During a recent six-hour grilling, a new reality emerged: Attitude now gives license to punish others — a way of being that re-concretizes a pigmentocracy’s values.
—R. Wayne Branch, PhD
CFP: “Scotland 30 years after Trainspotting”
Études écossaises, UGA éditions, Université Grenoble Alpes
This issue of Études écossaises seeks to take TRAINSPOTTING’s unique depiction of Scottish society as the starting point for an
investigation into the nature of contemporary Scottish life & how it has evolved between 1993 & 2023. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2024
"This article outlines a chronology for understanding the cultural importance in Britain of this voyage, from the New England chroniclers to the postcolonial critiques of historians today. In between, it offers a thematic analysis of the different groups which could use the story in their construction of morality and identity, from Romanticists and abolitionists to Anglo-American diplomats and civic boosters."
How did a #Georgia Klan leader transform himself into a faux-Native American from #Texas? A recent book uncovers the untold story of Forrest and Asa Carter, who were actually one and the same.
Looking for new additions to your TBR pile or gift list? LitHub's Natalie Zutter is recommending seven sci-fi and fantasy books that are published this month, including Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's debut novel, "Dazzling," which is about two girls coming of age at a Nigerian boarding school, and Geoff Ryman's "Him," which muses on what would have happened if Jesus Christ was born a girl.
"Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone" by Kavita Singh (2015).
"But think for a moment of the history of museums. Think of the way their collections have been built, and the purposes they have served. Think of the violent encounters that often lay behind the collecting of curiosities in the age of exploration; or think of the museums built by missionaries to display pagan gods wrenched away from natives. Think of the vast collections built (and the ways these were built) during the age of colonialism, with entire monuments transported across the seas and re-erected in museum galleries. Think of the nations transformed by revolutions, where treasures were violently wrested away from the church and presented as desacralized avatars in museums".
"Culture Machine Liquid Books is a series of experimental digital ‘books’ published under the (gratis/libre) conditions of both open editing and free content. As such, you are free to compose, rewrite, edit, annotate, translate, tag, add to, remix, reformat, reinvent and reuse any of the books in the series, or produce parallel versions of them - and what's more you are expressly invited and encouraged to do so. (We would appreciate it if you would tell us about it if you do so away from this site.)"
Deeper and deeper into #Japanese#culture and people, I went into the #Kyoto Imperial Palace for a special performance of #Gagaku (雅楽), imperial court #music and #dances of #Asian mainland origin that have been performed there since the Heian Period over a thousand years ago. An acquaintance who is a Shintō priestess (see photo) from Nara played two types of traditional flutes that sustain an eerie or higher-worldly atmosphere. The relatively slow and deliberate movements of the mostly male dancers in many-layered gorgeous contumes stand in contrast with the frenetic tempo of modern #entertainment. We experience #time as the pace of transformation, and that brief time transfixed with the Gagaku performance was but an interlude from an ancient era in a workday preparing for university classes and a keynote address. Photos will have to suffice to evoke the special atmosphere.
We’re thrilled to share that this image by Jordan Vonderhaar, from his photo essay “Braving ‘La Bestia’” in our July/August 2023 print issue, was named one of the top 100 photos of the year by TIME magazine. (1/2)
Sophie Kemp grew up in Schenectady, New York, where Kurt Vonnegut, her favorite writer as a teen, lived for a time after WWII. She writes for the Paris Review about visiting Vonnegut's "charmingly shabby" house on a road trip with her father, who bought her "Slaughterhouse-Five" and sparked her love of the author.
The second season of "High on the Hog," which charts how the momentous changes of the 20th century informed Black Americans' relationship with food, lands on Netflix tomorrow. Civil Eats spoke to co-hosts Stephen Satterfield and Dr. Jessica B. Harris about what the series covers, from food's role in the Great Migration to the Black Panther Party's free breakfast program for children.
Earlier this week, a 24-cent stamp sold at auction for $2 million. Smithsonian Magazine has the story of how the "Inverted Jenny" was made, why it's so rare, and the incredible places some of the stamps have visited, from the Postal Museum in Washington to the inside of a vacuum cleaner.
Barbra Streisand's memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," is out now. She spoke to the BBC about growing up in poverty, getting her start in a Manhattan gay bar, and phoning Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain that the iPhone couldn't pronounce her name. "I guess that's one perk of fame."
The Scottish Traditional Music Archive Directory is now live! 🥳
The directory brings together organisations in and outside Scotland with collections of Scottish traditional music.
Users can identify collection holders, find information on their catalogues, get in touch with them, and compare collections from different organisations.
"This article offers the examples from Sintashta SM and Kamennyj Ambar-5, along with Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates from KA-5's kurgan burials, as new information for debate over both the timing of the introduction of light vehicles on the Eurasian Steppe and, more generally, technological innovations across Eurasia."
Paul Crenshaw says there was a pervasive sense of fear for kids growing up in 1980s America, born of stranger danger, the murder of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh's son Adam, and the Satanic panic. He explores these ideas in this essay for Salon; he has also written a new book of essays, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils."
For 25 years, Christine Coulson wrote description labels for The Metropolitan Museum of Art — basic details, plus 75 words about each work. Her novel, "One Woman Show," is inspired by these experiences. For LitHub, she writes about the stories she shared, what makes a good label, and why she rarely reads them. "Museums are for looking, and your individual response to a work of art holds all the magic," she says.
A new publication from UT Press provides a troubling twist on the vow “until death do us part.” Often overlooked in other tellings of the events, Unheard Witness reveals the story of Kathy Leissner Whitman, one of the first victims of the UT #Austin Tower sniper, murdered by her husband before he killed so many others.