Between the world and Wakanda

Coetzee, Carli

doi:10.1080/17533171.2019.1551739

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“…For example, Black Panther rejects the white gaze; it calls the audience to see themselves in this fictional world that does not center whiteness, nor white characters (White 2018). The resistance of Black Panther is grounded in the ways Coogler uses Afrofuturistic possibilities to present and redeem Blackness beyond a colonized framework (Coetzee 2019; Faithful 2018). Coogler’s contribution to this movie includes subtle references to pro-Black politics that do not use Black bodies as merely props but instead weaves broad pro-Black ideological variances across nuanced Black characters.…”

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Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

Allen

Miles

2020

Humanity & Society

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American popular culture was established to appease a white audience and continues to operate in such a manner. This pervasive white gaze in the entertainment industry manifests in anti-Black depictions and ideologies. Black celebrities have resisted this distinct form of racial oppression by overtly affirming their Black identity in entertainment spaces. To further explore this phenomenon, the present article examines: How do Black celebrities employ unapologetic Blackness as an embodied resistance tactic to challenge racial inequality in pop cultural spaces? We analyze five cases of contemporary celebrity activism across various pop cultural platforms (YouTube, film, sport, music, and television) and find that just as race is socially constructed, varying across social locations, resistance to racial oppression also varies depending on the site in which it occurs. We further argue that Black celebrities’ embodied resistance converts pop cultural spaces into social movement scenes, thus transforming moments of entertainment into opportunities for political mobilization.

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Section: Data and Methodological Approachmentioning

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Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

Allen

Miles

2020

Humanity & Society

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“…44 In her contribution to a roundtable on Black Panther in Safundi, Carli Coetzee dubs this reaction "Wakanda fever," a term that is perhaps misplaced given her insistence that African audiences, while excited by the film's centering of black experience, "reacted in the creative (and resistant) ways theorized by scholars of African popular cultural studies," which included censuring its regurgitation of African and black stereotypes. 45 Political geographer Robert A. Saunders, too, acknowledges Black Panther's role as "a transformative artifact," especially for black audiences, when he notes that "while no such nation as Wakanda exists on the map, it has become real in the minds [of] those who sat in dimly-lit theatres around the globe, thus serving a symbol of the 'black cognitive and cultural capacities' that have been long derided by (white) Western Civilization." 46 However, in a reading of the film that strongly resonates with Cheah's skepticism about mass culture's worlding power, he sees this making real of a different world-which both White and Coetzee suggest constitutes a re-worlding-as overshadowed and essentially invalidated by its status as a product of the global culture industry.…”

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Worlding Popular Culture

Peeren¹

2022

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

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“…Black Panther brings Wakanda fever to the audience. When seeing Black Panther in theatres, moviegoers celebrated their connection to Wakanda by dressing, quoting phrases from the film and gesturing (Coetzee, 2019). Following are the research objectives: How are Black superheroes portrayed in the film Black Panther ? What represents the cultural identity of Blackness in Black Panther ? How does the film reconstruct the Black identity? …”

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Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

Jiaxi

Changsong

2022

Media Watch

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The black superhero film is an important research object for anti-racism development. Under the White supremacy framework, Black people and culture have been devalued and neglected for a long time. The all-Black lead Marvel film Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler in 2018, employs a well-defined system to present the appeals on anti-racist and reconstruct the filmic Black identity. This study explicitly analyses the approach through which the images of Black people and Black culture are represented, and it attempts to understand how this film reconstructs Black people’s sense of self-identity. This study focuses on the physical appearance of Black superheroes and material culture, the spatial narrative of Black Panther’s fictional spatial world Wakanda, and the Black spirit depicted in the film. Cultural identity, cinematic representation theory, and social identity theory are used to interpret how Black Panther reconstructs Black identity and represents Black culture. This study discovers that Black superheroes are portrayed as powerful, justice, and wise as White people, and Wakanda provides a utopia for a non-racist world. Meanwhile, Black culture is depicted elegantly and proudly to reconstruct Black people’s recognition of cultural and social identity.

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Between the world and Wakanda

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

Worlding Popular Culture

Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

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