Description This podcast is mainly organized by four acts. One of the main points of this podcast is about Afrofuturism. First act focus on what Afrofuturism is, and what kind of an Afrofuturist campaign is there. Two and four acts are mainly about experiences that black people experienced. Act three showed one song, which is based on underwater mythodology of the 9-s Detroit electro band Drexciya. In act one, Ira and Neil visited Philadelphia to understand Afrofuturism. According to the podcast, Afrofuturism is the way of talking about black people. It shows that how black people live, what their survival skills are. It also challenges stereotypes and negative images of black people. Neil visited Detroit to see some Afrofuturist campaigns. Neil met one afrofuturist, who is …show more content…
His enthusiasm about Afrofuturism was really high, so it was little bit difficult for him to follow his enthusiasm. Neil also met Sam and Rick. They took him a bar Floods. This place was more than 100% for black people, so he was surprised. In act two, He met Azie Dungey who are treated as a slaver and focused on her experiences. People criticized her many times when she was outside. For example, they did not trust that vegetables that are made by her are real. Also, one tall white guy asked her to show where she is branded although she is not. In act three, it showed one song sung by clppng. This song is a sci-fi story about pregnant African women on slave ships. In act four, Neil shared two videos. One is about fighting between two boys, and Miller tried to stop it. He said the beauty of this video is that his acting demonstrated they are not alone. Another video is about cops with black teenagers playing snowball fight. The cop decided they are doing something bad and started threating them. Whereas Miller tried to treat teenagers equally, the cop seemed to bully and
“ Some of these early productions have racial themes which reorganize the world in such a way that black heritage is rewarded over white paternity; they are schematic renunciations of the prevailing order of things in white American society where, historically, the discovery of black blood meant sudden reversal of fortune, social exclusion, or banishment.” (Gaines, P.3) Within the movie the amount of mistruths about African Americans was sad. Within the movie you notice that the blacks were always or seem to be yelling, acting uncivilized and doing
The podcast Serial, hosted by Sarah Koenig and co founded by Julie Snyder, deals with a murder case that occurred in the year 1999. This murder case deals with two former students (Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee) that attended Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Hae went missing on January 13, 1999 but was found dead in Leakin Park on February 9. The jury that took up the trial were convinced to believe that the murder must to have been committed by Adnan Syed, “who killed 18 year old student Hae Min Lee.” Syed was arrested on February 28 and charged with first degree murder. Although he pleaded guilty after the judge declared a mistrial, he was found guilty of murdering Hae Min Lee and sentenced for life in prison. However, the lack of
John Howard Griffin, the author and main character of “Black Like Me”, is a middle-aged white man who is living in Mansfield, Texas in 1959. Deeply devoted to the finding justice for racism and frustrated by his inability as a white man to understand the black experience, Griffin decides to take stand: he decides to change the color of his skin and temporarily become a black man. After securing the support of his wife and of George Levitan, the editor of a black-oriented magazine called Sepia which will fund Griffin 's experience in return for an article about it, Griffin sets out for New Orleans to begin his life as a black man. He finds a contact in the black community, a soft-spoken, articulate shoe-shiner named Sterling Williams, Eventually, Griffin looks in the mirror and sees a black man looking back. He briefly panics, feeling that he has lost his identity, and then he sets out to explore the black community.
We don’t see much of Jay, rather, we hear quite a lot. What we are hearing from Jay
Have you ever wondered how far back in our history the world has been full of hate, prejudice, and rage? It has been seen in the form of war, mass genocide, enslavement, and even something minimal compared to the others, like riots and looting for centuries. Despite this common knowledge, there are many forms of violence, injustice, and rage that go unseen. Carol Anderson’s, White Rage, dives deep into the idea that maybe the worst forms of rage do not come from the most obvious and attention-capturing events, but the ones who stay hidden and subside deep in their privileged and ‘noble’ positions. She wants to show you, through the eyes of a minority, what it is like to constantly be looked past and looked down upon. Anderson argues the fact that no matter how many laws and regulations are put into place to cease the existence of racism, the rage in America continues to thwart African American advancement. Through precisely compelling choice of words and a structural design that pulls everything apart only to piece it back together to form a much larger picture, Anderson brings rage, the white rage, into a new and different light. This shows readers the depth of the racial problems in our country through a recap of groundbreaking historical events, advancing or obstructing African Americans, along with the white backlash.
