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This essay explains the semiotic possibilities that film affords through an analysis of the 1975 film Mandingo. The aim is to substantiate the necessity for a counter-hegemonic strategy, which thwarts dubious ideology. 

 

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This essay illustrates the ways in which Toni Morrison translates characteristics of jazz music from an aural-to-literal depiction of an ontological state of pain that black people inherited from racial prejudice and displacement. 

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This essay traces the term thug in order to examine language (mis)use as it relates to the proliferation of social rifts in Western society. Social groups rally using language as a means to protest; however, language performs alongside social actors toward some end.

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