Voices | Samuel Boudreau | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/scb200023/activity/ Activity feed for Samuel Boudreau. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f8755ac6047b2be90bcc4fd0c77fdac2 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4656 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:24:22 +0000 Earlier, we discussed the symbolism of the train in Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Reverend J.M. Gates’ “Death’s Black Train is Coming,” along with a secondary article, John M. Giggie’s After Redemption: Jim C […]

]]> 4ae6192a8d5c6d59a50e53f3ca7fc4a0 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4643 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:41:25 +0000 In “The Tale of Two Cities in James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain,” Charles Scruggs of the University of Arizona argues that while many view Baldwin’s work as a Bildungsroman or as a particular […]

]]> a3d725cbfdd1ac5c0e2385a2cf9ecde2 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Support for Christians in the LGBTQ+, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/10/29/support-for-christians-in-the-lgbtq/#comment-141 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:53:14 +0000 Hi Rekik,

I totally agree with your blog. In response to the third prompt, as you said, there seems tot be a large amount of religious leaders/organizations who still view homosexuality as a sin, and I wonder […]

]]> c56a52e47c49ce642efedfe3480307e0 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Not the Question, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/10/29/not-the-question/#comment-140 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:34:27 +0000 Hi Cole,

I agree with your disagreement with the question, “disruption of normative discourses,” and I would like to focus on the term “normative” and ask, who gets to decide what the “normative” is? Around the […]

]]> 894e3fada345bb76ca47007219d7d1c5 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4572 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:45:48 +0000 Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

In “Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community,” Kelly Brown Douglas “outline[s] the general contours of [Black homophobia] as it seeks to understand the re […]

]]> 486030fd28b4711b4243934e51431518 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4543 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:12:03 +0000 Image by StockSnap from Pixabay 

In “Very Many Hands,” Aaron Coleman establishes the landscape for his book, “Threat Come Close,” a collection of poems, by understanding the stories and experiences of mig […]

]]> 019e14538b618ae68e6a86d6d5e12582 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Boycott's Music Symbolism, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/10/14/boycotts-music-symbolism/#comment-117 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:17:54 +0000 Hi Maya, I greatly enjoyed reading this post and listening to the song that you included. While Boycott’s ending is comprehensive and compelling, might you possibly identify why the ending of four little girls […]

]]> e1e2dad14dd132d71810795c4841535e Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Keep. Moving. Forward., on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/10/12/keep-moving-forward/#comment-116 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:07:33 +0000 Hi Ty, I greatly enjoyed reading your post regarding the end of Boycott. As you note, it is important to realize that the Movement was not linear and clear cut. Do you believe that the ending of 4 little girls is […]

]]> 4ae51774436fc40a40a6ba53400d51f9 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4453 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:06:05 +0000 Mr. and Mrs. Chris McNair hold a picture of their daughter, Denise, 11, in Birmingham, September 16, 1963, as they tell a newsman about the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. One day earlier, Denise […]

]]> 4a1339adbdd26275eadb821d5e79f3ea Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Black, White, and Read All Over, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/10/01/black-white-and-read-all-over/#comment-89 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:56:34 +0000 Hi Hannah,
What a terrific post! I really like how you talk about how the newspaper headlines parallel Melba’s personal experiences, and how they offer an outsider’s view into the boiling tensions in Little […]

]]> 83d84b5321307d0a0190d1b554886c78 Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4398 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 03:47:09 +0000 Reporter interviewing one of the Little Rock Nine 1957. Photo by Burt Glinn.Courtesy of History Collection

In the early stages of Warriors Don’t Cry, the newspaper is seen as an everyday part of Melba’s life […]

]]> b31bfb4b9720c94ad05c66129068f5f8 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Is the Importance of Family Heritage Fading?, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/09/20/is-the-importance-of-family-heritage-fading/#comment-82 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:03:52 +0000 Hi Cole, To support this claim, I’m thinking about how the Dash article mentioned how Dash wanted to deviate from the typical Hollywood story. Especially in the opening scenes, there are many scenes, such as the […]

]]> 9997afaf62557caadfe32d946264f852 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, The Usage of Snead, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/09/21/the-usage-of-snead/#comment-81 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:58:41 +0000 Hi Jackeb,
I think you bring up a couple off really interesting points about Mr. Snead in this movie. I appreciate how you identify that he serves many purposes throughout the film. As a viewer, it was really […]

]]> 4944d7939154022aecd91679d387ed9c Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4311 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:07:58 +0000 As John makes is way to Alf Pearson’s plantation, he hears a sound which rattles his conscience, as the rumbling of a locomotive thunders by (Hurston, p.15). Astonished, by the “fiery-lunged monster, John tries to […]

]]> 733089a5ebed5467e107416ffc8f20f6 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Celebrity Preachers, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/08/26/celebrity-preachers/#comment-20 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:14:09 +0000 Hi Rekik, this is an interesting post on how the success of a preacher can impact how they view themselves. My question to you is how do you think the popularity of Zeke and his family changed how they viewed […]

]]> 0cbf3fe1a09c237ac9e209e73b107462 Samuel Boudreau commented on the post, Representation for Whom?, on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) http://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/2020/08/26/representation-for-whom/#comment-16 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:38:36 +0000 Hi Ty,
You bring up a lot of great points, and I think, to answer your question, the film further damaged the black subconscious self image by attempting to show that the social movements of the 1920s would be […]

]]> 1775d9a91e3cc1fbc2e98b091811621d Samuel Boudreau wrote a new post on the site Religion in Black Film and Literature (Fall 2020) https://religioninblackfilmandlit.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4214 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:39:44 +0000 In the early twentieth century, the symbolism of the train in the Mississippi Delta was at the center of African American religious perspectives. As noted in John M. Giggie’s After Redemption: Jim Crow and […]

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