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Living in a house with five other women, I am not often alone.  Yet this week, I was able to return to my hometown in Hingham Massachusetts for a couple days.  Because of this break from my communal housing, I was able to fully immerse myself into the “Body, Noise, Space” exercise.  Over the summer, I had…

In “Which Way is Down? Improvisations on Black Mobility” by Jason King, many claims are made about the relationships between falling and ascension, verticality and the horizontal, and the intersections of masculinity, activism, queerness, and shame. King uses the extended metaphor of a ladder to convey his ideas about shame and social mobility, elaborating on…

Beyoncé’s 2016 “Formation” music video includes a montage of scenes invoking both modern and historical settings. One image I’d like to pay particular attention to and which I discussed in an earlier journal entry is the parlor scene in which Beyoncé and several other women dance in the hallway of a 19th century southern home wearing…

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I would like to discuss question 4, which is: Does the difference in genre and/or medium affect how we understand the dancing and lyrical performances of the music video “This is America” versus how we understand it in the film Guava Island?  How? Or Why not? I want to think through this question because I…

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Week One Journal Prompt In chapter 6 of Houston Baker’s seminal book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker suggests that we can think about the history of black resistance, especially black resistance through black expressive texts, as falling in one of two categories.  Black resistance, Baker suggests (via a curious appeal to natural history), deploys as either…