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Blue Ruins: LaToya Ruby Frazier in Two Parts
Full text linkThis review considers LaToya Ruby Frazier\u27s work in The Notion of Family, LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Silver Eye Center for Photography, September 21– November 18, 2017 and On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford, LaToya Ruby Frazier, The August Wilson Center, September 22– December 31, 2017.
Letícia Parente in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Los Angeles/Latin America)
Full text linkThis exhibit review considers three separate exhibitions that were part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Los Angeles/Latin America) for how their simultaneous showcase of works by Letícia Parente (Brazil, 1930–1991) effectively revealed multiple layers of meaning in her work, while acting as a through line between exhibitions
The Invention of Race in the Middle Ages
Full text linkBook Review: Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 504 pp.; 10 ills. Hardcover, £34.99 (9781108422789)
Presenting Race: Institutional Contexts and Critiques
Full text linkThis special issue was inspired by the inaugural Consortium Workshop, Race-ing the Museum, funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The contributions are mostly drawn from the participants of the workshop and their collaborators and students on projects begun after the workshop. Coming from anthropology, art, communication, education, and theatre arts, the articles in this edition are extremely diverse, taking a broad understanding of institutions. Like the workshop, this issue seeks to contribute to dialogues between fields surrounding issues of race, representation, and institutions
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
Full text linkBook Review: Karen Duffek and Tania Willard, eds. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories. With contributions by Glenn Alteen, Marcia Crosby, Jimmie Durham et al. Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing and Museum of Anthropology at UBC, 2016. 182 pp.; 85 ills (chiefly color). Hardcover $45.00 (9781927958513)
Historical Contemporaneity and Contemporaneous Historicity: Creation of Meaning and Identity in Postwar Trauma Narratives
Full text linkThis paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction. Analyzing Jewish-American novels from three generations—survivors, their children, and their grandchildren—the author traces the trajectories and changing perspectives in the narrative productions of these three generations. The analysis uses Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma to analyze generational trajectories in identity formations