The physical and visual encounter with Haiti awakened African American artists from the “dream” of racial solidarity and radically transformed the presentation of Haiti in their work. Among artists who traveled to Haiti, such as William Edouard Scott, Aaron Douglas, and James Porter, the Pan‐Africanist notion of diasporic connections and revolutionary inheritance was harder to sustain. Their work was central in forging diasporic links between African American and Haitian contemporaries and inspiring black populations throughout the diaspora to imagine freedom, to dream, through Haiti. At this time many African American artists working in the United States represented the first black Republic through symbols of the Haitian revolution and its leaders. Haiti was on mind and in the imagination of many African American artists throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a period that coincided with the U.S.
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Reading up about what inspired James Franco to make this movie, I found it interesting to see that he came across Greg Sestero’s book before even seeing and becoming a fan of “The Room. I also got a big kick out of Zac Efron and Josh Hutcherson just for being perfectly cast in their respective roles. Seth Rogen was great as a character that acted as the audience, calling out the absurd nature of Wiseau. James Franco especially impresses by capturing the mannerisms and emotions of Wiseau. James and Dave Franco are fantastic in their respective roles and really sold how these two people become friends. While “The Disaster Artist” is very much a comedy, I left with a lot more respect for Wiseau’s film than when I walked in with. It would have been so easy for Franco and friends to make a straight-up comedy about how bad “The Room” is. The best aspect of “The Disaster Artist” is how much it pays tribute to “The Room” rather than mocking it. 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Note-we know that THIS world is eventually beyond saving our sun is a star with an expiration date, however remote, and we can only hope that aliens or AI or, heck, future humans, will figure out a way to preserve human life, or at least the consciousness of it. The sadism, the misogyny, the wobbly structure, the technical flaws-I have to admit I'd have looked past all of them (though not forgotten them), if only Severian (Wolfe) actually saved (t)his world in the end. self-aggrandizing fascistoid reactionary crapola. I'm entering a busier period and don't know if I'll have time (or the will, frankly) to discuss the book(s) in detail, so just my overall impression (finished yesterday). race (racism) and class.Įntwining his own life and personal stories with facts and figures for the naysayers, Akala explores the construct of race, and what it means to be racialised (as he phrases it) as white/black in Britain.ĭivided into 11 chapters, Akala exudes raw honesty as he breaks downs the moment he realised he was black (though mixed race) and his mother white, the reasons why white people (now) love Mandela, the typically English way Great Britannia views its empire as well as state education and the way it stifles black children. Simply put, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire is a critical analysis of the fragile world structures and foundations that Britain or more broadly the West / global North have built their riches upon…. Thought provoking and insightful are just some of the adjectives that best describe this book. Read on to find out why she loved this book so much. “The book that got me back into non-fiction again”, our Literary Editor, Vanessa Thomas said she read Akala’s Sunday Times bestseller, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire like she was 15 years old again. |
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