Exploring how Black youth are reshaping game design to dismantle stereotypes and spark social change In the early 2000s, digital gaming rose to cultural and economic prominence. Communities of color, however, and especially Black youth, were largely excluded from gaming culture. The rare Black character in games tended to reinforce ......
Manifesting Spirits & Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century America
Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movements The Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American religious history. During the 1840s, members of United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing embarked on an audacious project of ......
Manifesting Spirits & Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century America
Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movements The Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American religious history. During the 1840s, members of United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing embarked on an audacious project of ......
Place and Politics in Massachusetts's Ten-Year Fight Over the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coast An hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, a barrier island off the Massachusetts coast. Parker River is a nationally renowned birding destination and the second ......
Place and Politics in Massachusetts's Ten-Year Fight Over the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coast An hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, a barrier island off the Massachusetts coast. Parker River is a nationally renowned birding destination and the second ......
Five Black Women in Art, Performance, and Resistance, 1937-1965
Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era In 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featured performer Hazel Scott. Appalled by the racially demeaning and stereotypical depictions of Black women extras and ......
Five Black Women in Art, Performance, and Resistance, 1937-1965
Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era In 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featured performer Hazel Scott. Appalled by the racially demeaning and stereotypical depictions of Black women extras and ......
The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights? Originally published in 2005, Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 was the first book-length study of Dorothy West's work, providing a rich and insightful profile of one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.? Although West ......
When Where the Wild Grape Grows was published in 2005 by the University of Massachusetts Press, it was the first book-length critical study of Dorothy West. Since then, the publication of more volumes on West and her circle testify to popular and academic interest in under-represented artists of the Harlem Renaissance, many of whom appeared first ......