The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.
The widely popular podcast, Stuff You Should Know, often abbreviated as SYSK, is a free, award winning podcast and video series published by the How Stuff Works website. The podcast has been a hit ever since its release and has been constantly ranking amongst the top of all podcast rankings. The premise of the podcast is essentially to inform the listeners about the further nuanced details about activities many people engage in on a daily basis. The podcast airs every Tuesday and Thursday, educating their listeners on a wide variety of topics with comedic value that helps to engage and enhance the audience 's experience while listening to the podcast. In terms of its history, the podcast was launched on April 17th, 2009, and since its
Science fiction can be defined as stories of different possible futures in where technology, space travel and futuristic elements all play a large role. These stories are found to be captivating, but most of all eye opening on the possibilities for our future. Afrofuturism uses these elements to make more than a story. Afrofuturistic writers, all being black, write these stories from experience which make their underlying reason more powerful and real. Afrofuturistic works fall well beyond the category of Science fiction because they have a purpose in exposing the black “communities past [that] has been deliberately rubbed out” (Dery 180). These works do more than merely entertain, but rather, create sci-fi parallels for a communities lasting trauma while further depicting the
My thoughts after listening to The American Life podcast was, as bad as it sounds I didn’t even really know that there were still all black and all white schools. I didn’t know that kids were still separated in that way. I think it’s sad that still after so many years people can’t all come together as one, they have to separate themselves based on skin color. Which is just wrong. The part where they talked about students that we behind. They were correct. If you’re someone who is already way behind where you should be and you are then given bad resources and unskilled teachers you are either going to stay where you are, or get worse. If you are on a classroom with a bunch of kids who are advanced, you are more likely to catch up. The kids that
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Donald Glover along with the other writers and producers of Atlanta proves the views with an authentic look into the daily challenges of being black in this country. The show creates a dialogue that examines the intersection of topics such as police brutality, mental health, and transphobic in relation to the systemic racism and violence experienced by black America. This review will examine the representation of blackness on Atlanta, and how the representations of African Americans continue
The director uses location to make a gap between black and white by putting them in different areas. It seems that the one belongs to black society, while the richer area is white’s. In this movie, black people are pictured to look like criminals, and their lives are messed up and they live in poverty.
Introduction to African American Studies was the class that I decided to take this summer because I am genuinely interested in learning more about the cultures and lifestyles of African Americans through out history and I want to further my knowledge beyond just learning about what was taught to me in secondary school. I do not know much about African American studies as I have not taken any courses on it or relating to it in the past but I hope that I can gain a lot of information on the topic through out this intellectual experience. I also hope to gain a better understanding of the history of Africans and African Americas and be able to dive deeper into this topic instead of just hitting the surface as I feel as though my previous experiences with this topic have covered. In just this first weeks lesson I have learned about the three great principles that characterize the “Black Intellectual Tradition” and how these three principles are used and perceived.
The Serial podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig, is about the murder of young Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee. Hae was a smart, ambitious, and outgoing young lady taken from this world too soon. Sarah Koenig and the podcast takes us through the ins and outs of typical and unusual teenager behavior to try and uncover something unseen in this case. Adnan Syed, the now convicted murder, and Jay Wilds, the state’s only witness, are the key people of this story. I believe Adnan’s innocence should be maintained because Jay’s story should not have been used for evidence, there was not enough evidence to even arrest Adnan, and Adnan had a trustworthy alibi.
She explains how people think she isn’t from their country because she looks different then everyone else. “When I wear a tablecloth to go to town, when they suspect I’m black” she feels that people just jump to conclusions