The series Akosua Adoma Owusu: The Hair Trilogy is showing on Mubi starting February 24, 2022.White Afro“What are you?”It’s the question I’m most frequently asked. I wish it were in the sense of my life philosophy or allegiances, but it’s because my appearance is just “ethnic” enough to confound whatever categories people have floating around in their heads. If I suggest that the answer is neither important, nor their business, nor polite to push for, the querent gets indignant or guileless. Often they offer their own heritage as proof demanding someone define their genetic makeup/identity (two different categories frequently conflated) isn’t rude. Though rarely meant with malice, repeatedly being asked what you are defines what you are clearly not: the default. At best it’s exoticism, but mostly it’s exhausting.In his 1903 book The Soul of Black People, W.E.B. DuBois coined and defined “double consciousness,...
- 2/24/2022
- MUBI
Short notice, but I only just heard about it last night, at the screening of Bilal’s Stand that I attended (review is coming)…
This is an all-day event taking place at Nyu’s Cantor Film Center on 36 East 8th Street; I’ll be heading out there shortly – don’t want to miss Armond White dish on “black representation in cinema” on a panel that begins at 10Am.
Here are the specifics for each segment of the conference. It’s all Free and Open To The Public! So, if you can attend even one of them, why not do so. I’ll check out at least one of them… possibly more, I’m engaged by what I hear after the first one.
First, from 10-11:15 am – a panel on Representation
Moderator: Jacquie Jones
Panelists: Todd Boyd, Armond White, Toni Francis, Zola Maseko
Second, from 11:30-12:45 pm – a...
This is an all-day event taking place at Nyu’s Cantor Film Center on 36 East 8th Street; I’ll be heading out there shortly – don’t want to miss Armond White dish on “black representation in cinema” on a panel that begins at 10Am.
Here are the specifics for each segment of the conference. It’s all Free and Open To The Public! So, if you can attend even one of them, why not do so. I’ll check out at least one of them… possibly more, I’m engaged by what I hear after the first one.
First, from 10-11:15 am – a panel on Representation
Moderator: Jacquie Jones
Panelists: Todd Boyd, Armond White, Toni Francis, Zola Maseko
Second, from 11:30-12:45 pm – a...
- 3/28/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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