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The Collective is perhaps best known for developing the Combahee River Collective Statement, [7] [8] a key document in the history of contemporary Black feminism and the development of the concepts of identity politics as used among political organizers and social theorists, [9] [10] and for introducing the concept of interlocking systems of ...
African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the set of English sociolects spoken by most Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [1] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. [2]
It concludes with Minogue in a cinema, watching a black-and-white shot of herself. [29] The music video premiered on Minogue's YouTube channel on 28 September. [ 29 ] Kheraj of Attitude felt the video "captures the high energy spirit of the song," while Alan Pedder of The Needle Drop described it as "dazzling".
The formation of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, like that of the Black Audio Film Collective, was a response to the social unrest in Britain in the 1980s: "Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, both groups centered around investigations of black identity/culture within the British experience and reworked the ...
DeForrest Brown Jr. DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a writer, music and media theorist, and curator. [ 1] Brown releases music under his own name as well as by the moniker Speaker Music. [ 2] Brown is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. His written work traverses "the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor ...
English. Handsworth Songs is a 1986 British documentary film directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. It was filmed during the 1985 riots in Handsworth and London. The production company was the Black Audio Film Collective, [1] who also wrote the screenplay. With cinematography by Sebastian Shah and music by Trevor Mathison, there ...
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) may be considered a dialect, ethnolect or sociolect. [ 22 ] While it is clear that there is a strong historical relationship between AAVE and earlier Southern U.S. dialects, the origins of AAVE are still a matter of debate. The presiding theory among linguists is that AAVE has always been a dialect of ...
Books in Black poster by R Gregory Christie, circa 2007, was used to promote the artists' book making collective. Books in Black is a collective of individual African Americans and others from the African diaspora who are “ordinary people who make extraordinary books.” [ 17 ] The group informally came together in late 2002 to crafts books ...