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Wallace Benton Oral History Interview Records
No full textWallace Benton of Alexandria, Virginia was interviewed by Ella Dietrich, Sewanee student, on November 3, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing his personal experiences regarding “White Flight” and his experiences regarding BLM and the Episcopal Church. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview
Stephen Myers Ferreira Oral History Interview Records
No full textStephen Myers Ferreira of Memphis, Tennessee was interviewed by Naeem Mangum, a Sewanee student, on November 20th, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included Myers Ferreira’s upbringing in Memphis and the marginalization of his family in McGhee, Mississippi. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Stewart Buchanan Oral History Interview Records
No full textStewart Buchanan of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Ella Dietrich, a Sewanee student, on October 30th, 2023, in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing how his background has affected his perspectives on the movement. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Audrey Damare Oral History Interview Records
No full textAudrey Damare of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Selena Piercy, a Sewanee
student, on November 8, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing Damare’s experience in High School with race as a part of Justice and Equity for Students, a student-led organization on race at her private Catholic high school. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Kaleb Seay Oral History Interview Records
No full textKaleb Seay of Sewanee, Tennessee, was interviewed by Walker Robinson, a Sewanee student, on October 30th, 2023, in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included how the Black Lives Matter Movement has influenced Seay’s views on race and race relations. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Yasumasa Morimura's Futago: An Exit and Re-entrance into the Canon of Art History
No full textYasumasa Morimura (b. 1951) is a Japanese artist who challenges the dominant paradigm of Euro- American artworks. His artworks express his subjective feelings of being stuck inside the realm of Japanese art history within the canon of Eurocentric art historical ideologies. He focuses his works primarily in the medium of photography in a hybrid format with oil paint on his physical body, where he acknowledges the difficulties of sexuality, gender, and culture. The image that this paper focuses on is Portrait (Futago, “Twins”), 1988, photograph. This photograph is a recreation of Manet’s Olympia, where Morimura questions the racial and gender roles in the original painting and challenges the ideas of the male versus female gaze. In the production of this artwork, Morimura tried to Orientalize ideas within “Western” Art. How is the fame of this work of art re-Orientalized the artist himself? This paper focus on the stereotypes of the gender binary and the racial fetishism represented in the instance of the maid in the background. This paper answers the following questions: How does Yasumasa Morimura challenge the traditional ideas of the art historical colonist regime through the representation of the feminine? How have these ideas evolved throughout art history?
The artist plays the role of both the maid and the poser in the image, expressing the fluidity of his own gender. Japan’s role within the world during this period, called The Lost Decade, was inherently suffering from economic and social difficulties.As a result of this, the productions in visual culture directly referenced the inferiority the Japanese were experiencing compared to the Euro-American West. This paper will argue that through Morimura’s efforts to challenge the Western art historical ‘canon’ by appropriating a canonical image and the fame that arose from the production of the image, he reinserted himself into the canon from which he originally wished to break free from. This illustrates the circular logic through Morimura falling victim to the canon despite his efforts to dispute it through gendered binaries, race, and appropriationArt History Departmen
Alexes Castro Oral History Interview Records
No full textAlexes Castro of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Selena Piercy, a Sewanee student, on November 19, 2023, on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing his upbringing in Houston, Texas and his experience attending a YES Prep Charter School . We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Why Investing in Companies That Consistently Deliver Affordable Products to Consumers Is Worthwhile
Full text linkWhy Investing in Companies That Consistently Deliver Affordable Products to Consumers Is Worthwhile
Anna McCasland, C’23
Dr. Huarui Jing, Assistant Professor of Finance
Department of Economics and Finance: The University of the South
It is a common assumption that high-growth stocks are the best options for short-term investment periods. Given the tumultuous macroeconomic events that have occurred over the past few years including COVID-19 pressures, inflation struggles, global conflicts, and beyond, it is important to take advantage of areas in the market where there is relative constancy and security. Through observing big-picture trends, I have seen the recurring trend of companies with large consumer loyalties in the retail sector remaining resilient in the wake of recent macroeconomic pressures. In multiple cases, this loyalty stems from the ability of leading retail companies to keep prices low for their customers. Therefore, the aim of my presentation is to illustrate why companies focused on delivering affordable consumer products are healthy investments. To test my argument, I will center my analysis on Walmart and its partner companies since Walmart’s main mission is to guarantee low prices for consumers. Besides Walmart, I will explore the performances of J.B. Hunt (JBHT), Tyson (TSN), General Mills (GIS), Proctor and Gamble (PG), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Roku (ROKU), Techtronic Industries (TTNDY), Green Dot (GDOT), and Plug Power Inc. (PLUG). Through employing the diversification effect, I will narrow my analysis by shrinking my portfolio down to five stocks. Then, I will apply the Portfolio Theory Model, Capital Asset Pricing Model, and Chen Roll Ross Model to look at the health of this portfolio from different angles. By the end of my presentation, I will reveal the investment structure that proves to be the best illustration of portfolio optimization under the scenario of tracking these stocks from January 17th to April 12th and investing $1 million into the stock market.Dr. Huarui Jin
Akwanza Magnum Oral History Interview Records
No full textAkwanza Mangum of Dunwoody, Georgia was interviewed by Naeem Mangum, a Sewanee student, on November 26th, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included: discussing Mangum’s upbringing and being Black and Baha'i. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Satire as a Mode of Resistance Against the American Post-Racial Utopian Impulse in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One
No full textIn 2009, Colson Whitehead published an op-ed in The New York Times titled “The Year of Living Postracially,” a blistering, satirical attack on false allegations of a post-racial American society following Obama’s election. At the same time, Whitehead was working on a novel that sought to expand upon the forms and ideas from that article: Zone One. In Zone One, Whitehead hides a similar, subtler critique highlighting the dangers of the post-racial utopian impulse in America within the subtext of what appears to be “just another zombie novel.” He resists the allegorical apparatus of capture that is synonymous with the speculative fiction genre by satirizing an apocalyptic zombie dystopia and using that satire to speak out against the exclusion of Blackness in American futurity, the post-racial fantasy, and capitalism. By conducting close readings of the text and putting them into conversation with literary theorists Fredric Jameson, Lee Edelman, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, this essay will explore Whitehead’s use of satire as a counter-allegorical mode of reading and its engagement of a symptomatic self reading targeting the complacency of colorblind racism in white upper-middle class American circles. Additionally, it will contend with the real world obstacles to both criticizing the post-racial myth as well as encouraging such a satirical reading, focusing mainly on the American capitalist tradition, a resurgence of racially motivated polarization and violence coexisting with the negative symptoms of colorblind racism, and the literary publishing industry’s role in perpetuating readings that distract readers from interrogating flawed institutional systems