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Grainger Flint wrote a new blog post Retrofuture of Dirty Computer in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 5 months agoMonáe’s Dirty Computer is a vision of the future from a point in time that is clearly not the present, but more like the late eighties or early nineties. Honestly the setting in certain scenes reminds me of the 19 […]
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Grainger Flint wrote a new blog post “Non-Zero Probabilities” and the Afrofuturistic in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 5 months agoThe piece by Jemisin was a great read that even though it was about someone just going about their life in a “more” luck effected city, it made me want more. With that said, this piece, in my opinion, is not […]
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Grainger Flint commented on the post, The Forces We Bring-Kazon Robinson, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 4 years, 5 months agoI really like how you give some more context to Snead’s comments, on the differences between the cultures, by using that quote from Du Bois. It gets the point across and now I am left wondering what that means for […]
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Grainger Flint wrote a new blog post Afrofuturism in Food in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 6 months agoWhen asked to find a text to look at for Afrofuturism, I thought I’d look at a topic that everyone is involved with everyday, food. Food is an important part of everyone’s life and it can be a source of connection […]
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Grainger Flint commented on the post, Blog Post Week 2, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 4 years, 6 months agoYour dive into the Al Sirat and the research you did about it is really enlightening. I was also confused, especially with the amount of references that he made that I had no knowledge of. The Al Sirat idea of a […]
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Grainger Flint commented on the post, Week 3 Blog, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 4 years, 6 months agoI like the points you brought up in the first paragraph, and I wonder if there are any examples outside of the reading that would back up Snead’s point even more than you already do. I am right there with you in […]
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Grainger Flint wrote a new blog post Lack of Nature in Western Culture in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 6 months agoThe passage from Snead that focused on repetition was really informative for me. He claims that the lack of repetition in Western culture is truly at odds with, not only the cultures of Asia and Africa, but nature […]
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Grainger Flint edited the blog post On Tolson’s “Libretto for the Republic of Liberia” in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 6 months agoTowards the end of the poem, Tolson starts to write of Le Premier des Noirs of Pan-African Airways. Contrasting with the beginning of the poem, this section begins to illustrate not the history of Africa, but w […]
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Grainger Flint edited the blog post What the Hegel? in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago“Slavery is in and for itself injustice, for the essence of humanity is Freedom; but for this man must be matured. The gradual abolition of slavery is therefore wiser and more equitable than its sudden removal.” ( […]
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