Assignment task:
Performance Expression Representation Assimilation Appropriation is important concepts in thinking about Black identity and culture empowerment. Through the works of Black thinkers, scholars, and artists from LeRoi Jones, Hazel Carby, Greg Tate and Gabrielle Civil Black culture encompasses freedom, opposition, liberation, oppression, exploitation, and violence.
Question is if Black culture is most defined (shaped or influenced) by freedom, opposition and liberation or oppression, exploitation and violence. bring evidence from Le Roi Jones, Blues People, (Morrow, 1963) p. 1-57, Ida B. Wells, "Lynching, Our National Crime, 1909, Greg Tate, "Introduction - Nigs R US, Or How Black People Became Fetish Objects" in Everything But the Burden (Broadway Books, 2003),Hazel Carby, "It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime" in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Women's History (New York: Routledge, 1990)