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Is the USA Post-Racial? Towards an explanation of the Obama ‘Miracle’ [audio]
Most people in the world have heralded the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the USA as a monumental event. They believe his election represents a watershed moment and a definitive shift in race relations. In contrast, I argue that his election is the product of 40 years of racial transition that have sedimented a new racial regime…
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The Oral History Interview and its Literary Representations [audio]Alessandro Portelli teaches American literature at Sapienza University in Rome (where there is an active anomalous wave student movement for education). He has through out his publications and labour of memory work emphasised remembering as an event, active listening, and has taken seriously creative error, invention, myth, even lies – especially when they are widespread.
Interviews
Mapping Fashion, Cities, Identities and the World Fashion ConquestIn her first solo show, WESSIELING presented ‘Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities’ at the AVA Gallery in London. The work comprised six Chinese dresses (qipao); otherwise identical, each dress had the fashionable streets of different fashion metropolises printed on the textile.
Reviews
‘You are not welcome here’: post-apartheid negrophobia and real aliens in Blomkamp’s District 9When District 9 (D9) was released in August 2009, the film was an immediate box office hit in several countries. This was much to the surprise of critics, reviewers and bloggers, who seemed astonished by the fact that a science…
Commons
European colonial memory on sell: Italian-Libyan agreements and the rejection of migrantsOn the 10th of June Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, leader of Libya, arrived in Rome for the first time since he ousted the monarchy in 1969. He addressed Italians saying: “you had apologised for what happened and that is what allowed me to be able to come here today”.
