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Reverse Manifest Destiny (Or, The Exiles and Me)

Lou Cornum

My people used to roam all over the place. -Homer, The Exiles As soon as he walked into the bar, I knew he was Native. He knew or knew that I knew and in no time, he was standing next … Continue reading “Reverse Manifest Destiny (Or, The Exiles and Me)”

June 1, 2021 | Features

On The Black Aesthetic Season III: Black Interiors

Yasmina Price

How can a short, single, stable text account for a set of interpersonal, collective, cinematically ephemeral experiences? In mathematics, a fractal is a geometrical figure in which each part has the same statistical character as the whole. The Black Aesthetic, … Continue reading “On The Black Aesthetic Season III: Black Interiors“

August 18, 2020 | Features

Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity I

Christina Sharpe

After the opening shot of a dilapidated house, Beasts of the Southern Wild begins mise-en-scène with a tight close-up of the house’s interior, the screen filled with small brown crossed legs, a cluttered dirty floor, and a small brown hand holding a … Continue reading “Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity I”

September 27, 2013 | Features

Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity II

Jayna Brown

This film should have been a choice text for me; I love post-apocalyptic stories that end badly. But the heaps of critical praise the film has garnered don’t even seem to notice it as a dystopia. “This movie is a … Continue reading “Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity II”

September 27, 2013 | Features

Diary of a Racist Kid

Livia Tenzer

Last weekend I had a first encounter with the multimedia juggernaut that is Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Started online by Jeff Kinney as a web comic, with daily entries exploring the world of middle school angst and pranks, the … Continue reading “Diary of a Racist Kid”

April 1, 2011 | Features

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