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Blog Post 1

Reflecting back on the course lectures from the start of this course up until now, I can confidently say that every lecture was fascinating and extremely informative in its own way. In the first lecture, the main topic discussed by Professor Due was an introduction to Afrofuturism. Coming from a background of little to no knowledge in regards to this course, I was introduced to many many different sects of Afrofuturism. I for sure thought Afrofuturism in music was something I related to the most. I was involved with music mixing and producing from a young age and to see celebrities take music and incorporate history that explores the intersection of African American diaspora culture in it was awesome to see. Going into this course a bit more takes us into the movie, ‘Black Panther’. It is unfortunate that we had to make this a real thing but a sense of self-liberation is necessary. Showing that form of Black Pride is something we need in the world of afrofuturism. We’ve also discussed the importance of Janelle Monae and Lil Nas X’s music videos. I wanted to share what I noticed with the majority of the music videos we are viewing in this course. The music videos show a much more exaggerated form of afrofuturism than the actual vocals. A word I can use to explain some of the music videos was just ‘Strong’. I believe this occurs due to making the idea come to life harder and just to hit harder. They just make it in a way to not want to remove your eyes from the video. Going into the following week of this course, we tried to deeply analyze the movie, ‘Space Traders’ in our discussion section. In that movie, categorized within afrofuturism, I noticed how the Golightly tried to manipulate the psychology of the White people which was really interesting to me. The act of Black people getting smuggled by the Jews was another concept in the movie that I was just continuously thinking about even after class was over. The help they offered to each other was impressive to me. Thinking even deeper, we can throw it back to an even older date where Jewish & Black people were of positive service to each other. In this class, the way I’ve learned why people behave a certain way with one another. In ‘Space Traders’ was there an actual reason that the Jews were trying to help the Black people at any moment in time? Beyonce’s Grammy work was also really impressive as I was never aware of the afrofuturism in her professional career. We have had some seriously great work and discussions brought upon us in this course collectively as a lecture group and discussion groups. To think a bit differently, I am not too sure if it will make the most sense, but I had an idea that came to me within the last week. It might be hard but not impossible to incorporate non-Blacks into the Afrofuturims world creating a more diverse and unique movement. In the past few weeks, the work that was presented to us in this course was strictly involving African American people, celebrities, etc. Can this be possible if we switch it up in some sort? Can Black people portray it the best? As a literary genre, can it and should be only portrayed by people that are actively involved with it. Maybe my suggestion/thought just doesn’t make any sense. I’d love to potentially discuss this further with another student and understand another person’s active view on this idea.

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