I just watched the Miami Heat and Charlotte game. Fourth in the series. Miami lost although it was a good fight until that final buzzer. I am still smiling because it is not over. I am also smiling because I am so proud of the students in my “Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America Music”… Continue reading on music without reservations et cetera
Departure. This is the theme for this week’s “Gender, Race and Urban Space” graduate course. It is fitting as this is our last week with assigned readings. Before us are several writings that invite discussion on what it means for human beings to move to, through and away from the United States, and cities,… Continue reading of bodies, souls and the “city”
Artist Phoebe Beasley was a huge inspiration last evening during her talk at Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center. She brought several collages with her rather than refer to them via a Powerpoint. Beasley, whose work is in many public and private collections, discussed her life experiences and approach to art. She is deeply interested… Continue reading Phoebe Beasley’s talk (and graduating senior) inspire
I am excited about having dinner with Artist Phoebe Beasley and several colleagues tonight. She will be speaking tomorrow at 5:30 pm at Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Avenue. Beasley’s serigraph “Langston Hughes Suite: Mother to Son” (1998), part of a collaborative project with the late Maya Angelou, is slated for inclusion… Continue reading Artist Phoebe Beasley visits Tuscaloosa
Miami is once again to the city to which the graduate students in “Gender, Race and Urban Space,” an interdisciplinary course, turn. Writings by Paul S. George, Morton D. Winsberg, Alejandro Portes, Mark H. Rose and Raymond Mohl permit us, above all, to compare the settlement of people of African descent in South Florida to… Continue reading Miami: A Closer Look
This week, the graduate students in my “Gender, Race and the Urban Space” class will turn to my home state – Florida – to explore all of sorts of issues, including how the past always seems to pose amazing tensions with the present. A rundown of the “texts” before us: Gregory W. Bush’s article on… Continue reading on frontiers (past-present) and surveillance
