From the “top-down” and the “bottom-up”: Centering Foucault’s notion of biopower and individual accountability within systemic racism

In the wake of worldwide events coalescing in 2020, the presence of anti-Black racism in the United States was made visible to those abroad and its egregiousness made more explicit to some citizens previously unaware of it in the U.S. In addition to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic exposing deep-seated structural health disparities between white and non-white communities, a global mass uprising emerged in response to George Floyd’s death. In ways that could not have been anticipated even a few years earlier, segments of American society have had to reckon with the pervasive, powerful forces of white supremacy and the ways society and its structures have disadvantaged racially minoritized groups. In this wide-sweeping shift, medical education and medicine have also grappled with these issues, especially the ways in which medical education perpetuates institutional racism

Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa

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William Rimmer: Teaching Art

Rarely do we find an artist, physician, and educator all in the same person. Yet this describes William Rimmer (1816-1879). He doesn’t fit into common historical narratives and can’t be contained in a single discipline. Scholarship since his death has largely focused on and interprets his work through the lens of his enigmatic personality and family history. Yet accounts of Rimmer during his lifetime tell other, even more compelling stories. Newspapers were fascinated with the unique combination of science and imagination found in his art. Many were mesmerized by what and how he taught at places such as the Lowell Institute in Massachusetts and the Female School of Design at Cooper Union in New York. Aside from the artists who came from around the country, all types of people attended Rimmer’s classes and lectures on what he called “Art Anatomy.” The majority of his students were women, who were, like Rimmer, acknowledged for their work during the period, but have remained largely absent from our histories. Through Rimmer, we gain insight into nineteenth-century art, science, and education, and more specifically the professionalization of women artists, public lecturing, and performance culture, to cite just a few examples. Foregrounding his teaching, this project seeks to reveal Rimmer at the center of a complex and extensive network of individuals, institutions, and ideas. Rimmer is part of two “lineages” not often discussed in histories of nineteenth-century American art: that of artist-educators and artists for whom the body was central to their expression and their primary medium of meaning making and theory production. Looking closely at Rimmer allows us to reconsider and expand established stories of American art, education, and history. This dissertation proposes that Rimmer’s art and teaching were intimately intertwined. In both, Rimmer emphasized the importance of guiding and engaging the participant and leaving space for her own imagination, experiences, and questions. Looking closely at Rimmer’s approaches and philosophy can help us reimagine the role of art and educators

Norman Lewis

African American artist Norman Lewis (1909–79) was known to be a complex conversant in command of many verbal and visual idioms. His art reveals an interest in inter- and intrapersonal interactions. Lewis studied how people conversed, the way individuals operated in Groups, and the movement of crowds. His work compels viewers to look carefully at other people and themselves. How do we interact with others and what happens durinG those exchanGes? His interest in human interaction on the micro and macro scales has not yet received in-depth analysis. When for many abstract expressionists the individual and individual experience was paramount, Lewis was concerned with the community and the communal. He desired to communicate with the viewer and persistently souGht to confiGure the most fittinG visual lanGuaGe for the Job. His lanGuaGe and approach to visual communication took from the many vernaculars he used.</jats:p

From the “top-down” and the “bottom-up”: Centering Foucault’s notion of biopower and individual accountability within systemic racism

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