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.…
In Chapter 5 of The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois refers to the Greek myth of Hippomenes as a means to warn new educations systems of the south about the temptation to place material prosperity above cultural prosperity. This warning is relevant to Atlanta Season 1 in which many characters pursue material wealth. How…
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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In class last week, we briefly pondered about what the “This” refers to in the titular lyrics “This is America.” One idea was that we might read (Donald Glover as) Childish Gambino as an embodiment of America. The idea interestingly asks us to consider the nature of something like an American body. More pointedly it…
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