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Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:24:39 +0000

If I were to add something to our silabus I would add a book or short story that is from the 2000s to show what Black religious texts are nowadays. One of my favorite books that might fit into this category is […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:09:13 +0000

The use of dirt and filth is very interesting in Go Tell It on the Mountain. Gabriel is always complaining about how dirty he thinks that the house is and saying that his wife should keep it cleaner. His obsession […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Facing Homophobia with Love, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:12:38 +0000

I really liked how you laid out the argument and evidence that Kelly Brown Douglas uses in “Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community”. You did a really nice job choosing the most imp […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, LGBTQ Tolerance vs Affirmation in Spaces, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:04:30 +0000

Thank you for providing that link! I did not grow up going to church and was completely unaware that the story of Ruth and Naomi even existed before doing the reading on Delly. That article that you provided puts […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 05:07:17 +0000

Question 2
That extra information provided changes how I think about Hughes’s story “Blessed Assurance” a lot. As someone who has very little experience with religion (other than the one night a year at a co […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:12:01 +0000

There are many connections between the poems that Aaron Coleman wrote and read out loud and the themes that we have talked about in class. One of the connections between the poems and the class is the theme of […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Faith, Action, and Inaction, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:15:31 +0000

I really like this comparison you made between Duff and the student. They both do have strong critics of religion and how religion leads to inaction. Both of them also have conflicts with religious leaders because […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Heirlooms of Trauma, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:53:19 +0000

This was a super interesting post! I really enjoyed the connection that you made between the two films. I agree that both are good examples of passing down trauma and mental illness onto children.I also noticed […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:29:43 +0000

I can definitely see why Nothing But a Man would be Malcolm X’s favorite film. There are many similarities between the civil rights leader Malcolm X and the protagonist in Nothing But a Man, Duff. The film has a […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, How it is Boycott, not Four Little Girls, that gives more insight into the Twenty First Century, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:24:22 +0000

I really liked how you talked about the importance of both unity and leadership. Both were very important to the success of the Birmingham bus boycott and I agree that the movie Boycott did a really nice job […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Keep. Moving. Forward., on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:15:00 +0000

I agree with this a lot. I really like the quote that you used from Martin Luther King Jr. It really connects well to the ending of Boycott reminding and showing us that it was not the true end of the movement and […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:20:00 +0000

No one can understand the pain that was felt by the parents that lost children in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama in 1963. Not even Spike Lee after filming the entire […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Segregation In Schools, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:06:35 +0000

That is a really good point about segregation nowadays. One part of “Warriors Don’t Cry” that surprised me was that the abuse to the Back students got worse and worse as the school year went on. I expected that […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:58:35 +0000

In Warriors Don’t Cry one of the characters that I found very interesting was Danny. Danny was the soldier that was placed in charge of making sure that Melba or the other Little Rock 9 students were not killed at […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, The Usage of Snead, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:40:07 +0000

I agree that Mr. Snead did seem like an outsider in the film. I really like your point about him being an embodiment of how life is off the island. I also saw Mr. Snead as maybe a way to show the family and the […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, A Sense of Reality in (Ir)resolution, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:24:55 +0000

Hi Lauren,
I agree with you saying that it felt like not everything was resolved at the end of the movie. For me this was especially the case with Eula and Eli. In the scene in the graveyard with Eli and Nana, it […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 01:36:37 +0000

To Willie Cole, the ironing board and iron have much more significant than being a simple household appliances. In Zora Hurston’s short story Sweat, Delia is a washerwoman working hard every day. The short story e […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, So Who's the Gourd Vine?, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:55:47 +0000

It’s really good point you made at the end of this blog post about the expectations of Black women in the background of men’s success. It reminded me of the scene in the story when John is in court again because […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, John's Lack of Self Awareness and its Affect on his Life and Preaching, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:35:49 +0000

I definitely agree with what you are saying here. It seems like John has no remorse or maybe does not even realize that the way he is acts is hurting the people in his life. He treated Lucy so badly when they were […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, The Theme of Two Trains Passed Through Art Forms, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:27:46 +0000

That is a really interesting about Chick being the last to leave on the train. It did seem like she was hesitant to get on, so maybe it was her choosing between heaven and hell. It reminded me of the line in […]

Eliza Cullen commented on the post, Performance Aspects of Chanted Railroad Sermons, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:08:58 +0000

That is very interesting that Giggie wrote about how the song itself sounded like a train. I would not have picked that up but going back and listening again, I can see that it does have some similarities.

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:06:10 +0000

God’s Trombones is a book of sermons and poetry, written by James Weldon Johnson. The book was published in 1927 and it is still very common for preachers to recite surmans from the book today. I have attached a c […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother

Wed, 08 May 2019 02:05:48 +0000

Earlier this year I read Benito Cereno, a story write by Herman Melville. It is based off a true story about Captain Delano, a ship captain from Massachusetts that see a boat floating off in the distance and sees […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother

Wed, 08 May 2019 01:34:21 +0000

With playoff hockey season in full affect, I started supporting my home team and watching some of the Bruins games again. It would be hard not to notice the lack of diversity in the NHL. There is very little […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 03:11:16 +0000

Jordan Peele is changing the way we think of horror movies. The first movie that he directed, Get Out, had a budget of 4.5 million dollars and has made over 255 million in the box office. Get Out is the story of a […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 02:35:46 +0000

A few summers ago, I read a book titled Just Mercy, written by a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson. The New York Times best seller tells of Bryan Stevenson’s work representing people that been victims of an unjust, […]

Eliza Cullen wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:12:16 +0000

Last week, I went to a talk by Professor Shakes, titled African Futures/ American Legacies: an Africana Perspective on Marvel’s Black Panther and Luke Cage. One of the things that stood out to me during the talk w […]

Eliza Cullen became a registered member

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:29:07 +0000