#global blackness

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It's very nice to hear a non American talk about american blackness in a positive manner.

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The Lives We Live, The Impacts We Have 

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Welcome to Wakanda: ‘Black Panther’ is a love letter between the African Diaspora and the continent

Welcome to Wakanda: ‘Black Panther’ is a love letter between the African Diaspora and the continent

I’m wondering what words there are in existence that could be used to accurately describe Black Panther. Stunning, breathtaking, and majestic come close. This film stands firmly in a class all its own. It is not perfect (and I have many feelings about it, but you won’t find any spoilers here), but it is still magnificent, and Black as hell. (more…)

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Why I No Longer Nod: Dispatches from an African-American Expat

London-based American writer Deeda Mitchell examines unmet expectations of cultural blackness while living abroad.

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The Rise of the Afro-descendent Identity in Latin America

For Black History Month, Catherine Walsh, professor of Afro-Andean Studies at the University Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, shares with teleSUR her views about the achievements and challenges for the construction of an Afro-descendent consciousness in Latin America.

It's important to recognize the ways that Black history continues to be constructed, the ways that in Latin America official history has always negated in every single country Blackness and the ways Black intellectuals and communities have begun to re-write the official history, rethink memory on their own terms: that's part of a Black consciousness in the continent that continues to grow — in countries where the Black population is small like Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, but also in Brazil where its major or Colombia, continues to grow strong. The remembering —i.e. bringing together this history that has been dismembered— is extremely important today in maintaining and reconstructing identities and thinking about the ways education, a more inclusive idea of a nation.

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Let's talk about phenotype and global Blackness

Let’s talk about phenotype and global Blackness

 by Siete Saudades Phenotype: the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment. (How we look) Genotype: Genetic makeup of an organism. Race: a system of identity and power structures that categorise human beings based on ancestry and phenotype. (more…)

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