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Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Afrofuturism in Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 10 months agoJanelle Monae’s Dirty Computer is set in the future. It is a time where differentiating qualities are not valued. If you are “dirty” you get stripped off your memories of the past and become “clean”.
There […]
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Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoThe Parable of the Sower is a novel set in California in 2024-2027. It is the near future where Butler envisions a gated society in the fictional town of Robledo. This science fiction novel has a young black […]
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Afrofuturism in furniture, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 11 months agoThat is a very interesting point you bring up. This show that afrofuturism can be expressed in such a variety of mediums. This is also a very helpful example to understand Snead’s quote on page 65.
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Afrofuturism in Rap music, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 11 months agoI agree with you when you said that most of the music genres in America are black music. I can definitely see Vince Staples’ Big Fish Theory album as being afrofuturistic. I like how you compared it to Sun Ra […]
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Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post How the World was Made- a Super Crown in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoWhile searching for an afrofuturistic piece of work, I found this poem written by Rodger Bonair-Agard. The poem titled How the World was Made- a Super Crown incorporates aspects of West African and Caribbean […]
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, My Perception of Culture, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 11 months agoI also thought about the concept of culture developing due to survival of the people. I think many cultures have had practices develop due to having to survive, may it be due to colonization, famine, extreme […]
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Lack of Nature in Western Culture, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 11 months agoThat is a very interesting point you brought up. I had never thought of the lack of the importance and of nature in Western culture. Many rituals and holidays in Non-Western cultures have to do with the […]
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Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Blog Post Week 3 in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoWhat has really interested me in this class is analyzing afrofuturism in different mediums; not just literature. I like that we watch clips of Black Panther and talk about the artistic choices made to portray […]
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, On Tolson’s “Libretto for the Republic of Liberia”, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 12 months agoI agree with your point that Tolson is emphasizing viewing Africa for what it truly is and not for what European colonizers made it seem to be. You brought up some great points!
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Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Week 2 Response, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 12 months agoI agree that the FA section had many cultural references. I also thought it was interesting that Tolson used the soflège scale to categorize the poem. I think Tolson was portraying the progress of Liberia in […]
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Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Blog Post Week 2 in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 12 months agoTolson’s Libretto for Liberia is a poem in which he views the history of Liberia and portrays a future for the country. It includes the past, present and future. Every section of the poem is represented by a note […]
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Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Repetition in Culture in the group
American Studies: 8 years agoRepetition that seems like “‘a quality of difference’ compared to what has gone before” is a constant is one of James A. Snead’s claims in Repetition as a figure of black culture. Snead says that human culture […]
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