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Recent Work (2020)
From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.
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    Publications (2017)

    In November 2016, in the wake of a presidential election in the United States that ratified various forms of exclusion, including white nationalism, the Institute expanded its mission to build power to challenge state-sponsored violence against targeted bodies and communities.  In particular we became concerned with the role of the university on the front-lines of resistance against Trumpism.

    With this in mind, the Institute issued a call, Teach.Organize.Resist. on the occasion of the presidential inauguration.  January 18th, or #J18, became a day of education and protest at various universities and colleges in the United States and beyond. 

    Through lectures, assemblies, musical performance, and artistic practice, #J18 was a collective insistence that places of teaching and learning not bear silent witnesses to oppression and hate. We share this curation of #J18 activities to commemorate the project of Teach.Organize.Resist. The collection includes homework assignments, academic essays, artwork, poems, freedom songs, video clips of talks and theater, posters, and more.  They allow us to analyze Trumpism, to articulate practices of resistance, to expand our curriculum, and to state our values.

      Cover page: Teach.Organize.Resist.
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