Posted on 02/20/2018 12:02:06 PM PST by C19fan
The long-awaited “Black Panther” will dominate the pop culture scene over the next few weeks, and amid praise for the cast and Ryan Coogler’s astute direction, you’re likely to hear one word quite often: Afrofuturism.
The term, coined by cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future,” refers to an aesthetic that infuses science fiction and fantasy with cultures of the African diaspora. It shakes up our preconceived notions of history and race by envisioning an often utopic future shaped by black technological innovation. Elements of it predate the term, going as far back as the 1950s, appearing everywhere from visual art to novels to comic books to music by the likes of George Clinton and the jazz musician Sun Ra.
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You kinda need lots of blacks to get an education for that to happen, instead of lots of blacks calling other blacks 'oreos' for trying to get educated. But yeah, sure, it's whites holding blacks back.
“It shakes up our preconceived notions of history and race by envisioning an often utopic future shaped by black technological innovation.”
Yes, indeed, just as in Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore today! Black Einsteins abounding!
“White people didn’t screw up Africa.”
They didn’t help that much, to tell you the truth.
If it motivates black people to value education more, then it's a good thing.
But I suspect the real motivation is more 'hate whitey' than that.
“Of all the let us say futurist or [blank]punk vision this has to be the most inconceivable. Rather live in Victorian Steampunk than some Afro ****hole future. “
They’re all stupid.
Wow. The rewrite of history. Paging George Orwell.
It’s a movie based on a comic book character and a storyline that was developed in the 1970’s. It’s part of a larger story of superheroes who are all fictional. Us nerds who read those comic books when they were new appreciate that the story is a big screen sensation 40 years later. If they want to spruce up the story to make it more relevant to contemporary times then I see no problem. Most of the people who are critical of the movie never ever read the comic books. Give thanks to God that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had such wild imaginations. Try to enjoy it for what it is.
Reverse racism, coming to a neighborhood near you......
You are so right. The rest of the world has FINALLY begun to catch on to the genius of Stan Lee.
I am still astonished where that guy’s mind was going back in the ‘60s with respect to mythology, science, geopolitics and society—all of which somehow made sense to kids!
Does your screen name refer to the web slinger?
Google REALLY needs to lose its white users. Now.
I guess Heinlein’s Fahrnam’s Freehold would not be well received by the African Futurist dociety.
I think they would embrace it. After all, it posits a future in which blacks are decadent but dominant and keep whites as slaves.
Yeah, but Fahrnam gets back and presents the possiblility of changing the future. So maybe if they change that ending I agree it would be embraced.
No, on their jump back they landed in an alternate reality. If you’ll recollect, Barbara’s car, when they left their beginning reality, before the bomb hurled them forward into time, had an automatic transmission. The car they returned to was a stick shift.
The media is overplaying their left hand on this movie. I feel sorry for them, really.
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