Drawing on Professor Curseen’s theory from last class — that blackness gets defined differently in The Color Purple — I wanted to investigate how blackness represents itself between Sofia and Celie. The dialog between Sofia and Celie, as well as their interactions with Miss Millie’s family, identify blackness as something other than the conflict of…
Black artists and intellectuals continue to grapple with Enlightenment style elitism by adopting and inserting themselves within the tropes of the mainstream, thereby subverting and stretching definitions of existence. Glover’s Danny is a quintessential hipster character of this millennial era: a la Hannah in Girls or Vincent Chase in Entourage. Each episode of Atlanta, much…
Gilroy mentions Marshall Berman’s return to the South Bronx and sees how “the breakdancers and graffitists that he observes moving across the shadows of that desolate urban landscape are not so easily to be claimed for the overarching modernism he seeks to affirm” (Gilroy 47). There is much difficulty to locate where we see modernism…
A critical point raised in chapter two of Gilroy revolves around the centrality of capitalism to pre-modern as well as modern society. Gilroy expresses that while the evil of slavery is simple to identify as exploitation of human rights and freedom, perhaps the true and most evil culprit is the driving force behind slavery; capitalism.…
One of the claims Paul Gilroy argues in chapter two of “The Black Atlantic,” is that much of Western modernization and history leaves out the origin and idea of race. Rather, the “innocent modernity” that many theorists and post-enlightenment thinkers critique from, is the emergence from the “happy social relations that graced post-Enlightenment life in…
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