Things Not Seen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Vogel
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Nonfiction Book ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
Trayvon Martin

This chapter reads Baldwin’s award-winning essay, “Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen” and elaborated final nonfiction book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, as a corrective to sensationalist media accounts of the Atlanta child murders and simplistic gloss-overs of the New South. This chapter argues that while Evidence is perhaps Baldwin’s most neglected work (both upon publication and today), it offers one of the most penetrating examinations of the paradoxes, hypocrisies, and illusions of the Reagan era. It also presciently anticipates the “post-racial” violence that continues in the Obama era, from Trayvon Martin to Mike Brown, from Sandra Bland to the Charleston Nine.

scholarly journals Entangled Encounters: The Transcultural Counterwitness and Implication in Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s Situations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Moran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
Stop And Frisk ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Trayvon Martin

Drawing on current definitions of public testimony, this study turns to the work of Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s Situations to explore how video poems challenge the pervasive stereotyping of black Americans in mainstream journalism and implicate viewers, particularly white ones, into the everyday and historical traumas of racial violence. Video poems, such as Situations, take advantage of multimodal channels to move viewers beyond spectator guilt to introduce a more nuanced understanding of American and global racism. Through an investigation of three of their video poems, “Stop and Frisk,” “In Memory of Trayvon Martin,” and “World Cup,” this study explores how Rankine and Lucas’s work opposes, and engages with, the pervasive stereotyping of black Americans presented in mainstream news media; how the multimodal nature of video poetry problematizes the viewers’ relationship with American and global racism; and how acts of counterwitnessing implicate viewers into distant histories of racial trauma.

scholarly journals Much Bigger Than a Hamburger: Disrupting Problematic Picturebook Depictions of the Civil Rights Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez ◽  
Amanda Vickery
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
The Face

While more diverse children's literature about youth activism is available than ever before, popular picturebooks often perpetuate problematic tropes about the Civil Rights Movement. In this article, we conduct a critical content analysis of the award-winning picturebook The Youngest Marcher and contrast the book's content to a critical race counterstory of the Movement focused on the collective struggle for justice in the face of racial violence. We argue for the need to engage students in civic media literacy through a critical race lens and offer ways to nuance the limited narratives often found in children's literature.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Trayvon Martin

The conclusion notes the ways that Malcolm X’s criticism of U.S. policy in the Congo, which he finds consistent with a larger disregard for the lives of Black people, globally conceived, is echoed in the words and actions of Black Lives Matter activists, who organized following the murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, and the failure to prosecute his killer. Sanford is a town founded by Henry Shelton Sanford, who represented the United States at the Berlin Conference and worked as a lobbyist for King Leopold II, which helped to fund his Florida empire. This chapter notes that Sanford was directly at odds with George Washington Williams during their lifetime and up until their deaths, which suggests that the Congo appears as an integral part of the landscape of U.S. racial violence and that African American critics of colonialism have always been willing to use their voices to say so.

A Eureka Year

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Range Space ◽  
White House ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Capitol Hill ◽  
The Press ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
Press Office

Chapter 16 opens with Bradbury’s award-winning “The Electric Grandmother” adaptation for NBC’s Project Peacock 1982 special and another adaptation of “All Summer in a Day,” later rebroadcast as part of the PBS Wonderworks series. Bradbury’s summer 1982 return to Washington, D.C. included a lecture at the Library of Congress, time with Senator Robert Packwood on Capitol Hill, and an unscheduled trip to the White House, where he received a tour hosted by the press office and discussed his support for Reagan-era NASA initiatives. His support of the Reagan administration’s policies was selective, focusing on economic policies and long-range space exploration planning.

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