Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is a Professor of Film and Media in the Department of Film and Media. In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the […]
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema by Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting […]
Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth by Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett Cynthia Willett is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. Julie Willett is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. […]
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