From the Big Screen to Real Life: A Review Essay on Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Despite being widely panned by critics, M. Knight Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (a remake of the Nickelodeon cartoon series) managed a solid second place in its opening weekend box office sales behind the latest Twilight flick and ahead of Toy Story 3.
Podcast #119 - Property, Nation, and Citizen in Creek Society, an Interview with David Chang
On this episode we play the first of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.
Podcast #120 - U.S. Colonial Policies and Native Americans, Int. with David Chang
On this episode we play the second of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.
Book Review: Slavery by Another Name
Slavery didn't end with the surrender of Confederate forces in 1865.
Book Review: Labor’s Canvas: American Working Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s
Issues of enduring historical import embodied in the Great Depression are reflected in the enormous quantity of art generated by the Works Project Administration’s Federal Arts Project (WPA/FAP), the largest and longest lasting of the Federal arts projects.
Book Review: Containing (un)American Bodies
Words matter. Especially when a U.S. president utters them, the corporate media echoes them, and other ideological institutions put them into practice as "official discursive tools."
