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(Theory & history of) Black Panther Party

A Panther’s Legacy: How the Panther’s visual rhetoric remains part of our pop.cultural imagination

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Found in Kortrijk, Belgium on August 14, 2021

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Postracialism

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

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Race-ism

Spike Lee: ‘Post-Racial America is Bullshit’

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The only time it was really caught was Rodney King […] everybody is an investigative reporter now… with a phone.

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1001 streams of whiteness

Spike Lee on Gentrification of BedStuy

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My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic!
—Spike Lee

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