Intersectionalize It

Olive Onyekwelu

This is a podcast focusing on assessing and sharing the intersectionality among cultures and a wide variety of other topics. These episodes will be more historical and researched based to support the origins and pioneers of BIPOC influence in what we know as to be predominantly white spaces. Knowing history is important and, what’s even more important, is looking at historical events through a holistic lens. There is interconnectedness across cultures, communities, and identities that need to be shared within society because in some way everything connects.

Episodes

  1. 05/08/2021

    Bonus Episode: Mock Interview

    Class Assignment

  2. 12/15/2020

    Minstrelsy in African American Films: Do You See It?

    Minstrelsy began in the early 1800s, a type of American entertainment that depicted and mocked people of African descent through comic skits, a variety of acts, dancing, and music performances. The first minstrel shows were performed by white people that would blacken their faces with shoe polish. These performances would display the derogative qualities of Black people being lazy, ignorant, hypersexual, or thieves. Thomas Dartmouth Rice is known as one of the first people to popularize minstrelsy through his “Jim Crow” character. By the mid-1800s, minstrelsy was booming and quickly became a worldwide phenomenon that an entertainment subindustry was created. Minstrelsy began to receive high disapproval from society, especially the Black community, in the early 1900s during the Civil Rights Movement. However, the toxic art form was not banished entirely from society, but actually used in more subtle ways throughout the entertainment industry. Sources Films Imitation of Life (dir. John Stahl, 1934)  Within Our Gates (dir. Oscar Micheaux, 1920) Birth Of A Nation (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1915)  Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971) She’s Gotta Have It (dir. Spike Lee, 1986) School Dazed (dir. Spike Lee, 1988) Tongues Untied (dir. Marlon T. Riggs, 1989) Hollywood Shuffle (dir. Robert Townsend, 1987) Bamboozled (dir. Spike Lee, 2000) Online Blogs/Readings https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-evolution-digital-blackface/ https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/blackface-birth-american-stereotype https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/# https://melaninislife.com/blogs/lifestyle/80s-black-movies https://davidfwalker.com/12-blaxploitation-movies-that-are-terrible-but-actually-are-blaxploitation/  Scholarly Documents  Riggs, Marlon T. “Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen.” (Black Film Issue). Black American Literature Forum 25.2 (Summer, 1991): 389-395. hooks, bell. “‘whose p***y is this’: a feminist comment.” Reel to Real: Sex and Class at the Movies. New York: Routledge, 1996. 291-302. Harbord, Jack. “Representations of Blackface and Minstrelsy in Twenty-First Century Popular Culture.” School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. United Kingdom, 2015.140-200. Lott, Eric. “Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Blackface Minstrelsy.” Representations, No. 39, (Summer, 1992): 23-50. Retrieved from https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media.pdf Rogin, Michael. "Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice." Critical Inquiry 18, no. 3 (1992): 417-53. Accessed December 14, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343811. Black, Ray. "Satire's Cruelest Cut: Exorcising Blackness in Spike Lee's Bamboozled". The Black Scholar, 33:1, 19-24. DOI:10.1080/00064246.2003.11413200

  3. 11/28/2020

    Early Black Contributions in Environmental Ethics

    This is a podcast focusing on assessing and sharing the intersectionality among cultures and a wide variety of other topics such as fashion, environmentalism, cinema, nutrition, etc. These episodes will be more historical and researched based to support the origins and pioneers of BIPOC influence in what we know as to be predominantly white spaces. Knowing history is important and, what’s even more important, is looking at historical events through a holistic lens. There is interconnectedness across cultures, communities, and identities that need to be shared within society because in some way everything connects. #intersectionalizeit #intersectionality #environmentalism #changeforabetterworld #nature #standupforwhatyoubelivein #makeadifference #thetimetoactisnow Check them Out!  Dorceta Taylor: https://environment.yale.edu/profile/taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorceta_Taylor Carolyn Merchant: https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/carolyn-merchant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Merchant Leah Thomas: https://www.greengirlleah.com/ https://www.instagram.com/intersectionalenvironmentalist/ Works Cited  Cronon, William. 1996. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt). W. E. B. Du Bois to Searles High School Alumni Association, June 13, 1961. In W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Amherst: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, n.d. Fabien, Vanessa. 2014. “African American Environmental Ethics: Black Intellectual Perspectives 1850-1965.” PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst. Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1937. Leopold, Aldo. 1987. “Land Ethic.” In A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches here and there, 201-227. New York: Oxford University.

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This is a podcast focusing on assessing and sharing the intersectionality among cultures and a wide variety of other topics. These episodes will be more historical and researched based to support the origins and pioneers of BIPOC influence in what we know as to be predominantly white spaces. Knowing history is important and, what’s even more important, is looking at historical events through a holistic lens. There is interconnectedness across cultures, communities, and identities that need to be shared within society because in some way everything connects.

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  • Creator
    Olive Onyekwelu
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Olive Onyekwelu
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    Intersectionalize It