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Mourner's bench
At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourners bench come revival, waiting for her sign, and then testifying in front of the whole church. But first, Sarah would need to navigate the growing tensions of small-town Arkansas in the 1960s. Both smarter and more serious than her years (a \"fifty-year-old mind in an eight-year-old body,\" according to Esther), Sarah was torn between the traditions, religion, and work ethic of her community and the progressive civil rights and feminist politics of her mother, who had recently returned from art school in Chicago. When organizers from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) came to town just as the revival was beginning, Sarah couldn't help but be caught up in the turmoil. Most folks just wanted to keep the peace, and Reverend Jefferson called the SNCC organizers \"the evil among us.\" But her mother, along with local civil rights activist Carrie Dilworth, the SNCC organizers, Daisy Bates, attorney John Walker, and indeed most of the country, seemed determined to push Maeby toward integration.
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White Diaspora
This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms \"homelessness.\" In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges.
In novels as disparate asTarzan(written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright'sNative Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora.
Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: \"the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue\" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.
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Ruth and The Green Book
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called \"The Negro Motorist Green Book\" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about \"The Green Book.\"
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Black Dreams, Electric Mirror
Sci-fi has the power to open dialogue because its alternate world-building enables students to feel far enough from reality to discuss social problems unreservedly. In this essay, I review an assignment I developed using Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams that present episodes in which militarized policing, segregation, and genocide occur with the consent and complicity of populations convinced that these measures enable their safety. Paralleling U.S. carceralism, the fictional communities have been inundated with media and political advertising for greater segregation but have themselves never experienced the criminalized violence that justifies widespread state harms. Through a generative dialogue engaging the media, a discussion question, and the concept of state terrorism, students move to observe their positionality and critically assess state violence. Therefore, I recommend this teaching tool for any critical instructors—especially minoritized professors teaching primarily White classrooms—to inspire a stimulating dialogue in service of connection-making and peacemaking in the classroom.
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White water : inspired by a true story
After tasting the warm, rusty water from the fountain designated for African Americans, a young boy questions why he cannot drink the cool, refreshing water from the \"Whites Only\" fountain. Based on a true experience co-author Michael S. Bandy had as a boy.
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“The Special Beat of Chicago”: Desegregation, Antiblack Noise, and the Sound of Resistance in Frank London Brown’s Trumbull Park
In African American fiction, racial segregation is usually understood in terms of an exclusionary spatial dynamic. Rights to space are vehemently disputed, and setting assumes the power to regulate the movement of racialized bodies. This essay, by contrast, approaches mid-twentieth-century (de)segregation fiction through its sonic manifestations. Frank London Brown’s Trumbull Park (1959) has been hailed as the fullest literary account we possess of involvement in a desegregation campaign, yet the overwhelming aural patterns of (de)segregation in Brown’s novel have never been explored. As theorized in this essay, an aural pattern of (de)segregation involves a dynamic of sound impacted by racially restrictive spatial practices. The essay argues that the intertwining of these two strands—the aural and the spatial—is essential to a more expansive understanding of Brown’s literary work, African American (de)segregation fiction, and, more generally, the audible archive of segregation-era expressive culture.
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Finding Lincoln
In segregated 1950s Alabama, Louis cannot use the public library to research a class assignment, but one of the librarians lets him in after hours and helps him find the book that he needs. Includes an author's note with historical information about library segregation in the South.
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Artificial women in science fiction film
Introducción: El presente artículo tiene como finalidad estudiar las representaciones de género de robots, cíborgs, ginoides, clones, hologramas e inteligencias artificiales femeninas en el cine de ciencia ficción. Se plantea como hipótesis que los estereotipos sexistas, ampliamente estudiados en personajes cinematográficos femeninos, se perpetúan en las creaciones artificiales femeninas del cine de ciencia ficción. Metodología: Se ha tomado una muestra de 83 personajes extraídos de la base de datos IMdB. Tras un análisis cuantitativo y clasificación de los datos, se procedió a realizar un análisis cualitativo sobre representación, asignación social y estereotipos de los personajes. Resultados: Los resultados obtenidos confirman que el género de ciencia ficción está intensamente masculinizado y la segregación ocupacional vertical es la nota dominante. Además, roles y estereotipos de género habituales en otros géneros cinematográficos se reproducen también en la ciencia ficción. Discusión: Las figuras no logran desprenderse de unos preceptos sexistas que se mantienen en el tiempo como consecuencia de la persistencia de una mirada masculina que impide romper con los parámetros de género socialmente establecidos. Conclusiones: Este estudio confirma la necesidad de establecer medidas que permitan a las mujeres acceder a una industria cultural altamente masculinizada para fomentar una representación de las figuras femeninas de ficción alejada de los estereotipos de género tradicionalmente asociados a las mujeres.
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A yellow watermelon : a novel
Growing up in poverty-stricken, racially segregated, rural Alabama in the late 1940s, a white boy named Ted and a black boy named Poudlum become secret friends, join forces to integrate the cotton field laborers, and try to stop evil forces from depriving Poudlum's family of their property and livelihood.
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Reading the Dystopian Imagination in Films: Parallels Between the Science-Fiction Narrative and Reality
A post-apocalyptic scene in the dystopian world is usually set in an uninhabitable place with clear signs of disintegration, characterized by extreme suffering, fear of oppression, violence, segregation and class-division based on identity politics for complete control of the general population. The narrative is often built around a large-scale disaster and raises crucial questions about the future. The reason why dystopian narratives matter in the present scenario is in relation to the political situation as well as the condition of women in modern society which is alarmingly concerning. Reality mirrors the dystopian imagination which embodies these socio-political concerns. It launches a dialogue about the future and in doing so, becomes a form of resistance towards it. This paper explores the fascination with dystopian narratives in science-fiction films while drawing parallels between fiction and reality considering the recent pandemic, in order to address the appeal of dystopia as a genre. It presents science-fiction narratives as a necessary step towards the possibility of a better world through the critique of the present, despite the overwhelmingly melancholic imagination the genre embodies.
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