Content tagged "race"
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Posted by CMS/W
CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
Our faculty in the MIT Faculty Newsletter: “Each of us, separately and together, can continue to fight for justice.”
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Posted by Vivek Bald, Andrew Whitacre and Elizabeth Borneman
Podcast: Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Vivek Bald reads from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
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Event: Thursday, May 10, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
Kimberly Juanita Brown will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event.
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Event: Thursday, May 3, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
Scott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.
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Event: Thursday, April 12, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Vibranium Culture: Race, Gender, Technology, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
A discussion of Black Panther at the MIT Black Students’ Union Lounge, co-organized by Annis Rachel Sands (CMS master’s student) and Ángel R. Rodríguez (Harvard University Ph.D. candidate).
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Event: Thursday, March 15, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Visual Representations of Race and Gender: Analyzing “Me” in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Tumblr
Jenny Korn uses critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories to analyze the visual and textual content of the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to reveal constructions of social justice, respectability politics, media biases, racial stereotypes, viral popularity, and hashtag activism on Tumblr.
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Posted by Elise Chen
Podcast, andré carrington: “The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism”
andré carrington’s research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
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Event: Thursday, March 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
andré carrington’s research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
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Posted by Maya Wagoner S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Topics: Center for Urban Pedagogy, Civic Lab for Environmental Action Research, civic technology, Data DiscoTechs, democracy, governance, race, technologyTechnology Against Technocracy: Toward Design Strategies for Critical Community Technology
This thesis develops an intersectional, critical analysis of the field of practice known as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component.
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Posted by Katie Arthur S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Topics: Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, climate change, colonialism, COPINH, economics, hegemony, Indigenous Environmental Network, race, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, The Wretched of the Earth, UK Tar Sands NetworkFrontlines of Crisis, Forefront of Change: Climate Justice as an Intervention into (Neo)colonial Climate Action Narratives and Practices
Radical media strategies, on the streets and on the airwaves, are central to the articulation of climate justice and the contestation of hegemonic meanings of climate action that legitimise colonial violence.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast: Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
Yasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
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Event: Thursday, April 6, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
Yasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Christina Couch
Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
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Event: Thursday, February 23, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast, Kishonna L . Gray: “#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms”
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.