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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: 7 years, 10 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 […]
Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Butler: Emphasizing the “Afro” in Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 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 […]
Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Afrofuturism in furniture in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 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 […]
Izzy Graziano wrote a new blog post The appropriation of black repetition in the group American Studies: 7 years, 11 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 […]
Izzy Graziano edited the blog post Libretto: Liberia within Afrofuturism in the group American Studies: 7 years, 12 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 […]
Izzy Graziano edited the blog post The confidence of repetition in black culture in the group American Studies: 8 years 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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