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1	The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin— the Bursting of Black Rage Jordan, Taryn 17 December 2014 (has links) What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and white supremacist in summer of 2012. And in the Justice for Trayvon Martin March and Rally in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2013. Both cases studies prove black rage can collectivize the struggles of differing people producing a feeling of possibility during our era of impossibility. Black Rage Afro Pessimism Affect CeCe Mcdonald Trayvon Martin
2	From Afro pessimism to Africa Rising: Anglo-American & Afro Media Representations of Africa Tinga, Tracy January 2019 (has links) This dissertation interrogates the representation of Africa as rising by examining the conditions that have led to the shift from an Afro pessimistic discourse to a more propulsive one. To do so, it examines how “Africa Rising” functions as a discourse articulated through transnational news networks, global financial, development, business organizations and Afrocentric digital platforms. It analyzes the recurring tropes, symbols and language used to signify the notion of “rising”, how various social actors are involved in the articulation of this discourse, the countries on the continent labelled as “rising”, which ones are not and why? It examines the conditions that have enabled the emergence of this discourse, and how they relate to other discourses. It examines the role of Afropolitans on the continent and the diaspora in the production and dissemination of this discourse through emerging Afrocentric digital platforms. Finally, it analyzes the tensions, contradictions and absences within this discourse and its implications for African countries. To address these questions, the rising discourse is theoretically contextualized within neoliberal globalization and development discourses, South-South relations, Postcolonial, journalism, digital media, and identity frameworks, to reveal the nuanced way that it articulates various ideological assumptions and the intersectional dimensions of race, gender and class in the production of the continent. Methodologically, this project applies a multi-sited critical discourse analysis, to a variety of news media texts from Anglo-American media, Afrocentric digital platforms and institutional reports. It also examines how various institutions deploy the notion of “Africa Rising.” Finally, this study includes interviews with content producers of Afrocentric digital platforms, to understand if and how they engage and situate their work within the “Africa Rising” discourse. This dissertation reveals that the Africa Rising discourse contradicts itself as it homogenizes the continent whilst pushing a neoliberal agenda that excludes countries within the continent that fail to adopt this agenda. It also reveals the tensions of neoliberalism on the continent, as countries with various profiles and histories struggle to adopt these policies. It reveals how various global social actors continue to influence affairs within the continent. Finally, it reveals the role that Afrocentric digital platforms are influencing perceptions about the African continent and how these platforms are intertwined with the neoliberal agenda. / Media & Communication Communication Africa Rising Afro Pessimism Globalization Neoliberalism South-south Relations
3	Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa Ndaba, Mpho Antoon 04 April 2023 (has links) (PDF) Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism. Antiblackness dogs White supremacy Afro-Pessimism Anthropocene violence apartheid post-apartheid South Africa
4	The Realness or, Liquid smoke or, This is what the f••k boutta happen Burgel, Octavia M. 19 December 2019 (has links) No description available. Black History Black Studies Fine Arts Art Critical Race Theory Sculpture Basketball Plaster Material Afro-Pessimism Studio Practice Blackness Race Pompeii Internment Social Death
5	Fourth World Nation: A Critical Geography of Decline Olon Frederick Dotson (6876251) 16 October 2019 (has links) Dissertation declaring that The United States of America is a Fourth World Nation. It has earned this distinction as direct a result of the manner in which it was established, how it developed, and the fact that it has demonstratively failed to confront its ever-increasing disparity and unevenness. Fourth World Theory provides a foundation and framework for a critical investigation of society and culture though an analytical lens, and an examination of the inequities that are increasingly prevalent throughout a post-industrial, post-agrarian, post-developing space of inevitable decline. Geography Sociology Urban and Regional Economics Regional Analysis and Development Urban Analysis and Development American Studies' African American Studies Urban Studies Critical Geography sociology Afro-pessimism Abandonment Fourth World Sublime Madness Resistance History American History
6	There Will Be No Pictures of Pigs Shooting Down Brothers in the Instant Replay: Surveillance and Death in the Black Arts Movement Jackson, Indya J. 06 November 2020 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans Black Studies Literature Music Philosophy Theater Black Power African-American African-American Literature Literature Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones Malcolm X Gil Scott-Heron Black Arts Movement Afro-Pessimism Frank Wilderson Social Death Surveillance Anti-Blackness James Baldwin
7	Black Deathing to Black Self-Determination: The Cultivating Substance of Counter-Narratives Ross, Genesis 12 April 2021 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics African Americans African American Studies Black History Black Studies Curricula Education Educational Leadership Ethics Families and Family Life Individual and Family Studies Pedagogy Performing Arts Philosophy Public Health Education Rhetoric Social Research Sociology Social Work Teaching Systematic Urban Planning Womens Studies Afro-Futurism Afro-Surreal Futurism Afro-Surrealism Afro-Pessimism Black Self-Determination Black Speculative Capitalism Colonialism Counter-Narratives Deathing Dehumanization Substance and Function Whiteness White Supremacy

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