In this assertion, I also argue that this current era, paralleling the Black Lives Matter movement, is worthy of Black art movement signification, if we update the mediums by which the conditions are met in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement.Reed, Corey...
that we have forgotten what sort of space the space of popular culture is. And black popular culture is not exempt from that dialectic, which is historical, not a matter of bad faith. It is therefore necessary to deconstruct the popular once and for all. There is no going back to an in...
Descriptions of the lives of slaves in Jamaica in the seventeenth century by English clergyman the Rev. John Taylor stress the “great veneration” which the slaves had for “the Earth.” It may be precisely because land and labor were regarded as private property that the earth became a sou...
Leah V’s fat body is being labelled ‘disgusting’ and ‘a disgrace’ and works as a surface onto which a multitude of signs and emotions arestuck, most of them with negative signification (Ahmed2004). It is a body to expel through vomiting, what Kristeva (1982) defines as abjection. Y...
such as Nigerian Lives Matter, that links different significations of aesthetic practices' negotiations for social change in different locales shows the potential of the decussation of language and performance to form an audience in multiple spaces and for those multifarious political acts to add up...
This attention to Equiano is not as the adherent of mainline or normative Christian tradition, but rather as the creator of a dominant signification. Equiano is disrupting the "sacred" public of whiteness and normative Christianity and offering an example of creating alternative scripts and making a...
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