My Summer Reading & Viewing List
All the stuff I'm currently (re)reading and viewing. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura, 2007)
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903)
Art on my Mind: Visual Politics (bell hooks, 1995)
"The Space of the Screen" from Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision (Kevin Robins, 1996)
"Introduction: Identity in the Age of the Internet" from Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Shirley Turkle, 1995)
"The Double Consciousness of Du Bois and the 'Mestiza Consciousness' of Anzaldua" (Theresa A. Martinez, 2002).
Borderlands La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldua, 1987)
"The Computer Race Meets Computer Classes: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet" in Race in Cyberspace (Jonathan Sterne, 2000)
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Lisa Nakamura, 2002)
On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley (Gregory Stephens, 1999)
"Cornel West v. Barack Obama" (Melissa Harris-Perry, 2011)
"Will the Real Body Please Stand Up" (Allucquere Rosanne Stone, 1991)
Race and ethnicity stuff from Pew Internet
VIDEO: Dr. Cornel West & Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry on "The Ed Show"
The Matrix series
Wired cover circa 2004
Generation D (for digital) commercial from Worldcom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSJAS7uGDk]
Where My 'Black' Guy Geeks & Nerds At?
Speaking of geek and nerd sh*t. Where are my 'black' male programmers and technologists? I want to hear from you. I know you're out there building databases, websites, and software apps. The world must know about your brilliance and late night single guy parties in front of your computer screens.
Email me at tara (at) mediamakechange (dot) org or leave a comment below. I'm looking for stories for an upcoming article or two.
I'm from a black dot on a white canvas searching for rainbows
This is a multimodal piece I produced for my class in Culture, Media, and Education. I like fusing media and genres (written/spoken poetry, painting, digital video). Suites me quite well. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20187343 w=398&h=224]
I am from long strokes of acrylic bent on canvas sky from blotches of black and blue mixed with white and reds I am from the taste of colors long forbidden Soul food, Black Foot, Irish-American.
I am from somewhere vague like shadows at noon from Negro seeds planted in the fields on hot southern days from an east coast milk truck named “Conley” for short. I am from somewhere whose love managed to give me life.
I am from hard fights and harder hugs from bedrooms of imagination filled with stories of magic carpets and gospel songs. I am from the house on 8th street where herbs grew in gardens instead of mangos.
I am from my mother’s eye Watching and waiting from her spirit longing to be free from the rainbow shirt that covered her belly with me inside.
I am from my father’s hands lost in the strokes of oily painted white mountains, from the heart he held to stop the attack, from hardened pale fingers I touched that were unfamiliar. From the shadow that moved curtains when it was over.
I am from an amalgamation of memories from a black dot on a white canvas searching for rainbows.
#culture #media #education #multimodality
I make videos about stories
This one is inspired by Ann Marie Fleming's illustrated memoir The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Fleming uncovers some of the mysteries surrounding her great-grandfather Long Tack Sam, a famous magician in the 20th century. She uncovers. I continue to search. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/19870165 w=398&h=224]
#storytelling #mixedmedia #spaceelsewhere
My cousin is brilliant
My cousin Tatiyana is only a freshman in high school but she's already showing her brilliance through art and photography. She's going to be one of the most sought after artists of her generation one day. Yes, I said it. I'm proud to say that she's my cuz.
See more of Tatiyana's photography at Media Make Change.
#youth #art #photography #culture