AAS 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Langston Hughes, Tiger Woods
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Author talks about hatred of black women but also talks about his own hatred of black women. Racial mountain that black folks have to deal with today. Everybody expects more from black pop culture celebrities and artists. Hella black and hella successful at the same time. > hella black but at the same time not too black that it creates a barrier and doesn"t allow them to control you. Race encompasses the way artists think and feel. Getting artists to get past biases from both black and white people. Ocular centric culture in the west, we think that someone is black by the way they look, act, their hair type. Essentialism reinforces racial strategies it"s trying to break down. >would allow people to determine good black vs bad black, real blakc vs fake black. Discourse defined by relationship of discourse without other cultures. Steward hall what is the black in black pop culture .
