How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution
African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US
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Black film
How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,
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The Intersections of Blackness and Disability
I’m listening to jazz as I write this review. This was an intentional decision as I felt Therí Alyce Pickens’s
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Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death
*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video
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Countering the Jaggedness– Shabez Jamal and New Black Surrealisms
*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent and features
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