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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... place and time act as means of conjuring narratives of collective memory, of multiple pasts always within reach of the present, across the African diaspora. Finally, the essay considers how Diasporadical Trilogía in particular embraces fantasy as a liberatory form, a means of resistance to notions...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... African Americans (want), they want their traditional dances, they want their roots. But we can also invent a new dance.” 43 Here, the discord lies in the African Diaspora seeking African dances preserved in their traditional form, while continental African dancemakers are stretching those dances...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Nuyoricans Bronx Gothic African diaspora Figure 1. Renoly Santiago in Ominous Men (2016), written by Desi Moreno-Penson, directed by Lorca Peress, MultiStages co-presentation with the Theater at the 14th Street Y, New York, October 19–November...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Orleans. These practices produce new geographies of hope in the face of uncertainty. 12 Souther, “Suburban Swamp.” 13 I situate limbologics within genealogies of African Diasporic performance and Joseph Roach's integration of New Orleans cultural performances within the broader diaspora. See...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 102–109.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., I see them as diasporic cultural producers, and therefore, my work is oriented toward the diaspora. Campt asks, “How do we build a radical visual archive of the African diaspora that grapples with the recalcitrant and the disaffected, the unruly and the dispossessed?” Campt, Listening to Images...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., including the anthologies Black Europe and the African Diaspora (2009) and The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (2014). Given the author's investments in the textures of Black, BlackFem, and Black queer and gender-variant life and aesthetics as explored in the following interview, I read...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... entails the combined experience of beauty and terror, it overlaps significantly with a category of the Gothic, although the poetics of haunting—and the theory of ghosts—has a potentially wider field of relevance in the specific context of slavery and the African diaspora.” 8 What unfurls in this issue...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... on the other side of the hole? Always possibility . Always the future . In “Unspeakable Acts Tempt Violently” from her lyric essay The Black Catatonic Scream , Harmony Holiday describes how “for the African diaspora, the scream has been an emancipatory preoccupation,” that “the presence of catatonia...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 68–91.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... The image's chromatic afterlife brings to mind the manifold symbolic associations of water that might deepen the portrait's resonance with, for instance, the transatlantic journeys of conscripted Africans or emergent diaspora mythologies of the Black Atlantic, at once anticipating and echoing the trauma...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
...) and gruesome imagery (piles of chicken bones, a stolen goat, a slit throat, entrails split in half). Yet the most potent gothic image may be the reference to bitter cassava, a root vegetable and staple throughout the African diaspora including in my own Jamaican culture, because if improperly prepared...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and marginalize black life in the present across the African diaspora. One member of this narrative cohort, James Hannaham's Delicious Foods (2015), depicts a form of modern-day slavery on a southern factory farm worked by predominantly African American drug addicts. They have been transported to the farm...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . Campt Tina . A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2021 . Campt Tina . Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Cannadine David . “ The Context, Performance...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
... it is to sit with that space and, within that, the grotesque, unknowable violence of the creation of the African diaspora. Yet, it was also a generative act, and I would never separate them. I would also never separate this creation of blackness from this grotesque evil. They live together. Having to hold...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., “Music Video and Synaesthetic Possibility,” 22 . 10 Red Bull Music Academy, “Hype Williams.” 11 King, “Rap and Feng Shui,” 433 . 12 Afro-horror, also known as Black horror, utilizes contemporary horror tropes infused with concerns from the African Diaspora around anti-black racism...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... . 18 Estelle, Tobias, and torralba, “Black and Queer.” 19 Richardson, Queer Limit of Black Memory , 6, 4 . 20 Allen, Disco Ball , 262–64 . 21 Knight, Disintegrating the Musical ; Mbembe and Balakrishnan, “Pan-African Legagies,” 30–31 : in “Afropolitanism,” a “planetary...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Gallery. John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Ghana; based in London) is one of the most prolific and influential multiscreen installation artists working on themes of diaspora identity and cultural flows, postcoloniality, migration and refugeeship, and the inextricable links between processes of racialization...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the polyrhythmic can only be explained by a liquid movement. 32 Similarly, as Ekow Eshun suggests with his concept of “liquid Africa,” 33 contemporary artists from the African diaspora (such as Samuel Bazawule, Mati Diop, Yannick Ilunga, Curtis Essel, Grace Wales Bonner, and Harley Weir), who are working...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Pittsburgh : Periscope , 2011 . Welsh Cariama , Diouf Esailama G. A. , and Daniel Yvonne . Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities . Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2019 . ...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Copyright © 2024 Rebecca Kumar 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Moonlight Wong Kar Wai Asian cinema Afro‐Asian ornamentalism queer diaspora Set in Miami, Florida, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016) heavily...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
... forms of movement, rest, and ecstatic experience from across the African diaspora as crucial modes of healing and attunement to the body,” the project also foregrounds a recurring theme in Blount Moorhead's work—the contiguities of black existence, erasure, and survival across time and space. 15...
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