6 Artists On Black Identity
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- “Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture.
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African culture, which is heavily influenced by Western ideals: “You’re internalizing society’s message to you that your hair, the way it is, something is wrong with it.”
Artist Wangechi Mutu (b.1972) argues that growing up in Nairobi in Kenya in the 70’s and 80’s, there was virtually no representation of urban middle-class African kids in the films available to them.
”You literally erase the memory of who they are,” says Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938) about how colonizers tampered with the memories of the natives and instead planted their own memories.
To American artist Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), showing the diversity of races in museums is essential to how we perceive the world: “We live in a material world, in which the things we see shape our expectations.”
“Africa is a European concept,” states Congolese artist and photographer Sammy Baloji (b. 1978).
Author Taiye Selasi (b. 1979) - who is born to a Nigerian mother and a Ghanaian father and raised in Boston, U.S. - talks about creating an alternative to having your identity labeled: the global, multi-local ‘Afropolitan.’
Interviews by Synne Rifbjerg, Kim Skotte, Mathias Ussing Seeberg and Kasper Bech Dyg. The interviews can be watched in full length at channel.louisia...
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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We reflect on the shaping of Black identity in "Confessions of An Uncle Tom" by M. James & D. Brown
It's tough being African in this world
It wouldn't be if you could actually achieve something.
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Can someone please explain to me what your identity has to do with the color of your skin. Because your character and your personality is what makes you who you are. Your actions and your choices define who you are. Not the color of your skin. I thought only racist white people thought that the color of your skin made you who you are. So is there a missing agenda that i'm not understanding or that i'm not getting. Because the color of your skin and your sexuality has nothing to do with who you are. And it's racist to think that it does.That was started by racist white people four hundred years ago in the days of slavery. So somebody please explain to me why i'm not understanding. I'm confused why a person of color or a black person would think that their skin color makes them who they are.
One thing that I know might be so close to black identity is overreacting to threats and then plastering yourselves over all media!