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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 42–49.
Published: 01 November 2011
... failing to incite revolution can be done against a professional army.”3 Gue- there, and Larry Neal would declare the Black Arts vara instead declared: “Where one really learns is movement “the sister to the Black Power concept.”8 in a revolutionary war; every minute teaches you Groups...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 222–232.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the Western conceit of Africa as primitive, his 1960s and early ’70s writings chart a new direction, showing the linked struggle between African independence and the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States. Again, we see another figure of the continent emerging in Baldwin’s late works...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2015
... movement, but also of obliterated by what appear to be rapidly applied ex- the radical politics of the Black Power movement. pressionist strokes of white paint; on the other an However, whereas the iconic symbol of the Black open palm has been given a similar whiteout treat- Power movement...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2020
... movement are critical to this film, as black British and African American activists drive im- portant shifts in the narrative. Ové makes Black Power appear new and strange through the eyes of the film s teenage protagonist, Tony Watson (Herbert Norville). From beginning to end, Tony wanders through...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., and by Sunday morning, forty buildings especially pertinent in the context of the potential had either burned or were in flames, two thousand violence visually represented in the Black Arts and individuals had been arrested, and nine individu- Black Power movements. By incorporating women als—all black...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 4–7.
Published: 01 November 2011
... is radically opposed to any The Black Arts movement of the 1960s and concept of the artist that alienates him from his com- 1970s grew out of the achievements of artists of munity. Black art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister the Harlem Renaissance. These artists found a new of the Black Power concept...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 8–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Black Power movement. The common ground, however, between Wright’s Black Power Wall of Respect, 43rd Street and and the textual production of the Black Arts move- Langley Avenue, Chicago, 1969. ment...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 130–137.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” type Margo Natalie Crawford. Photographer Bob Crawford defies of depiction. the boundaries between documentary-­style photography and art photography. As a photographer of the Black Arts MC: I’m sure you remember the exhibit, Two Schools, New and Black Power movements in the 1960s and 1970s, he...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 82–89.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the representational strategy that would rhetoric of the Black Power movement.7 Of this have us creating visual pleasure through the repre• group, which includes Burnett, Billy Woodberry, sentation of cinematic violence as a visual political Larry Clark, Sharon Larkin, Haile Gerima, and in strategy...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 62–71.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of the under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has Black Power movement — we can reflect at a cooler found its highest expression in the assault on affir- distance that the imagination of an artist, while mative action, insisting that black people function warmed by sympathies and aspirations, needs...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 142–151.
Published: 01 November 2016
... recording and the height of the Black Power movement. The various speakers’ individual statements not only indicate the temporality and variability of blackness, but also...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 28–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
...- tained public exposure for Baraka, his poem, and his views on the utility of riot would easily have reg- istered in the public consciousness—including that of Ringgold’s viewers—as a sense that Black Arts principles, like the larger Black Power movement, comfortably accommodated...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Power Movement and black struggles in America and identifying with independent and antiapartheid movements on the African conti- nents, particularly the June 16, 1976, Soweto Youth Uprising, Rodney s work also refers to black history and the oppression of people of African descent that has occurred over...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 86–99.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and the beginning of world had dealt them similar blows. As Lewis later the Black Power movement in the late 1960s. African American is recalled, “Once we got together in Spiral we became a post–Black Power term that was not in full usage until the late...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 70–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of Haiti—this painting theatrically brings . . . a kind of freedom dream.”24 And it is this spatial together myth and portraiture to construct a movement that Hendricks appears to draw on most powerful narrative of black femininity.26 It draws fully here, an aesthetic that seems to mirror, perhaps...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 50–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... but that would nonetheless mark ing yet another series, America Black, this time to her contribution as singular and indelibly that of a provide the aesthetic accompaniment to the Black person of African descent. The result was her first Power movement. significant series of oil paintings, American People...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 28–37.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and growing their fashion industries, under cally incompatible. South African fashion scholar apartheid, black women and men had restricted legal Leora Farber claims that styles such as the Afro options for exercising physical and financial power. look (and its offspring—Afropolitan, Afro-chic, Spending...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 32–41.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of the princi- summarized her position in a poem: pal figures involved in the visual arts community belonged to any of the competing nationalist orga- I never had the nizations in South Los Angeles. Despite this, the stroke for “mainstream” black liberation movement exercised a powerful, if it went against...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 34–46.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and white between his model and Maudelle sought to advance an image of black the sand, or as Conger writes, "the contrast women as strong, beautiful, powerful, and rooted between the background and her black and shiny to a tradition of dance and movement originating...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2023
... courtesy of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha 44 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 53 November 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10904048 © 2023 by Nka Publications Decolonization Holiday Powers J ilali Gharbaoui is considered a foundational artist in the movement of Moroccan modernism, though...