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White Adultocene. Rethinking modernity through figures of the Child in the history of racial oppression [PDF]
This paper explores how the figure of the Child has been used to uphold colonial anti-Black racial oppression. By examining adultism—the subordination of Children within the Child-adult binary—I trace its roots to Western philosophical ideas about nature.
Claudia Mock, Claudia Mock
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The study explores the notion of ‘Modernity’ in the two texts Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) and Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing (2007), written by British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
Huma Saeed
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Israel and the Crisis of Radical Blackness
This article examines the reach of Black Internationalism, a dialogue on race, politics, and modernity nurtured by Black nationalists in the United States, between 1971 and 1974.
Christopher T. Fisher
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Wakanda casts a spell without farofa
Based on an analysis of the African diaspora representations in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018), this article argues how the complexities of diasporic blackness and the multiplicities of life experiences in the African Continent were historically ...
Bernardo Oliveira
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TOWARDS OTHER NARRATIVES: EDUCATION AND DERACIALIZATION OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL [PDF]
In this paper, we discuss the historical process involved in the construction of the Brazilian national identity, based on the racialization of the black experience, an element still present in the Brazilian identity formation process.
Priscila Martins Medeiros +1 more
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Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos ou la subversion de la modernité consentie
This article aims to present and discuss how critics, curators, and artists built an enduring narrative about the life and work of Bahian sculptor Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos (1926-1962). This narrative served to limit our understanding of the artist to an
Juliana Ribeiro da Silva Bevilacqua
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The Idea of colonial Industry in Jean Godefroy Bidima and the Critique of Fabien Eboussi Boulaga
In this paper, I argue that the concept of culture industry developed by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno had a decisive influence on Jean Godefroy Bidima’s critique of black African modernity.
Adoulou N. Bitang
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Modernity in Black and White [PDF]
Modernity in Black and White provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil. Departing from previous accounts, mostly restricted to the elite arenas of literature, fine art and architecture, the book situates cultural debates within the wider currents of Brazilian life. From the rise of the first favelas, in the 1890s and 1900s,
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In this article, we take the risk of reading the contemporary world based on images that have been published on social media during the pandemic crisis.
Souzana Mizan, Daniel de Mello Ferraz
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Malignant melanoma: modern black plague and genetic black box [PDF]
References to ‘black cancer’ and ‘fatal black tumors with metastasis’ date to the writings of the legendary Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C. However, it was not until the time of Napolean’s Prussian Campaign in 1806 that Rene Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope, provided the first description of melanoma as a disease entity in his
L, Chin, G, Merlino, R A, DePinho
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