Saturday, September 29, 2012

Briana Whiteside's Commentary

Briana Whiteside earned her undergraduate degree from Tougaloo College and her M.A. in English from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is a contributing writer for the Cultural Front.

Entries
2016
• February 25: “Boxer Braids” or Cornrows?

2015
• November 28: Endangered Bodies: Reading Brothers and Keepers in a Maximum Security Facility 
• October 31: Making an Impact on Prison Officers
• October 21: Critique of Manhood: Reading Native Son in an Alabama Medium Security Prison 
• June 24: Ongoing Biases Concerning Black Hair 

2014
• August 14: The Promise of Skin Color in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling 
• July 18: Natural Hair Anniversary: 14 months
• July 3: Octavia Butler’s Imago
• July 1: Octavia Butler’s “Childfinder”
• June 30: The Human Contradiction in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites
• June 25: Social Stratification in Octavia Butler's "A Necessary Being" 
• June 24: Octavia Butler’s “A Necessary Being”
• June 17: Octavia Butler’s Lilith
• May 7: Bantu knots: Ghetto?
• April 20: 100 Entries Later
• April 20: Mailbag #3
• April 20: Mailbag #2
• April 20: Thesis lessons: reading the field
• April 19: Thesis lessons: the process
• April 19: Mailbag #1
• April 19: Uncanny Black Women introduction
• April 19: Octavia Butler’s Mary
• April 19: Celebrating Octavia Butler
• April 19: Celebrating Olivia Pope
• April 19: Questioning Olivia Pope
• April 19: Various Uncanny black women characters
• April 16: "Can I touch your hair?" 
• April 14: How I think about science fiction now
• April 9: The Kindred cover 
• April 9: Butler’s Healing Women 
• April 3: Politics of Respectability among black women characters 
• April 2: Olivia Pope: The Help? 
• April 2: Being Mary Jane addresses colorism 
• March 28: Natural Hair: Why Hair length now matters
• March 28: One way I mark up/read texts now that I did not 2 years ago
• March 21: How natural hair affected my style 
• March 21: Why Mary is one of my favorite characters from the Patternist Series
• March 19: Natural Hair Anniversary (10 months)
• March 17: Octavia Butler Publications 
• March 7: 75 Entries Later
• March 5: Why I have a new perspective on Scandal 
• February 27: Shifting views of natural hair in the workplace
• February 19: Pretty Hurts
• February 17: Lewis Gordon, black feminism, and Black intellectual tradition
• February 6: “Live or Die”: Avoiding Shelternization
• January 28: The Design of the “Invisible Child” series (part 1)
• January 28: Lewis Gordon, Religion, and Black Intellectual Tradition 
• January 27: 50 Shades of Black
• January 11: Hair Texture Still Matters
• January 5: Survivor Character list
• January 5: Patternmaster Character List 

2013
• December 8: Covers of Octavia Butler’s Mind of My Mind
• November 14: Natural Hair in the Workplace
• October 31: Nikky Finney's LaVena Johnson poem
• October 27: Allison Joseph and Sonnet Sequences
• October 27: Elizabeth Alexander as a link between generations of poets
• October 18: Natural Hair—5 months 
• October 11: The Nature of Family in Wild Seed (part 4)
• October 11: Troubled Relationships in Wild Seed (pt3)
• October 10: Evie Shockley’s unusual poem designs 
• September 21: The Nature of Family in Wild Seed (pt 3)
• September 20: Clay’s Ark Character List
• September 17: The Nature of Family in Wild Seed (pt 2) 
• September 17: Troubled Relationships in Wild Seed (pt 2)
• September 6: Mind of My Mind Character List
• September 5: I Am the Darker Sister with Natural Hair
• September 5: Troubled relationships in Wild Seed (pt 1)
• September 3: Reconsidering Clay's Ark
• September 1: Wild Seed Character List 
• August 30: Keira, Butler’s Resilient Protagonist
• August 30: Raising Octavia Butler's Survivor From the Dead 
• August 29: The Nature of Family in Wild Seed (pt1) 
• August 28: Alanna, The Missing Sister in Octavia Butler's Survivor
• August 27: Octavia Butler’s Survivor
 • August 23: An Octavia Butler Timeline 
• July 17: Institutional factors shape dreams, outcomes of black men as well 
• July 10: Natural Hair at 2 months 
• June 25: A glossary of natural hair terms 
• May 22: The Big Chop
• May 9: Notes on Barbara Smith, Trudier Harris and Melissa Harris Perry
• April 30: Misunderstanding Black Feminism
• April 16: Sistas Rocking Naturals and Digital Humanities
• April 14: The 2013 African American Language and Literature Symposium at UTSA  
• April 11: The Uncanny Bridges the Gap between Renaissance and African American Literature
• April 8: On Natural Hair
• March 28: The Ward, Wright & Whiteside Connections by Howard Rambsy II
• March 28: 30 Entries Later
• March 25: Octavia Butler's Patternmaster
• March 21: Considering Charles Johnson's Middle Passage 
• March 21: Octavia Butler as an Uncanny writer 
• March 20: Trauma and Gayl Jones’ Corregidora
• March 14: Octavia Butler's Clay's Ark  
• March 7: The Bluest Eye, The Brady Bunch & the 32 Million Word Gap
• March 5: The unnamed, unapologetic woman in Alice Walker's short story
• February 22: Toni Morrison’s Mysterious Sula 
• February 21: Towards a definition of the Uncanny 
• February 20: Octavia Butler’s unexpected Mary 
• February 20: Future Uncanny Histories
• February 2: Octavia Butler’s Future Histories 
• January 19: Shonda Rhimes’ Uncanny Olivia Pope
• January 18: Uncanny Black Women in African American literature
• January 11: Toni Morrison's Uncanny Sorrow
• January 2: Nalo Hopkinson’s Uncanny Ti-Jeanne
 
2012
• December 8: Briana Whiteside's Markups of poems by Tyehimba Jess & Evie Shockley by Howard Rambsy II
• December 1: Briana Whiteside's Journey: From Illinois to Mississippi back to Illinois by Danielle Hall
• November 8: Toni Morrison's character Pilate as an Uncanny Black Woman 
• October 31: Octavia Butler’s Uncanny Wild Seed
• October 30: Margaret Walker’s Uncanny Molly Means 
• October 23: Reflections on Body and Soul 
• October 18: Conclusion: Race and Health in the Post-Civil Rights Era
• October 15: As American as Cherry Pie: (Chapter 5)
• October 7: Spin Doctors: The Politics of Sickle Cell Anemia (Chapter 4)
• October 3: Origins of Black Panther Party Health Activism (Chapter 2) 
• September 29: The People's Free Medical Clinics (Chapter 3) 
• September 20:  Developing more respect for the diversity of Black Language Practices  
• September 17: Responding to Medical Discrimination Before 1966 (Chapter 1) 
• September 11: Health Activism and the Black Panther Party   

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