Historicizing the Shadows and the Acts: No Way Out and the Imagining of Black Activist Communities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan De Rosa
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. DeFrantz

This chapter considers concepts of activism and Black presence in experiences of dance in museums. Working through concepts of Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and the theoretical gathering notion of a Black Commons, I will offer four case studies of dance in the museum that render the space towards collective Black possibilities. The choreographic works Dapline! (2016), fastPASTdance (2017), as well as a reconstruction of Instead of Allowing Some Thing to Rise Up to Your Face Dancing Bruce and Dance and Other Things (2000) and the moving-image object APESHIT (2018) offer evidence of a special possibility for Black dance in the museum space; a creation of social space too-often denied to Black people in diaspora.


Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 121-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Edmondson

From the 1820s to the 1850s, the black press, with early support from white abolitionists, published historical essays on the St. Domingue slave rebellion for new generations of readers. The purpose was to exhort free black readers to emulate the vigor of the St. Dominguan rebels in taking control of their communities and personal lives. In this essay, I address how antebellum black activist writers formulated a St. Domingue legacy to unite free black communities, to promote literacy education, and to build firm moral character.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (20) ◽  
pp. 50-77
Author(s):  
Nicolas Wasser

Este artigo trata de conflitos culturais e de movimentos contracorrentes que atualmente ocorrem em torno de gênero. Nos últimos anos, observa-se a formação de um movimento musical LGBT brasileiro, liderado por linguagens trans e negras, incluindo artistas como Liniker, As Bahias e a Cozinha Mineira, Linn da Quebrada e, ainda, pop stars, como Pabllo Vittar. Tal movimento articula um impactante campo de agenciamento de gêneros e sexualidades contemporâneas. Neste artigo, analisa-se o seu impacto não apenas a partir de sua linguagem interseccional e de suas políticas LGBT, mas também através da dinâmica conflituosa que o expõe aos chamados movimentos antigênero. Como será mostrado, esses contramovimentos fazem uso de diferentes ataques digitais às cantoras LGBT, que permitem radicalizar o ódio, mais geral, voltado contra supostos traidores da nação.Abstract This article deals with cultural conflicts and countercurrent movements that currently occur around gender. In recent years, a Brazilian LGBT musical movement emerged, including artists such as Liniker, As Bahias and Cozinha Mineira, Linn da Quebrada and also pop stars, such as Pabllo Vittar. Led by trans and black activist discourse, this movement articulates a relevant field of agency of contemporary genders and sexualities. In this article, its impact is analyzed not only from its intersectional language and its LGBT politics, but also through the conflicting dynamics that expose it to so-called anti-gender movements. As will be shown, these countermovements are using different digital attacks on LGBT singers that allow to radicalize hatred towards supposed traitors of the nation.


Author(s):  
Emma J. Folwell

Chapter four traces the intersection between Mississippi’s long freedom struggle and the federally funded war on poverty in the state capitol, Jackson. First, it describes the development of the capitol’s civil rights activism through the 1950s and into the 1960s, with sit-in campaigns drawing on the vibrancy of Tougaloo College, the Jackson NAACP Youth Council, and the leadership of Medgar Evers. The chapter then explores the way in which the class divisions which undermined activism in Jackson fed into the creation of the city’s anti-poverty program, Community Services Association. It traces the way in which one black activist and poverty warrior, Don Jackson, used his position in the Neighborhood Youth Corps to foster the city’s youthful activism. These efforts were, however, quickly undermined by the city’s powerful mechanisms of white supremacy, notably the state sovereignty commission.


2020 ◽  
pp. 089443932091485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deen Freelon ◽  
Michael Bossetta ◽  
Chris Wells ◽  
Josephine Lukito ◽  
Yiping Xia ◽  
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The recent rise of disinformation and propaganda on social media has attracted strong interest from social scientists. Research on the topic has repeatedly observed ideological asymmetries in disinformation content and reception, wherein conservatives are more likely to view, redistribute, and believe such content. However, preliminary evidence has suggested that race may also play a substantial role in determining the targeting and consumption of disinformation content. Such racial asymmetries may exist alongside, or even instead of, ideological ones. Our computational analysis of 5.2 million tweets by the Russian government-funded “troll farm” known as the Internet Research Agency sheds light on these possibilities. We find stark differences in the numbers of unique accounts and tweets originating from ostensibly liberal, conservative, and Black left-leaning individuals. But diverging from prior empirical accounts, we find racial presentation—specifically, presenting as a Black activist—to be the most effective predictor of disinformation engagement by far. Importantly, these results could only be detected once we disaggregated Black-presenting accounts from non-Black liberal accounts. In addition to its contributions to the study of ideological asymmetry in disinformation content and reception, this study also underscores the general relevance of race to disinformation studies.


Literator ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
H. Human

This article looks critically at the aspect of charactarisation in the film Cry Freedom. A model is introduced for the analysis of characterisation in feature films. The model analyses the main characters in the film as symbols of the intended message. The aim is to determine the meaning of the message and to place the response to the film in perspective. Particular attention is paid to the following aspects of the process of character creation: character formation, character revelation and character development. The author comes to the conclusion that the main character in the film is the scriptwriter Donald Woods, and not the black activist, Steve Biko as has generally been accepted.


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