Michael Brandon Mccormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 1212005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Brandon Mccormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Brandon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMACK M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
My Soul Looks Beyond in Wonder: Curating Faith, Freedom, and Futurity at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
This article offers a description and critical reflection upon two recent exhibits on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture and Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures. The article explores the interplay of mutually reinforcing themes of faith, freedom, and futurity that emerge when examining the exhibits together. This article a…
‘The utter failure of white religion: W.E.B. Dubois' ‘The Souls of White Folk’ and the challenge of dismantling whiteness in the (post-) Trump era
Perhaps we, as folk of simpler soul and more primitive type, have been most struck in the welter of recent years by the utter failure of white religion. We have curled our lips in something like contempt as we have witnessed glib apology and weary explanation. Nothing of the sort deceived us. A nations’ religion is its life, and as such white Christianity is a miserable failure.-DuBois, The Souls of White FolkOriginally published in 1920, W.E.B. …
Left to Their Own Devices: Black Youth, Religion, and Technologies of Living
“We Ain’t Dead Said the Children”: A Fugitive Poetics of Life After Black Death
This article considers how Black culture workers engage in ongoing struggles over the meaning and value ascribed to Black lives in an anti-Black world that demands Black death. The artists explored in this article deploy modes of poetics that create possibilities for fugitivity, or escape, from the overdetermination of Black life as always, already, and only “dead.” Such fugitive poetics demonstrate the ways that blackness defies and exceeds soci…
Breonna Taylor Could Have Been Me: Bearing Witness to Faith in Black (Feminist) Futurity at the Speed Art Museum's Promise, Witness, Remembrance Exhibit
This article explores the Speed Art Museum's exhibit, Promise, Witness, Remembrance, as a site of meaning-making in the wake of the state-sponsored killing of Breonna Taylor. The article focuses on how the curators engaged the felt sense of vulnerability to premature death among Black viewers identified with Taylor in ways that held in tension a crisis of faith in, and an insistence upon, Black futurity
But We Are Still Living in Maafa”: Commemorating 1619–2019 through Ritual Performances of Healing and Hope in New Orleans and New York
Since the mid-1990s, Maafa commemorations have emerged in various cities throughout the United States as ways to ritualize remembrance of a painful Black past. “Maafa” (pronounced Mah-ah’-fa), a Ki
“I'm a Muslim … What's Wrong with That?”: Representational Interventions in Islamophobia at the Muhammad Ali Center
This article examines the role of the Muhammad Ali Center, in Louisville, Kentucky, as a significant site for challenging Islamophobia. The article focuses on how representational interventions and programmatic initiatives disrupt intensifications of anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and anti-Islamic sentiments in public discourses while fostering an alternative, inclusive vision of human flourishing
Fighting Injustice and Intolerance: Re-Presentations of Race and Religion at the Muhammad Ali Center
This article explores the significance of the Muhammad Ali Center as a site where meanings associated with "race" and "religion" are constructed, contested and potentially transformed. The Muhammad Ali Center is examined as an example of an increasing number of cultural institutions (i.e., cultural centers, museums, arts spaces etc.) engaged in the strategic re-presentation of issues of cultural difference and socio-political conflict, towards th…
“Your God is a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, and a Misogynist … Our God is Change”: Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler and Afrofuturist Critiques of (Black) American Religion
This article explores Afrofuturist critiques of contemporary (Black) American religion and the problematics of difference, dominance and deliverance envisioned by Black literary art in Ishmael Reed's play, The Preacher and the Rapper and Octavia Butler's novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Though Ishmael Reed and Octavia Butler deploy similar futuristic narrative strategies, they imagine radically different futures, present d…
Fighting Injustice and Intolerance: Re-Presentations of Race and Religion at the Muhammad Ali Center
This article explores the significance of the Muhammad Ali Center as a site where meanings associated with "race" and "religion" are constructed, contested and potentially transformed. The Muhammad Ali Center is examined as an example of an increasing number of cultural institutions (i.e., cultural centers, museums, arts spaces etc.) engaged in the strategic re-presentation of issues of cultural difference and socio-political conflict, towards th…
