angimaryssa.bsky.social
Daughter in a long line ❤️🖤💚
Law prof @auwcl teaching Africana Legal Studies, Torts, and Higher Education Law.
HBCU (Howard U) double alum.
☝🏾All views represented are my own.
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Thank you so much, Maya! Your support means the world!
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Thank you so much for the shout out, Jamie! 🙏🏾
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The great Listervelt Middleton kicks it off 🙏🏾
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Speaks for itself.
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" . . . In constitutional law the spinelessness of the United States Supreme Court in permitting the judicial nullification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments was and still is boldly upheld in our few law schools.” - Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Anyway, it was deep. Left me with a lot to think about. And the singers were very good.
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Especially bc it is an abrupt shift. It's definitely an element of the fantasy. But by being so over the top, it emphasizes that, in reality, enslavers acted opposite. They unapologetically exploited their own children, broke up families, and killed people "under their correction"
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Even the conciliatory ending seems like a critique. It's like an alternate reality where enslavers actually admit they are wrong, course correct, punish enslaved Africans for resisting their wrongs. Initially I was unsatisfied with that ending but now I'm interpreting it differently
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So, "Morgiane" fits right in with that, but is set in Western Asia, which i think makes it pretty subversive. Some of the lines in the opera seem like direct call outs of US enslavement. Very express critiques.
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Not just Micheaux though. (That's just who I often think about because I'm a fan). But those themes of hidden/surprise ancestry and using that to critique enslavers and oppressors were really popular in entertainment of the late 1800s and early 1900s
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This is about enslavement! It's just posed as an analogy. So good. And probably would have been controversial had it come out in the nineteenth century when it was written
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Haha i love it!
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Aww, thank you so much! 🙏🏾 that's the bigger achievement and more profound compliment for me than any formal award in academe.
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🙏🏾 thank you so much
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That document says, "To treat in an equal manner persons or groups whose situations are objectively different will constitute discrimination in effect . . . ." So...the idea that special attention to disadvantaged groups is discriminatory is willfully ignorant of pretty well established concepts.
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...It's about how we can shift from viewing those poisonings from a European-centered perspective to an African-centered perspective.
I'm excited to be able to share it, early 2025. Stay tuned--it will be in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality (MJLI)