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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"racial memory"”.
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… A Deep Map</em>. This map uncovers marginalized racial memory and locality along the tracks. This project concludes with an echo of the introduction, geocritically exploring Penn Station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and how to move toward a geopraxis of public humanities work.</p>
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
… work, then, is as much about the production of memory and countermemory as it is baseball. My project draws on scholarship that explores the construction of racial memory and countermemory, allowing me to focus on pivotal times and places in baseball’s long imperial history (from the Civil War, …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… the origin of a myth which exists in his 'racial memory.' As an Indian, Set must discover the importance of non-textual spatiality and not the spaces contained within and influenced by written texts such as the very one Momaday creates to depict this character. The term non-textual …
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
… Sekula, the United States); in chapter two, the racial memory and remnants of colonialism (Santu Mofokeng, South Africa); and in chapter three, the trauma of civil war and subsequent conflicts (Akram Zaatari, Lebanon and Chan-kyong Park, South Korea). My focus is on photographic projects—a …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
The ways in which white Americans understand the racial landscape and their own racial identities are not well understood. Through the lens of the racial past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic …