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The Black Oceanic Imagination in Rivers Solomon’s “The Deep”
by Aris Kian
“In their ambitious second novella, Solomon explores questions of remembrance and well-being and considers answers that could only be found within a fictional landscape.”
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Review: “Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art”
by Joseph Richards
“Thus, the biggest contribution of this book is to put economic and aesthetic theory together, to see what happens when the aesthetic is subjected to a Marxist analysis.”
“Expertise” as Systematized Historical Amnesia: Springborg’s Egypt as a Case Study
by Zeyad el Nabolsy
“Overall, one can say that this book rests on key distortions of recent Egyptian history, and it is primarily valuable as a case study in how expertise in the service of imperialism is constituted.”
Pandemic Teaching Reflections, Not All Rainbows
by Andrew Joseph Pegoda
“Factors of pedagogy fully considered, I have certainly had some exceptional online students and many other students producing quality, thoughtful work, but for me, virtual teaching has not been as fulfilling. There is little contact with others. Students struggle. They really struggle online. “
Review: The United States of War” by David Vine
by Fabrizio Martino
“Vine’s book allows the reader to have a full understanding of the evolution of American imperialism…”
Review: Reflections on Postcolonialism
By Bryant Scott
“Above all, postcolonialism remains a heterogenous and eclectic body of thought that has proven widely adaptable in providing new angles on all sorts of phenomena, from the origins of modernity to neoliberalism and globalization.”
In Vitro: Narrative Essay
By Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman
“This film is a surrealist dream, the way it plays with time and memory. Trauma stays in the body, always there tucked between your stomach and your ribs.”
Review: “The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price” by Rae Linda Brown
by A. Kori Hill
“The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price is a much needed addition to scholarship on Black composers, American music history, Black women’s creative lives, and Florence Price herself.”
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