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Dear White People and Black Liberal Aspirations
*Spoilers Below Justin Simien’s film Dear White People, is a smart, funny, satire (with a handful of surprising twists along the way) that complicates black twenty-somethings’ negotiation of blackness at a predominately white institution of higher education. Aesthetically the film… Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Snowpiercer
*Spoilers all throughout this piece. The train is a lie. It seems likely that it’s conditions for possibility are based on a lie (in my view it seems likely that Wilford manufactured the climate crisis himself or with others in… Continue reading
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Refusing to Reconcile, Part Three: The Best Man Holiday and the Besideness of Blackness
This is the third and final part in a series of posts on refusing the logic of reconciliation. Please read the first two before commenting. In the themes it explores and relationality it depends on, the Best Man Holiday is… Continue reading
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The Movie “Django Unchained” Is Not About Slavery
No, the movie Django Unchained is not about slavery. It’s about the way we remember slavery, especially cinematically. (Needless to say, SPOILERS ABOUND!) Quentin Tarantino’s latest film obviously riffs off of the Spaghetti Western. But Django Unchained also plays with and thereby subverts another… Continue reading