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"Lauren Stockmon Brown is a PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Theatre and Performance English and Comparative Literature Department. Lauren received a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a former scholarship recipient of The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, Senegal ‘20. Here, she taught English as a second language while continuing research on Pan-Africanism and cultural identity for her podcast, "My Colorful Nana.” She is also passionate about storytelling and movement building for youth writing and advocacy."
Primarily interested in taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring critical global issues. Trained in graduate-level courses highlighting the politics of visual arts, innovative education practices, and language teaching. Taught by other scholars as part of an international roster of researchers from across Columbia University and New York City.
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Racial inequality is an integral part of South African law and society. Therefore, it cannot be easily reversed through legislation. Through a series of theoretical analysis, we can explore other functions and patterns that Miriam Makeba used to challenge white supremacy; with the hope of achieving economic, social, and political progress
Racial inequality is an integral part of South African law and society. Therefore, it cannot be easily reversed through legislation. Through a series of theoretical analysis, we can explore other functions and patterns that Miriam Makeba used to challenge white supremacy; with the hope of achieving economic, social, and political progress for all people.
It is crucial to situate an analysis of Makeba’s mid-twentieth century performances in a broader framework detailing the development of black performance theory. Emphasizing the entangled nature of these political institutions through a performance studies framework will offer an alternative way to examine the historical complexities of conflict and memory with an equally multifaceted approach
This paper through a visual analysis of the First World Festival of Negro Arts and Josephine Baker takes an ambitious, diachronic approach to the question of world-making by asking how and why the famous danse sauvage performance of Josephine Baker informed the cultural politics of post-independence Negritude and pan-Africanism, as repres
This paper through a visual analysis of the First World Festival of Negro Arts and Josephine Baker takes an ambitious, diachronic approach to the question of world-making by asking how and why the famous danse sauvage performance of Josephine Baker informed the cultural politics of post-independence Negritude and pan-Africanism, as represented at the Dakar festival of 1966. The paper works with concepts developed by Adom Getachew and Stuart Hall to posit a connection between these two events
This literary analysis and visual examination revolves around the performance of the traditional African dance style, gumboot. This essay asks “what is at stake” politically and socially, in contemporary representations of masculinity throughout the African diaspora.This essay explores how dance has continued to act as a unique space in
This literary analysis and visual examination revolves around the performance of the traditional African dance style, gumboot. This essay asks “what is at stake” politically and socially, in contemporary representations of masculinity throughout the African diaspora.This essay explores how dance has continued to act as a unique space in which men of African descent are free to create and express their own individuality as well as collectivism.
In this paper, I will explore an “alternative way of thinking” that demonstrates
“how” singer and songwriter India Arie is using the lyrics in her song, “I Am Not My Hair” (2006) as a tool to show the multitudes of Blackness in an American context. This paper examines a pop-culture moment that asks–– how is “I Am Not My Hair” a potentia
In this paper, I will explore an “alternative way of thinking” that demonstrates
“how” singer and songwriter India Arie is using the lyrics in her song, “I Am Not My Hair” (2006) as a tool to show the multitudes of Blackness in an American context. This paper examines a pop-culture moment that asks–– how is “I Am Not My Hair” a potential case study that can be investigated as 1) a contemporary rejection to the white gaze, and 2) a “precursor” to the 2019 CROWN Act?(“Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act).
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