Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Nurdan Akiner
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Original Screenplay ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Academy Award

The colonial discourse racially defined the others and distinguished between people regarded as barbarous, infidels, and savage, such as the inhabitants of America and Africa. The formal abolition of slavery has not been the solution for Blacks, but they have often been subjected to the domination of sovereign ideology at different social life levels. The dominant ideology in USA is also influential in representing Blacks in the cultural industry. This chapter examines the 2017 film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, as an example of the recent diversity positive trend in Hollywood. Peele is the first Black screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was analyzed by Roland Barthes's semiotics theory and Frantz Fanon's critical theory Fanonism. This research shows that Get Out is truly a Black renaissance in Hollywood. The signs of racism skillfully placed in the film were analyzed by focusing on denotative and connotative meanings, and the racial oppression faced by African-Americans throughout history was revealed by regarding Fanonism.

Mapping Logistical Capitalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642199042
Author(s):  
Eugene Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Class Composition

This review article engages with a rich field of scholarship on logistics that has gathered momentum over the past decade, focusing on two new publications by Laleh Khalili and Martín Arboleda. It contextualizes how and why logistics is bound up with the militarization of contemporary political and social life. I argue that the later 20th century rise of logistics can be better understood as both a response to and symptom of capitalist crisis and I situate this scholarship on war and logistics in relationship to Giovanni Arrighi’s account of crisis and ‘unravelling hegemony’. I also show how logistics provides essential critical and visual resources that contribute to efforts to map global capitalism and to debates on totality and class composition in contemporary critical theory. Finally, contemporary events such as the ongoing Coronavirus crisis and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter are considered in light of this analysis with reference to the centrality of logistics to racial capitalism.

scholarly journals Book Review: History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Trent Shotwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
African American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Thomas J. Davis chronicles the remarkable past of African Americans from the earliest arrival of their ancestors to the election of President Barack Obama. This work was produced to recognize every triumph and tragedy that separates African Americans as a group from others in America. By distinguishing the rich and unique history of African Americans, History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots provides an account of inspiration, courage, and progress. Each chapter details a significant piece of African American history, and the book includes numerous concise portraits of prominent African Americans and their contributions to progressing social life in the United States.

Samson and the Making of American Martyrs

Black Samson ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Nyasha Junior ◽  
Jeremy Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Political Compromise ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
John Brown

By the 1850s, some abolitionists had begun to use the term “Samson” to refer to those involved in insurrections by enslaved persons. By the dawn of the Civil War, they extended that term to describe real-life persons who fought to end slavery. In the last half of the nineteenth century, poets, clergy, scholars, and other intellectuals began to identify biblical Samson with historical individuals who challenged racial oppression in America. The biblical hero had already become a potent symbol of African Americans’ collective strength in the fight against slavery and other barriers to social advancement. Eventually, he became associated with those who took up this struggle through passionate rhetoric, violence, and, at times, political compromise. In the process, persons like John Brown, Fredrick Douglass, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, and Booker T. Washington became memorialized as larger-than-life Samson figures.

scholarly journals THE ASSOCIATION OF LONELINESS AND CHRONIC CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT PAIN AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S613-S613
Author(s):  
David Camacho ◽  
Denise Burnette ◽  
Maria P Aranda ◽  
Ellen Lukens
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Social Life ◽  
White Women ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Biopsychosocial Model Of Pain

Abstract Loneliness and pain are significant public health problems in later life, yet limited research has examined how these factors interact among racially diverse older adults. Guided by the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain, we used data from Waves 2 and 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project to investigate the relationship between loneliness and chronic pain among 1,102 African-American and White adults aged 50 and over. Using logistic regression analyses, our final models considered demographics, physical and mental health, functioning, medication, health behaviors and social factors. Approximately 32% of African Americans and 28% of Whites reported chronic loneliness. Compared to Whites African-Americans were 2.5 times more likely to experience chronic pain. Among White participants, loneliness was not associated with chronic pain; however, the interaction of being African-American and lonely was associated with decreased odds of chronic pain in main and gendered analyses. African American women were 4 times more likely than White women to report chronic pain. Our results address the objectives of the National Pain Strategy (2016) to elucidate the experiences of chronic pain among diverse elders in the US. Future work should seek a deeper understanding of loneliness and chronic pain among African Americans elders and how cultural dynamics may help explain our counter intuitive findings (e.g., “Superwoman Schema”).

TRADITIONAL MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE VOLGA AND URAL REGIONS: THE MULTI-ETHNIC DIMENSION

Servis plus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Фаридэ Салитова ◽  
Faride Salitova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Cultural Traditions

