Alyssa Lopez
@prof_alopez
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historian of early black film culture & NYC // assistant prof @PCHistoryDept // associate editor @GothamCenter // really into cats // tweets my own
Joined September 2020
Got the hard copies today & felt a whirlwind of gratitude all over again.
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RT @E_M_Charles: Excited to share my chat in @TheBrooklynRail with @prof_alopez on her new book Reel Freedom from @TempleUnivPress . https:….
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Alyssa Lopez speaks to the Rail about her new book Reel Freedom and the emergence of Black film culture in early twentieth-century New York City.
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Today's the day!!.
come out next week (5/8, 6pm) to support an amazing local bookstore & hear a lil about "Reel Freedom" !!!!
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RT @MSU_HistoryDept: Pero Dagbovie was the featured guest of the Fourth Annual IDI Speaker Series last week, where he discusses his new boo….
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come out next week (5/8, 6pm) to support an amazing local bookstore & hear a lil about "Reel Freedom" !!!!
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RT @UntappedNY: 🎬 Discover how Black New Yorkers used #NYC theaters to claim the city as their own 🏙️ Join a free virtual launch of "Reel F….
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today is pub day for REEL FREEDOM!! Here's a picture as proof that it really does exist & that @PCHistoryDept is amazing and followed through on that book cake promise.
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RT @JelonAlexander: My advisor just dropped a new article. She is going to come out with a new book in August entitled: Tell Her Story: E….
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: "[R]ejecting the racist logic of discrimination and troubling language of pathology. Lewis gives audiences a Harlem ful….
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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts fr…
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Ahh! "Reel Freedom" is out so soon, but you can pre-order it (if that's your thing) AND get 25% off (PO25S).
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RT @WFPProject: New to WFPP: Alyssa Lopez (@prof_alopez) on the career of exhibitor Maria C. Downs!. "Mrs. Maria C. Downs (née Godoy), vari….
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RT @NYUpress: New from Menika B. Dirkson, Hope and Struggle in the Policed City, draws the connective line between the racial bias African….
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RT @JAAHistory: CALL FOR PAPERS.The Significance of Black History: A Century of Observance, 1926 to 2026 #CFP January 1, 2025, is the deadl….
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RT @DrHenryWashJr: My article on POSE's effort to rewrite the dominant history of AIDS is now available online in @DukePress's Camera Obscu….
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An amazing piece by @lheltonian from her amazing new book!!.
Also new on the blog, scholar Laura E. Helton provides an excerpt from her work on Arthur Schomburg, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.
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RT @evynelevyn: JOB OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Director position, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University. They a….
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RT @cjoyalways: Friends of Anne Moody (FAM) is a group of scholars, researchers, & students who have been gathering since 2022 to promote t….
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RT @812filmreviews: A retrospective of Oscar Micheaux's films, dedicated to the late Pearl Bowser, is starting tomorrow at @FilmForumNYC.….
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A preview of Film Forum's upcoming retrospective on the pioneer of early Black cinema, whose influence can be seen in the careers of Tyler Perry and Spike Lee.
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RT @internetarchive: Yesterday we filed our final brief in the lawsuit by 4 corporate publishers against our nonprofit library: https://t.c….
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This would be a PAID opportunity & should not take more than 1-2 days.
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