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Watch: Samantha Sheppard previews her book Sporting Blackness
Mar 17 2021
This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen."In her fusion of theories of race and
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A Conversation with Samantha Sheppard, author of Sporting Blackness
Dec 23 2020
This interview was originally published in Film Quarterly. Sam Sheppard is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Medi
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Black History Makers & Risk Takers: Athletes
Feb 27 2020
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li
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