The article analyzes the phenomenon of the traditional musical culture of ethnic groups of the Volga and Ural regions of the Turkic, Finno-Ugrian and Slavic origin, developed in the course of a permanent diversified mutual influence and mutual enrichment of distinctive ethnic, religious, regional and local components. Sam- ples of the music archaic Bashkir, Mari, Mordovian, Russian, Tatar, Udmurt and other ethnic groups living in these regions, as well as written and archaeological sources, reveal the formation of the geographical area, since the early Middle Ages, cultural space, characterized, in spite of the uniqueness of the individual compo- nents, significant unity and high moral and aesthetic potential. However, the trend of globalization in the mod- ern world is known to endanger the preservation of traditional cultural values. In this regard, they update the issue of preserving the cultural heritage of past eras, which can be solved by incorporating a modern cultural and educational environment in authentic forms, and various kinds of professional performing arts, creative composer, musical enlightenment and education. Special mention should be the aspect of existence of the tra- ditional musical culture in the social life of the region, as a regenerated ancient festivals and folklore festivals, which clearly demonstrate the relevance of ancestral cultural traditions of the Volga and Ural. Today we can observe a positive trend of revival of cultural traditions prevailing in the early stages of the ethnic history of the region. This great potential is the intrinsic moral and aesthetic value, and effective means of harmonization of interethnic and interfaith relations, the formation of a harmoniously developed personality in the realities of the modern multicultural society with a view to the formation of tolerant consciousness of new generations.

scholarly journals Female, Black, and Able: Representations of Sojourner Truth and Theories of Embodiment

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minister
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African Americans ◽  
White Men ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Sojourner Truth ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

<p>Sojourner Truth exists in American popular culture as a strong contributor to the movements for abolition and women&rsquo;s rights. In order to maintain this image of strength and make the case that black women are just as capable as white men, Truth intentionally elided her disabled right hand. This article explores representations of Sojourner Truth in relation to her nineteenth century context and, in particular, social stigmas regarding race, gender and disability. The interpretations of pictures, a painting, and two events contained in Truth's Narrative suggest that Truth argued against gender and racial oppression by operating with an ideology of ability that suggested that both women and African-Americans are strong, powerful, and able. As Truth maintained an ideology of ability in order to subvert gender and racial hierarchies, she offers a case study into the benefits of intersectional approaches to historical studies.</p><p>Key Words</p><p>Sojourner Truth, disability, race, gender, feminism, nineteenth century</p>

You Must Remember This

2018 ◽  
pp. 155-182
Author(s):  
Nina Silber
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
World War ◽  
White Southerners ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
At Home

In the lead up to World War II, and in the course of the war itself, memories of the Civil War were deployed once again. This time, the war, the fight against slavery, and Lincoln in particular, assumed noteworthy prominence, reminding Americans of the importance of fighting a just and moral war. However, this created a challenging rhetorical environment for cementing a united homefront – including both white southerners and African Americans. White southerners, like Douglas Freeman, tried to keep Confederates prominent in the Civil War narrative, while black Americans used the new emphasis on Lincoln to talk about racial oppression at home and abroad. An anti-communist backlash, in the end, helped silence voices that focused on problems of racial oppression.

A Passionate Addiction to Lincoln

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Nina Silber
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
State Building ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
White People ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Political Interests

No historical figure became as prominent in 1930s America as Abraham Lincoln. Once seen mainly as a figure of moderation and reconciliation, Lincoln became a more powerful figure associated with state building and the broadly defined work of emancipation. Under the influence of poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, important parallels were drawn between Lincoln and FDR. Yet, because of Roosevelt’s limited attention to racial oppression, there was a tendency to make Lincoln a more race neutral figure, one who freed white people more than black. At the same time, African Americans, who were increasingly shifting their political interests to the Democratic Party, invested Lincoln with more of a racial justice agenda. Conservatives, for their part, took aim at the way New Dealers and Popular Fronters re-imagined Lincoln, especially on the Federal stage.

scholarly journals Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Socioeconomic Disparity ◽  
Antidiscrimination Law ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Martin Luther King

In 1984, President Reagan signed a bill that created the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. The Commission was charged with the responsibility of issuing guidelines for states and localities to follow in preparing their observances of Martin Luther King's birthday. The Commission's task would not be easy. Although King's birthday had come to symbolize the massive social movement that grew out of efforts of African-Americans to end the long history of racial oppression in America, the first official observance of the holiday would take place in the face of at least two disturbing obstacles: first, a constant, if not increasing, socioeconomic disparity between the races, and second, a hostile administration devoted to changing the path of civil rights reforms that some believe responsible for most of the movement's progress.

Who is the ‘communis’ in sensus communis? A response to Ferrara

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Lois McNay
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
False Dilemma ◽  
Conceptual Necessity ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Directing Attention ◽  
Practical Logic

Of the many interesting points that Alessandro Ferrara raises in reply to my article, I focus in response on the question of context transcendence for, as well as seeming to lie at the heart of our differences, it is of foundational importance to the tradition of critical theory which influences both our work. I agree with Ferrara about the ‘conceptual necessity’ of context transcendence for critique but I disagree with the assumption that he makes that experientially grounded critique is necessarily inimical to context transcendence. I argue that this need not be the case if we conceive of the transcending capacity of thought in ways that are more compatible with the practical logic of social life, for example, in the historicized terms of a sociolinguistic expressivism. Ferrara’s elision of experientially grounded critique with radical contextualism tout court sets up something of a false dilemma between immanence and transcendence which ultimately serves to justify his reliance on the dubious ahistorical construct of sensus communis. By directing attention away from patterns of agency and struggle and towards a hypothetical normative commonality, sensus communis neutralizes democratic conflict and the political significance of the exemplar. It is not a question of choosing between immanence and transcendence, rather the task that confronts the theorist is to inhabit the space between experiential disclosure and generalizing critique in as productive and dialogical manner as possible. It is within these terms that I suggest a politicized reading of exemplarity.

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