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A Meditation On Afrosurrealism, Black Gender, And The Non-Human, Logan K. Shanks
A Meditation On Afrosurrealism, Black Gender, And The Non-Human, Logan K. Shanks
Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal
Quotidian Black life is characterized by our ability to alchemize violence into generative life-sustaining properties of matter. In this paper, I will measure Black matter based on anything produced and engaged by Black collectives. While Black existence is not tied to white violence, descendants of enslaved Black people enter our worlds of worlds greeted by a white captor. It is not until we consciously recognize that we are in his dream that we can work to escape the white captor’s circadian rhythms. Through this paper, I will tease out the contradictions of our Black living-unliving. I will employ an anti-methodological …
A Hip Hop Episteme: Understanding Hip Hop Culture’S Ways Of Knowing And Expressing Knowledge Through Time Travel And Traditional African And Afro-Diasporic Spirituality, Brandon N. Ekweonu , '20
A Hip Hop Episteme: Understanding Hip Hop Culture’S Ways Of Knowing And Expressing Knowledge Through Time Travel And Traditional African And Afro-Diasporic Spirituality, Brandon N. Ekweonu , '20
Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards
Perhaps one of my earliest and most interesting Hip Hop experiences occurred early on in my childhood. I remember being in my mother’s bedroom, and I think the lights were off. And I was using my mother’s Sharp CD-C600 Mini Component System with the 3-CD Drawer Changer to play a CD copy of 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album that she had purchased for me. I remember being really excited to be playing my favorite song on the album, “In Da Club” (I used to pretend it was my birthday and that 50 Cent was rapping for me, …