"These statues are not examples of racism, they are its form."
Excellent essay by @nickmirzoeff on the power of sculptural conventions to normalize racism. Applies to Confederate monuments as well as to James Earle Fraser's Teddy Roosevelt.
https://t.co/D9MJJDPkcd
The San Antonio Christopher Columbus statue in a downtown park is being permanently removed this morning after more than a decade of calls and protests to remove it. #Columbus@TPRNews
Andrés Aguyar was an enslaved Uruguayan man who, once free, fought for the creation of the Roman Republic. While Rome's Gianiculum Hill is filled with busts of the Republic's fallen martyrs, Aguyar is notably absent. Sign for his long overdue recognition!
https://t.co/PHLFDiuWnm
You 👏 can't 👏do 👏that. 👏
Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson is in violation of the Constitution and needs to retract this order immediately.
https://t.co/ijb0GbIUn9
My therapist gently suggested to me earlier today that perhaps some of my self-reliance + independence is rooted in not trusting others to come through for me. And well...it’s all I’ve been able to think about.
One of my closest friends is the brilliant art historian Huey Copeland. I wrote him weeks ago after I had a student who wanted more reading material on black artists & race. Huey’s book is hundreds of dollars but he just texted me to say they made it free! https://t.co/3tJYK9vjBv
@ArtHistoryElon@CURinAction@evangatti Words can't do justice to how excited I'll be to see this thesis published!! Fully aware of what a unique opportunity this is for undergraduate work and no doubts that it wouldn't have been possible without @ArtHistoryElon
Our own Lindsay Maldari's @CURinAction presentation, "Dismantling an Art History of Eugenics: Fascist Propaganda & Visual Rhetoric in 'La difesa della razza'", will be published in the NCUR Proceedings journal! The paper is based on Lindsay's Honors Thesis, mentored by @evangatti
@ElonDining Next up, Lindsay Maldari (@LMaldari) -- who is also a major in @ElonPolitics and an #ElonHonors student -- presents, “Spectral Spectacle: The Affective Turn Beyond Absence and Presence”.