New Orleans Ok, this is the Trump Era, so why would anybody care about the Oscars, now or ever? It’s a high-priced fashion show and a self-congratulatory industry back pat. Viewership has been going down steadily. The industry seems to be searching hardest for the pulse of viewers globally, especially in China, and, as some …
Tag: culture
La Lucha Libre and Peoples’ Museums
Mexico City Museums are funny, contradictory institutions. The ones we hear about and see most often are the cultural playgrounds of the elite and powerful that contain and promote the dominant institutional, political, and historical messages that are intended to acculturate the rest of us. These are ones that get the big grants, have the …
The Hard Problems Integrating “Culture” into Social Change
New Orleans Jagrati Bhatia is community organizer I know in London who I’ve talked to about our organizing in Narobi, where she has family. I posted on my Facebook page that I was rolling through Lake Village, Arkansas between Little Rock and New Orleans and stopped by: ….to help set up the KABF sponsored Oxbow Jazz …