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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 ago

Janelle 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 […]
Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 months ago

The 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 […]
Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post How the World was Made- a Super Crown in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 months ago

While 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 […]
Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Blog Post Week 3 in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 months ago

What 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 […]
Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Blog Post Week 2 in the group American Studies: 7 years, 12 months ago

Tolson’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 […]
Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Repetition in Culture in the group American Studies: 8 years ago

Repetition 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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