• Abolishing the Academy

    By Imagining America

    September 25, 2020

    By Caroline Cheung

    As an activist-scholar, I have dedicated my research, pedagogy and praxes to dismantling the prison-industrial complex (PIC) and the discourses that normalize, sustain and even celebrate it.

  • Seeding Stories

    By Imagining America

    September 24, 2020

    By Julie Feng

    Rhetorics, which is the art and study of discourse, are seeds for social justice. These seeds are words, phrases, and narratives; they are language and text; they are image and art and iconography…

  • Intersecting Black Histories, Art Practice, and Information History

    By Imagining America

    September 24, 2020

    By Courtney Richardson

    My scholarship involves imagining new ways of representing Black American experiences with the intent to encourage reviews (and new views) of known and less known stories from my cultural heritage.

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    Mitigating Ghostly URLS: Or, What Community Organizing and Database Administration Can Teach Us about the Public and Digital Humanities

    By Imagining America

    September 23, 2020

    By Adrienne Adams

    The rhetoric of “access” undergirds the logic of professor and college student-created projects on digital platforms like Scalar and Omeka…

  • Notes on the Next University

    By Imagining America

    September 23, 2020

    By Trisha Remetir

    These days, in between episodes of zoom university, deadlines, and bouts of anxiety from all that 2020 has brought us, I’ve been sleeping and dreaming.

  • Fabrics of Empire: Textile Art as a Counter-history of Colonialism

    By Imagining America

    September 22, 2020

    By Amrut Mishra

    A chaise longue, wingback armchair, side chair, end table, and an expansive curtain—the stage is set for artist Renée Green’s 1992 installation Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile.

  • singing in public

    By Imagining America

    September 21, 2020

    By David Chavannes

    some publics can’t be public. being public transmuted us into lightning rods. toilets. bruises. punch lines.

  • We Are Just One

    By Imagining America

    September 21, 2020

    By Víctor Manuel Rubio Carrillo

    In this video, I explore the nature of my environment through a musical and visual production. We face great challenges, and the impact of COVID-19 has led humanity to reflect on the underlying societal injustices and violence that sadly become normalized.