by admin | Feb 19, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop |
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf” width=”430″ height=”346″ fvars=”m=1931387367;type=video” wmode=”transparent” /] Thanks to the folks at Hip Hop Politics.
by admin | Feb 17, 2007 | Afrofuturism
So I’m watching Sweetback’s Badass Song for the Black Power Fantasies course I am co-teaching with Stanford Carpenter. What we don’t really have a handle on is how transformative the black power period was. There are a whole set of propositions that...
by admin | Jan 26, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
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by admin | Jan 20, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Mat Johnson’s cooking with gas. I don’t know how I got put down with Niggerati Manor. Probably Tayari. Yes. Tayari. I see a great deal of promise in the explosion of Urban Fiction. But for writers like Mat and Tayari, this promise is fraught with…I...
by admin | Jan 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Democracy |
Obama plans on running. One of my colleagues sends me an article. Turns out he doesn’t exactly move “civil rights leaders”. Now I put the term in quote because while the article talks about civil rights leaders in the aggregate it only quotes a few....
by admin | Dec 22, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I don’t know if they’d call it a manifesto, but what the folks at Democracy and Hip-hop have laid down certainly reads like one. Let me say at the outset that this is the type of critical work that we need to be creating and fighting about. This is the...
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