Poroi Copyright (c) 2009 University of Iowa All rights reserved. http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi Recent documents in Poroi en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:40:31 PDT 3600 Grave Games http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/5 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:48:10 PDT "Grave Games" is an essay that explores some of the author's experiences trying to wrap her mind around the most mind-blowing topic of all: death. Kerry Anne Reilly Creative Nonfiction Manhood, Lorain-Style http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/4 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/4 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:48:09 PDT Manhood, Lorain Style is a narrative essay in which the author discusses issues of masculinity and gender identity in the working-class environment of his hometown Lorain, Ohio. Written mostly as a story, the essay recounts a fistfight that the author provoked and participated in when he was sixteen years old in order to prove he wasn't "gay" based on the standards of what he considers Rust Belt masculinity. Nick Kowalczyk "Who do you think you are?": Race, Representation, and Cultural Rhetorics in Online Spaces http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/3 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/3 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:48:06 PDT This essay looks at the articulation of Black identity in personal and online contexts. Following Omi and Winant's argument that racial formation is a matter of racial representation within social structures, I examine the Internet as a "third place" for the online representation of Black identity by Blacks and by non-Blacks following two critical incidents in recent public culture: Kanye West's Hurricane Katrina speech and the Rev. Joseph Lowery's inauguration benediction. As a third place, the Internet encourages intimate discursive interaction, similar to the way Black barber shops and beauty salons allowed private spaces for identity discourses between Black men and women. The Internet also opens these formerly private spaces to non-Blacks, who contribute to the articulation of Black identity online. André Brock Information Studies New Media Back to Buxton http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/2 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/2 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:48:03 PDT A creative essay exploring efforts towards racial integration in an Iowa mining town and in an Iowa college town a hundred years later. Eula Biss Writing Public Culture http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/1 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol6/iss1/1 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:48:01 PDT Aimee Carrillo Rowe From the Challenge of Virtue to the Challenges of Virtual http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/9 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/9 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:04:05 PST Russell Scott Valentino Globalizing Terror http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/7 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/7 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:04:04 PST Francis A. Beer Therapy, Silence, and War: Consolation and the End of Deliberation in the "Affected" Public http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/8 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/8 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:04:04 PST Dana L. Cloud The Sound of Falling http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/6 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/6 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:04:03 PST Christopher Merrill Four Forms of Terrorism: Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol2/iss1/5 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:04:02 PST John S. Nelson