Category: Identity
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July 8, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Happiness is of such importance that the Declaration of Independence uses it as a foundational principle. Considering its importance in my own society, one would think that I thoroughly understand the term. However, it is as slippery today as it has always been. …
February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
November 5, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If you tear a plant out of the ground, more than its roots come up.” – William James Today’s blog takes a peek at William James. Most of the following quotes come from The Pluralistic Universe, but a few are from other works …
September 24, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In a previous post about Euripides’ Bacchae, I posed the question: Why must we watch a play about a vengeful god? Furthermore, why write such a horrific narrative? Obviously, there is no single answer. We see destructive forces all around us, at times …
May 8, 2020 Thanks to Dylan O’Hara, a 2020 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community, Monica Perales writes a new history of borderland life, chronicling the lives and memories of Chicano El Pasoans working at and living near The American Smelting and Mining Company (ASARCO). In …
March 6, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “There’s more truth in myth than in truth.” – Natalie Diaz Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize speech clearly demonstrates her brilliance. She speaks in parables that are simultaneously straightforward, honest, and complicated. In this speech, Morrison delivers a story of some children who approach …
February 7, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all/ things sacred what shall men remember?” ~ Frederick Douglass Since Natasha Trethewey chose this quote to introduce her poem “Native Guard,” I also begin with it. As the centerpiece …
January 17, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “[G]ive me a life/ wherever there is opportunity/ to live, and better life than was my father’s.” – Oedipus the King by Sophocles (translated by David Grene) Last week, I discussed a play from around 430 BC as well as a novel published …
March 29, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Enhance today’s blog by listening to three different musical interpretations of the land: Zuni Rain Dance (30 seconds) “El Corrido de Norte” by Los Halcones De Salitrillo (4 min) “A’ts’ina: Place of Writings on Rock” by Michael Mauldin (1 min) Inscription Trail may …
March 8, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “My men have behaved like women, my women like men!” – Xerxes Strong women have always had a complicated relationship with history. They have been feared, reviled, loved, hated, killed, made into men, adored, and crowned (among other things). Artemisia is one such …
