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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 34–49.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and cultural resources. Through their art, the ambiguous contours of Carnival are outlined, emphasizing its subversive and decolonial essence. In its choreography of celebration, resistance, and critique, Carnival establishes itself as a space for innovation, questioning, and sociocultural reflection...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 8–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
...-roots culture into highbrow capital. The author argues that the movement resisted the “museum exhibit” of the dominant-culture industry by dramatizing the tension points between inner space, outside space, and unbound space. The aesthetic warfare of the movement is shown to be a struggle against...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 152–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Naminata Diabate Cultural products and discourses about erotic pleasure have recently proliferated, leading to what the author calls “the pleasure turn.” In studies of African culture, “the pleasure turn” can be read as decentering the dominant paradigm that has mostly associated black nakedness...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 184–191.
Published: 01 November 2021
... struggle between, on the one hand, the old and neocolonial cultural hegemony and, on the other hand, the subversive resistance by the neocolonized, with all the paradoxical elements that are part and parcel of that struggle. One of the few manifestations of a surrealism-inspired cinematic work in the Arab...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 122–133.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Celeste-Marie Bernier Black British artist Barbara Walker works across multiple narrative series to create hard-hitting dramatic tableaux in which she does powerful justice to the psychological, physical, emotional, cultural, social, and imaginative realities of lives as lived by black women, men...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 134–141.
Published: 01 November 2016
... upon hand gestures—and particularly upon clenched fists. Indeed, the repetition of the motif seemed to imply a transhistorical reading of the fist as a symbol: the removal of historical detail and the use of pan-African titles positioned the clenched fist as a static gesture of resistance. A closer...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 64–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
... cultural resistance excess hybrid Mntambo Nandipha new media Neo-Baroque spectacle STEVEN COHEN, NANDIPHA MNTAMBO Neo-Baroque Hybrid Forms Lisa Greyvenstein n contemporary South African art a Neo- Baroque...
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 60–65.
Published: 01 May 2002
... (Niggas With Attitude) provided me an outlet for my rage and M.C. Hammer made me wanna dance. The cultural resistance within hip-hop refused the "we...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 62–71.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of black cultural resistance, the culture wars is the Black Arts movement, since with the tradition of black cultural resistance itself. this phenomenon has become a particular target of For example, while the originals reliably denounced neocon rewritings of history: neocons have blamed Hollywood’s...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 92–97.
Published: 01 May 2009
... cultural hegemonic enterprise had to be resisted in 1673 and eventually an overseas department of and fought by Cesaire and others of his ilk. France in 1946. Beyond the historical French connection, it is That French presence lasted for 373 years...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 146–159.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the practice of adornment as an assertion of dignity and humanity within a society that has denigrated, fetishized, and exploited the Black body. She acknowledges African diaspora hair craft as a key aspect of cultural resistance, community, and creative expression throughout the generations. Clark has...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Gilane Tawadros sip wine and talk about the community developed by artists living in Brixton squats in the 1980s. Boyce tells Tawadros that the only way to fight back at the time was through cultural resistance; Black artists had no intention of leaving Britain. The film Les rêves intermixes fiction...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 90–101.
Published: 01 May 2007
... culture has self-consciously embraced black stereotypes and outlaw personas such as the pimp, the gangsta, the ho, and the thug, the high art...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 26–33.
Published: 01 May 2001
... resisted. Why would I want to be that? lam interested in African American culture but I have no interest in being that curator which...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 206–207.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in the early twen• tieth century, outlining its origins in resistance, connection to black cultur• al politics, and continued current deployment in contemporary criticism. His treatment of selected moments in the work of contemporary African American artists Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, William...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 34–46.
Published: 01 November 2022
...? It is the material status of the passbook as an object with profound psychic and corporeal ties to its Black bearers that I contend with in this article. Since the early twentieth century, passes have been resisted and materially contested. They have been burned and discarded, manipulated and stolen, lost...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to return to and cultivate his original tween African nations and peoples throughout the cultural traditions by turning to his people’s “oldest, diaspora who shared an interest in resisting Euro- inner essence, the farthest removed from colonial pean and white domination. Here the narrative of times...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., proclamations like Fire! Burn! and Blood! became synonymous with the Rastafari youth culture of resistance and anticolonialism in the 1950s. To call down fire, he said, was to declare hostility. 20 Accounts given Film still from Pressure, 1975. © British Film Institute Espert Nka 51 by Chevannes also...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 6–15.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tanya Sheehan True to its cultural roots in the United States, the field of American art history has been slow to recognize centuries of slavery’s shaping of visual production and has only begun to address historiography’s persistent devaluation of Black lives. This article explores how scholars...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 108–124.
Published: 01 November 2017
... lays claim to the indivis- Western art history’s acts of cultural ghettoization ible relationship between arts of representation and and eradication of black artistic production in a acts of resistance...