Word: groundedness
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"Leticia is drawn to a spirituality that is very grounded in social justice," Landry said.
Instead of following survey form, the class will borrow some of the theoretical perspectives of cultural studies and examine, according to the catalog description, "how black music has evolved not merely as an extension of African-centered practices, but as a socially grounded idea that has profoundly contributed to modern...
A more grounded and accessible work is Jonathan Coleman's Long Way to Go: Black & White in America (Atlantic Monthly Press; $26.50), which focuses on ordinary blacks and whites in the "hypersegregated" city of Milwaukee. The narrative begins in 1991 with Milwaukeeans living under a black nationalist's threat of...
All right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's...
All four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be...