Since the last time I did a post on this blog, the U.S. has leapt into the flames of fascism and kleptocracy willingly, it appears. In the second month of 2025 we are witnessing a surge of policies and enactments in real time affecting not only the U.S. but Canada and other countries. And the…
Tag: culture
Breaking the Silence: 5 Years of Eartotheground!
I have not been able to muster up the necessary energy, inspiration or even concentration over the last couple of months to work on this blog. And although I have continued to keep up with the horrific news of Gaza, the world’s complicity and indifference have been soul -wrenching. The trite banality of doubling down…
Re-Humanizing the Caribbean : The Micro-Histories of Documentalist Gloria Rolando
Kaushalya Bannerji (Excerpt from presentation, Berkshires Women’s History Conference) copyright 2014 This is a piece whose purpose is to reflect on and pay tribute to the work of Gloria Rolando, whose commitment to Afro-Cuban history and to the notion of culture as resistance to forces of oppression and hegemonic amnesia, make her films both contextually…
Ear to the Ground 