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Izzy Graziano wrote a new blog post Janelle Monáe Learned from the 60s: Lorde’s Legacy in Dirty Computer in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
While speaking on Malcom X at Harvard in 1982, Audre Lorde foregrounded the imperative of intersectionality in social movements. Whereas most people maintain several complex, interacting identities, popular […]
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Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Butler: Emphasizing the “Afro” in Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
Standard conceptualizations of Afrofuturism tend to focus heavily on the technological aspect of futurity, particularly as seen in Black Panther, with their tech developments, and even in Space is the Place, which […]
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Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Afrofuturism in furniture in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
When I started looking for Afrofuturism case studies, I mostly understood the kinds of art that fell into the category, but really struggled to see more day-to-day manifestations of the same Afrofuturist […]
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Izzy Graziano commented on the post, Renee Cox (Afrofuturism), on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 7 months ago
I kind of struggled to pin down what I even thought I could consider Afrofuturist as well. The painting you talked about sounds really interesting, and it seems like it plays a lot on the idea of imagining a world […]
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Izzy Graziano commented on the post, Afrofuturism in Food, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 7 months ago
I think this is such a cool idea, especially in the way that it highlights the connection between repetition and reinvention. From my perspective, it seems like food really symbolizes Snead’s way of situating r […]
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Izzy Graziano wrote a new blog post The appropriation of black repetition in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
General understandings of time tend generally, but wrongly, to conflate change with progress. In Snead’s writing, however, he parses out the implications of repetition and change, particularly along the b […]
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Izzy Graziano commented on the post, Keep to the Rhythm-Kazon Robinson, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 7 months ago
I think you do a really good job of explaining Snead’s interpretation of Hegel, and how they both in a way shared their underestimation of blackness. I also think it’s really interesting how you connected Heg […]
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Izzy Graziano commented on the post, , on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 7 months ago
I definitely agree with the connection that you made to Black Panther. I think reading DuBois helps us understand Killmonger’s inner struggle a lot better and approach the character with more empathy. Looking at K […]
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Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Libretto: Liberia within Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
In Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, a moment arrived early in the piece that helped me conceptualize Tolson’s writing within the framework of Afrofuturism as the interface of activism and art […]
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Izzy Graziano edited the blog post The confidence of repetition in black culture in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
Standard conceptualizations of culture account for both tradition and, seemingly inevitably, progression as a function of passing time. In his analysis, however, Snead establishes white/European culture and black […]
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Izzy Graziano joined the group American Studies 5 years, 7 months ago
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Izzy Graziano joined the group American Studies 5 years, 7 months ago
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