public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & ethnicity

01 December 2006

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

Trinh T. Minh-ha essay

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

21 November 2006

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

18 November 2006

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

by 3 others
large collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

16 November 2006

13 November 2006

Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology

by 2 others
large portal, includes cultural geography, ethnic studies, visual arts, postmodern anthropology

www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site

large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"

11 November 2006

Homi Bhabha - Excerpts

excerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material

06 November 2006

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on

The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference

by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."

02 November 2006

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

01 November 2006

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography

21 October 2006

18 October 2006

Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication

left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus