Месяц: Сентябрь 2015

Laura Marks: On Fetishes and Fossils

In “Fetishes and Fossils: Notes on Documentary and Materiality,” Laura Marks (1999) offers two metaphors to illustrate how documentaries both fetishize and fossilize their subjects. In this article Marks focuses on the operation of documentary films as intercultural phenomena, where the documentary marks a relationship between cultures. Drawing on the scholarship of William Pietz, Marks […]

THE MARCH’S FAILURES: A CONFUSED POLITICAL PROJECT AND THE NATION OF ISLAM’S LEADERSHIP ROLE

Although the March evidenced mass black political mobilization and signaled a degree of black political independence, its political project was never clearly articulated. The exact purpose of the March re­mains an enigma. Although atonement ultimately became the stated purpose of the March, when Minister Farrakhan first announced his plans, atonement for sin was not the […]