I noticed in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Art and Such” references to Black Americans as a “horde” or “mass” (2, 9). However, her rhetorical use of these words is distinctly different than how I had noted these or similar terms being used before. Having examined black physicality and mass in Space Traders, I wanted to put…
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Color between Art: A Critique of Glover’s in “Juneteenth”
In the ninth episode of the first season of Atlanta (created, written, and produced by Donald Glover), titled “Juneteenth”, Earnest “Earn” Marks (Donald Glover), Vanessa Marks (Zazie Beets), and Lisa (Joan Q. Scott), a playwright, are seated together in a casual living room setting in the house of Craig (Rick Holmes) and Monique (Cassandra Freedman). …
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