On September 26, 2016, a white supremacist group calling itself “Identity Evropa” (@IdentityEvropa) used Twitter to announce a new campaign called #ProjectSiege. The campaign would target college campuses across the nation with eye-catching posters designed to glorify white European identity and the politics of the Alt-Right. Pairing glossy images of classical and Renaissance sculptures like…
Author: Heidi Morse
Heidi Morse is a lecturer in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her book-in-progress, Teaching and Testifying: Black Women’s American Classicism, narrates the hidden history of 19th century black women’s adaptations of classical Greek and Roman literature, art, and rhetoric in the pursuit of racial justice. She is co-editor, with Ian Moyer and Adam Lecznar, of Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019) and has articles published or forthcoming in Comparative Literature, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies.