Entries by Adam Strom
Rejecting Assimilation
The words assimilation, integration, and acculturation are often used interchangeably but they mean different things. Assimilation suggests giving up your culture to fit in with the people around you, whereas integration is a process in which people from different groups become more alike, and acculturation is the process of learning the rules of society. In […]
Ma Rainey and The Great Migration
Ma Rainey and The Great Migration August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in 1927 and focuses on the experiences of Ma Rainey, a Southern Black singer who has moved North during the Great Migration. This Netflix short video, produced as a companion to the 2020 film adaptation of the play, weaves Rainey’s […]