Sharell D. Luckett, David Román, and Isaiah Matthew Wooden, eds. Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration

Modern Drama ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-385
Author(s):  
Kimberly Chantal Welch
Keyword(s):  
Black Communities ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Religious Syncretism

This anthology offers a range of scholarly perspectives on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s use of religious syncretism, emphasis on community, and approach to collaboration. In doing so, it illustrates how McCraney’s work challenges monolithic depictions of Black communities and provides a way to imagine alternative futures for Black subjects.

Embodied Memory and Alternative Futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
Ruby Clementine Kernkamp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Memory

Through the Peace Ride, the Compton Cowboys, as activists and performance artists within the Black Lives Matter movement, materialized the long legacy of Black men and women riders in the United States. These protest bodies on horseback imagine alternative futures for Black communities through embodied memory and a rewriting of the archive.

Scenes from the Margins

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
Kathryn Joan Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Alternative Futures

The scenes in this reflection explore the ways my white, queer, nonbinary body navigates a professional association from the margins under the influence of white supremacy. I confess to shadow feelings of self-importance that continuously creep up as I engage in anti-racist work and consider how this presence of white righteousness must be relentlessly undermined and destabilized as we work to consider new and alternative futures for (organizational) communication studies.

A IMPORTÂNCIA DE ROGER BASTIDE COMO UM “DIVISOR DE ÁGUAS” PARA OS ESTUDOS DAS RELIGIÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 005
Author(s):  
Sergio Sezino Douets Vasconcelos ◽  
Aerton Alexander de Carvalho Silva
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
African Religions ◽  
Black Person ◽  
Religious Syncretism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Brazilian Studies ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Este artigo busca compreender a importância das pesquisas de Roger Bastide, como um provocador da virada epistemológica nos estudos afro-brasileiros, marcando um novo lugar de percepção, a partir do qual se vem buscando analisar as ricas e complexas redes de construção no seio das religiões e religiosidades afro-brasileiras. Bastide foi o primeiro pesquisador no Brasil que buscou, de forma interdisciplinar, compreender a construção das religiões africanas no Brasil, a partir da perspectiva do próprio negro. O presente trabalho busca apresentar alguns momentos dos estudos afro-brasileiros sobre o sincretismo afro-católico, como cenário para compreender o salto qualitativo que a pesquisa de Roger Bastide provocou nos estudos sobre o sincretismo afro-católico no Brasil.Palavras-chave: Roger Bastide, Sincretismo afro-católico, Sincretismo religiosoTHE IMPORTANCE OF ROGER BASTIDE AS A "TURNING POINT" FOR THE STUDIES OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONSAbstract:This article aims to understand the researches of Roger Bastide, as a provocateur of the “epistemological turn”, in Afro-Brazilian studies, marking a new perception from which one has been searching analyzing the rich and complex network of construction within religions and Afro-Brazilian religiosities. Bastide was the first researcher in Brazil who sought, in an interdisciplinary way, to understand the construction of African religions in Brazil, from the perspective of the black person/black himself. The present study seeks to present some moments of Afro-Brazilian studies on Afro-Catholic syncretism as a scenario to understand the qualitative improvement that Roger Bastide's research has provoked in the studies on Afro-Catholic syncretism in Brazil.Keywords: Roger Bastide, Afro-Catholic Syncretism, Religious Syncretism

Biodiversity and Landscape Planning: Alternative Futures for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Steinitz ◽  
Michael Binford ◽  
Paul Cote ◽  
Thomas Edwards ◽  
Ervin Jr. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Alternative Futures

Racial Justice and Criminal Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Valls
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Black Neighborhoods

The criminal justice system in the United States both reflects racial inequality in the broader society and contributes to it. The overrepresentation of African Americans among those in prison is a result of both the conditions in poor black neighborhoods and racial bias in the criminal justice system. The American system of criminal justice today is excessively punitive, when compared to previous periods and to other countries, and its harsh treatment disproportionately harms African Americans. In addition, those released from prison face a number of obstacles to housing, employment, and other prerequisites of decent life, and the concentration of prisoners and ex-prisoners in black communities does much to perpetuate racial inequality.

From Urban Renewal to the BeltLine: Atlanta’s Use of Public Health Narratives to Reshape the City

2021 ◽  
pp. 153851322098415
Author(s):  
L. Katie OConnell ◽  
Nisha Botchwey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
City Agencies ◽  
The City

Since the early days of the planning profession, city agencies relied on a public health crisis narrative as a rationale for mass displacement efforts that targeted black communities. Over time, as cities gentrified with white, middle-class residents, the narrative shifted toward the city as a place of health. This article compares Atlanta’s redevelopment narratives from urban renewal to its current citywide greenway project, the BeltLine, to understand how city officials utilized public health language to rationalize displacement and how the narratives ran counter to residents’ lived experience.

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