afro-Latinx at NYU

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Yelaine Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

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