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Author: Susan McFarlane-Alvarez / Clayton State University

Susan McFarlane-Alvarez is an Associate Professor of Communication in Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Her research focuses at the intersection of postcoloniality and corporate expression. Her published works include “Human Billboarding: Peopled Publicity and a New Space of ‘Agency” in Advertising” in Advertising, Society and Review, “Bim and Joebell: Filmic Representations of (Post)Colonial Caribbean Identity” in Contemporary Caribbean Dynamics, “Trinidad and Tobago Television Advertising as Third Space: Hybridity in the Caribbean Mediascape” in the Howard Journal of Communication, and “The Quest for National Identity and Visual Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago Television.”

“Go back where you come from!”: Aesthetic identity, “This Land” and “Old Town Road”
Susan McFarlane-Alvarez / Clayton State University

September 16, 2019 Susan McFarlane-Alvarez / Clayton State University One comment

Through a close analysis of Gary Clark Jr.’s “This Land” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Susan McFarlane-Alvarez locates important negotiations of what constitutes belonging and country (western).

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