Suchergebnisse

Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates.

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually and analytically, the collection dismantles taken-for-granted ideas that the West is the source and focus of high-end and hyper-desirable material cultures. It explores what the culture of consumption means in Africa in both historical and contemporary contexts, studying diverse luxury phenomena including fashion advertising, reality television, retail, gendered consumption and gardening to re-centre the discussion on existing contemporary luxury cultures across the continent.

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually and analytically, the collection dismantles taken-for-granted ideas that the West is the source and focus of high-end and hyper-desirable material cultures. It explores what the culture of consumption means in Africa in both historical and contemporary contexts, studying diverse luxury phenomena including fashion advertising, reality television, retail, gendered consumption and gardening to re-centre the discussion on existing contemporary luxury cultures across the continent.

Abstract: My project traces the evolution of African-American women's attitudes and perceptions that has culminated in the natural hair phenomena. Through a historical lense, the various political, economic, and social factors that have influenced the way in which African-American women have examined their own hair are highlighted and juxtaposed through literature and beauty shop talk. From the mid-twentieth Century to modern-day a dynamic between self-perception and historical depictions of hair are traced to show the particular relationships black women have had towards their identity through hair itself. The aesthetics of identity will then be approached towards the conception of hair styling both physically and psychologically for African-American women. From a historical analysis of the changes in the styling of African-American Women's hair, in particular the historical shifts present in the Black Power movement and then the natural hair movement, we may also detail accompanying shifts in perceptions of identity against conceptions of beauty.

This work treats very important questions on the existing crises between art and politics, communication (expression) and repression as well as the question of freedom as a requisite to artistic production. The role of arts as negation of sub-human condition imposed by the colonizers and the consequent conception of artistic expression as a way to regain the authentic mankind is emphasized and considered strongly. ; O artigo coloca questões de grande importância acerca das relações entre arte e política, expressão e opressão e trata com propriedade do problema da liberdade como requisito da produção artística. O papel da arte como negação da condição sub-humana imposta pelo colonizador e a consequente concepção da expressão artística como via da recuperação da humanidade autêntica é enfatizado e tratado com relevância que o tema merece.