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The American Black Man: A Cyclical Tragedy
TORIANO HAYWARD In the hours before Easter Weekend 2017, seven-time Grammy Award winner Kendrick Lamar released his fourth album, DAMN.. While fans did not receive a second album or “resurrection”…
The Border Crossed Us: Navigating the Dominant Culture of South Texas
SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL When I was 3, I remember singing the alphabet song every chance I got. I knew it in two languages — English and Spanish. I remember my…
The Absurd Tragicomedy of American Borders
DAVID HECHT The Constitution is the founding document of the United States we know today. Yet there are over 200 years of subsequent legal history that can attest to the…
Invisible Lines: Performing Borders and Liminal Space
In this issue of SixByEight Press, we explore the topics of in-between spaces as well as dividing lines and boundaries. We dive into how these borders and spaces are formed,…
Native Technology: Colonialism and the Indigenous Technological Ecosystem
DELESSLIN GEORGE-WARREN We are all living in a technology… Technology is one of those words wrought with misunderstanding. In its colloquial sense, it stands in for good, beneficent, or helpful.…
The Reprise of Irishness
JOE MADSEN Modern Irish history is nothing if not a reprise. For more than a century, as the island has set itself apart from British dominion, its people have undergone…
What Now? The Swamp, Revisited
MARIA MILLER November Two days after it happened. What we were so stubbornly, arrogantly, certain wouldn’t happen, couldn’t possibly — did. The sun has now stubbornly risen not once, but twice.…
Passing in Trump’s America: The Hidden Stakes of Identity Politics
TANISHA HUMPHREY Source: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0) During the 2016 election cycle, “identity politics” became a dirty word to be avoided. While our identities have always been deeply political, identity…
Interview with Natsu Onoda Power
NATALIE GALLAGHER & KELLEY KIDD In this issue we spoke to Natsu Onoda Power, a renowned theatre professor, director, and designer whose extensive body of work — which includes several remounts…