Visual Identity Politics and Remix Society
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Encyclopedia of —isms

Discourse (or discursive)

Slide from lecture "Visual culture, Identity and Design" by Nana Adusei-Poku on March 19, 2015

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Postracialism

“Anyone who thinks we move in a post-racial society is someone who’s been smoking crack” – Spike Lee, 2009

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1001 streams of blackness

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Encyclopedia of —isms

Black vs black

“I write “Black” with a capital B because this term addresses first and foremost political and historical dimensions of the concept of Blackness, and relates only indirectly to skin complexion.”
— Adusei-Poku

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Post-black

“When it comes to defending Barack against the charge that he’s not Black enough, I tell folk, ‘Well, I’ve know him for over fifteen years, and what I’ve noticed is that he’s proud of his race, but that doesn’t capture the range of his identity. He’s rooted in, but not restricted by his Blackness'”
— Michael Eric Dyson in the forword of “Who’s afraid of Post-Blackness” by Touré.

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