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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Afro-pessimism"”.
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
… Me, and Get Out as texts which share a similarly afro-pessimistic understanding of black life as defined by this relationship to systemic racist violence. These readings protest the precariousness of black life to everyday racist violence by offering space for empathetic engagement between black …
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
… mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism.
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The philatelic imagination of pan-African independence under platform capitalism
… from the post-nationalist perspective of Afro-pessimism as defined by Kobena Mercer, the artworks situate their artistic reflection within an expanded lineage of Afro-pessimism redefined as the artistic critique of the limits of decolonisation understood as Okwui Enwezor’s biography of …
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Of sunsets, savages, and soccer framing Africa during the final days of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… between news channels. From the negativity of Afro-pessimism and threatening connotations of tribes and rampant warfare, to the notion of untouched wilderness, abundant natural resources, and financial miracles in recent years, Africa has many representations within the media. Sadly, many …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… through an exploration of the representation of Afro-identities strongly rooted into mimicry within the microcosmic cultural sphere of Hindustani cinema. Finally, it contends that the representation of the colour line has undergone an aestheticization as a result of the gentrification of …
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
… of Rwanda by the West, with a focus on afro-pessimism. Through this analysis, I will argue for the value they possess as a medium in being able to not only raise awareness about the genocide, but to also convey salient information, to viewers. Films are not substitutes for written …
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“I’ve Been Murdered”: An Autoethnographic Narrative of the School-to-Death Nexus
… trans, nonbinary, and Black student. Guided by afro-pessimism, I critically examine 151 personal journal entries between 2011 and 2022 that illuminate the role of schooling in my mortality as a Black student. My writing examines the trauma caused by oppressive education systems that limit …
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Fashionable addiction : the impact of digital identity through the cult of the body (an African perspective, with particular reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo)
… the debate around issues of representation and ‘afro pessimism’ generated by Hugo’s images, my motivation in using them is that they provide sufficient documentation of the realities of disposing of electronic waste and the impact on people and the environment pertaining to those particulars …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
Education is usually framed as critical for saving Black youth. From beyond their passing, dead Black youth call for a critical stance on US educational institutions. This study adopts this critical stance. Such a critical stance allows me to ask: What do educational institutions, and their …