Publication alert: Race & holograms in Tulsa

I had been excited to share a new article this week — but I kinda got DOGE'd!

On the heels of several weeks of ethnographic research at Greenwood Rising — a museum conveying experiences before, during, and after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — I wrote "Greenwood Rising: Immersion and Interpellation" for Oklahoma Humanities magazine. The piece sums up some initial thinking about a unique mixed-reality exhibit in the museum, a barbershop in which visitors can sit and get a haircut from three holographic barbers, and the resulting research will comprise the final chapter in my forthcoming book, Looking Through You: Digital Holograms and the New Technical Image.

However, Oklahoma Humanities was just notified that its NEH funding (a majority of its budget) had been eliminated as part of the utterly irresponsible cuts made through the new federal government's ham-fisted DOGE office. As a result, the tech-themed spring-summer edition of the magazine, which was due to hit the streets this week, cannot be printed.

But they had at least designed it — so the full issue is available online as a PDF here, and my article can be downloaded here.

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