Problem:
Using "Across the readings, Traveling While Black and (Re)imagining African futures: Wakanda and the politics of transnational Blackness, the main arguments presented is the understanding of Black culture, identity, and history throughout media and personal experiences. Both articles argue that the politics that surround Blackness are transnational through Africa, America, and Europe through traveling/migration and again, media. Through the readings, it has been understood that Blackness can be understood and interpreted in many ways through identities and experience, therefore it cannot have a definitive meaning towards it.
These readings don't rely on statistical or quantitative data, but instead qualitative and historical evidence to support the arguments on the understanding of Black culture and identity through transnationality. For example, in (Re)imagining African futures: Wakanda and the politics of transnational Blackness, uses the movie Black Panther, and the fact that the movie offers an Afrofuturist perspective towards blackness, free of colonialism and anti-Blackness, to argue that the movie provides some false sense of liberation, avoiding the political aspect of it all as well as the power structural change. It changed the view on Africa, which had a preconceived notion that it was a poor "country", and changed the viewpoint as a liberating, rich continent. It frames Black identity as powerful and liberating, which serves as a contrast for what was actually happening in our political climate (Asandi, Pindi, 2020). Traveling While Black, in contrast, focuses on the personal experience of John L. Jackson, Jr., and Black mobility throughout the world. The concept that as a Black person, others perspective of a Black person, no matter where they are, is jaded. A Black person will always be surveilled, profiled, etc., disrupting their freedom of movement. These readings are useful because it highlights the representations of Black people in different perspectives and in their harsh realities. It emphasizes the transnationality of Black identity through power and exclusion.
I would define transnationalism as the change of identities, cultures, and political struggles across nations. Paul Gilroy's concept of the Black Atlantic demonstrates transnationalism by tracing Black identity through histories of slavery, migration, and cultural exchange. The Black Atlantic acts as a counter-narrative by centering shared trauma, resistance, and creativity rather than nationalist or Eurocentric histories.
Black transnationalism is portrayed in South Florida through the many Caribbean and African communities, where our languages, music, politics, etc., emphasize who Black people are, with connections to Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, etc."
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