Breonna Taylor Could Have Been Me: Bearing Witness to Faith in Black (Feminist) Futurity at the Speed Art Museum's Promise, Witness, Remembrance Exhibit
This article explores the Speed Art Museum's exhibit, Promise, Witness, Remembrance, as a site of meaning-making in the wake of the state-sponsored killing of Breonna Taylor. The article focuses on how the curators engaged the felt sense of vulnerability to premature death among Black viewers identified with Taylor in ways that held in tension a crisis of faith in, and an insistence upon, Black futurity
“Your God is a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, and a Misogynist … Our God is Change”: Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler and Afrofuturist Critiques of (Black) American Religion
This article explores Afrofuturist critiques of contemporary (Black) American religion and the problematics of difference, dominance and deliverance envisioned by Black literary art in Ishmael Reed's play, The Preacher and the Rapper and Octavia Butler's novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Though Ishmael Reed and Octavia Butler deploy similar futuristic narrative strategies, they imagine radically different futures, present d…
Fighting Injustice and Intolerance: Re-Presentations of Race and Religion at the Muhammad Ali Center
This article explores the significance of the Muhammad Ali Center as a site where meanings associated with "race" and "religion" are constructed, contested and potentially transformed. The Muhammad Ali Center is examined as an example of an increasing number of cultural institutions (i.e., cultural centers, museums, arts spaces etc.) engaged in the strategic re-presentation of issues of cultural difference and socio-political conflict, towards th…
“I'm a Muslim … What's Wrong with That?”: Representational Interventions in Islamophobia at the Muhammad Ali Center
This article examines the role of the Muhammad Ali Center, in Louisville, Kentucky, as a significant site for challenging Islamophobia. The article focuses on how representational interventions and programmatic initiatives disrupt intensifications of anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and anti-Islamic sentiments in public discourses while fostering an alternative, inclusive vision of human flourishing
But We Are Still Living in Maafa”: Commemorating 1619–2019 through Ritual Performances of Healing and Hope in New Orleans and New York
Since the mid-1990s, Maafa commemorations have emerged in various cities throughout the United States as ways to ritualize remembrance of a painful Black past. “Maafa” (pronounced Mah-ah’-fa), a Ki
“We Ain’t Dead Said the Children”: A Fugitive Poetics of Life After Black Death
This article considers how Black culture workers engage in ongoing struggles over the meaning and value ascribed to Black lives in an anti-Black world that demands Black death. The artists explored in this article deploy modes of poetics that create possibilities for fugitivity, or escape, from the overdetermination of Black life as always, already, and only “dead.” Such fugitive poetics demonstrate the ways that blackness defies and exceeds soci…
Breonna Taylor Could Have Been Me: Bearing Witness to Faith in Black (Feminist) Futurity at the Speed Art Museum's Promise, Witness, Remembrance Exhibit
This article explores the Speed Art Museum's exhibit, Promise, Witness, Remembrance, as a site of meaning-making in the wake of the state-sponsored killing of Breonna Taylor. The article focuses on how the curators engaged the felt sense of vulnerability to premature death among Black viewers identified with Taylor in ways that held in tension a crisis of faith in, and an insistence upon, Black futurity
‘The utter failure of white religion: W.E.B. Dubois' ‘The Souls of White Folk’ and the challenge of dismantling whiteness in the (post-) Trump era
Perhaps we, as folk of simpler soul and more primitive type, have been most struck in the welter of recent years by the utter failure of white religion. We have curled our lips in something like contempt as we have witnessed glib apology and weary explanation. Nothing of the sort deceived us. A nations’ religion is its life, and as such white Christianity is a miserable failure.-DuBois, The Souls of White FolkOriginally published in 1920, W.E.B. …
Left to Their Own Devices: Black Youth, Religion, and Technologies of Living
My Soul Looks Beyond in Wonder: Curating Faith, Freedom, and Futurity at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
This article offers a description and critical reflection upon two recent exhibits on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture and Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures. The article explores the interplay of mutually reinforcing themes of faith, freedom, and futurity that emerge when examining the exhibits together. This article a…
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works)