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...tribe of wild cannibals. We eat everything we can.” The arrival of Walter—a young German tutor who embodies the tormented intellectual that Clive aspires to be and the cultivated manner Louise values so highly—urges the familial culture war to new heights...
...discussion—which centered around a draft of one of Young’s papers titled “Black Ops and Sleeper Cells: Race, the War on Terror and Popular Culture from Above and Below”—explored how rap music and television shows such as “The Unit” and “Sleeper Cells” manifest changing popular conceptions of blackness and how the media can influence such race issues...
...said she is interested in “how the Civil Rights legacy is being understood and reframed after 9/11” and why the Bush administration chose to link the “overcoming of black oppression” with the “so-called war with freedom and democracy...
Audience members suggested she contact more black war veterans, explore popular reaction to the television shows and music discussed in her paper, and also that she address the domestic implications that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on African American soldiers...
...Monitor,” named after the Civil War ironclad ship, is ostensibly a concept album centered on living in our times and questioning identities, with a focus on the lingering importance of the Civil War. The songs run into each other without gaps as the group focus on building a narrative exploring the oppressive ideologies of living in America today, questioning our times with references to the context of the ideological shifts of the Civil War...