All Outputs (6)

The New Left wasn't so new (2013)
Journal Article

Examination of relationship of Old Left to New Left in U.S. political history and validity of Old Left and New Left as concepts.

The advancement of 'Science': James McKeen Cattell and the networks of prestige and authority, 1894-1915 (2013)
Journal Article

Remembering slavery on screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936) (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar ci... Read More about Remembering slavery on screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936).

Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture (2013)
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This article examines the visual culture of the twenty-first century antislavery movement, arguing that it adapts four main icons of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionism for its contemporary campaigns against global slavery and human tra... Read More about Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture.

Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction (2013)
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This short introduction provides a brief overview of the collection, by addressing the main historiographical and theoretical concerns that unite the individual contributions and by placing the essays in comparative, inter-American and interdisciplin... Read More about Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction.

Cinematic “pas de deux”: the dialogue between Maya Deren's experimental filmmaking and Talley Beatty's black ballet dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) (2013)
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A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) is a collaborative enterprise between avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and African American ballet dancer Talley Beatty. Study is significant in experimental film history – it was one of three films by Deren... Read More about Cinematic “pas de deux”: the dialogue between Maya Deren's experimental filmmaking and Talley Beatty's black ballet dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945).