Black British Final

Promiscuous intertextuality

Used by Kobena Mercer to describe the queering of citation and remixing practices in Looking for Langston

Disidentification

An acting both against and within existing discourse to navigate identity, as theorized by Jose Esteban Munoz

Social problem film

A genre of film that addresses social issues such as poverty, racism, and inequality, often aiming to promote social change. Examples include Sapphire and Flame on the Streets.

Miscegenation

According to Maggie Andrews, specific anxiety key in interweaving histories of gender and race in 20th-century Britain

The Black Ecstatic

An aesthetic mode of embrace and pleasurable reckoning with everyday ruin in black lives under perpetual chaos

abstractionism

Aesthetic modes of signification that are simultaneously nonrealist and nonfigurative

Representation

Stuart Hall identifies this as the ‘first moment’ of black cultural politics as a struggle of the relations of ___

Difference (or diversity)

The shift from 'relations of representation' to a 'politics of representation' focuses on the recognition of _____ within the category 'black'

Constructed

Stuart Hall's concept of the 'end of the essential black subject' refers to the recognition that 'black' is a politically and culturally _____ category

ethnicity

Refers to the historical, cultural, and political construction of subjectivity and identity, rather than a biological guarantee

Selective tradition (according to Williams and Hall)

Record of a period that is filtered to support the governing assumptions of the present

The Heritage

Defined by Hall as a discursive practice used by nations to selectively construct a social memory

political blackness

In 70s Britain, was often used as a unifying weapon to bridge ethnic difference through the common experience of racism

Afrofuturism

Describes the intersection of black culture, technology, and science fiction as explored by practicioners like Sun Ra and George Clinton

‘black neoliberal aesthetic’ according to Clive James Nwonka

Commodification of black images and narratives for social engagement and public voyeurism

Multiaccentuality

The internal dialectical quality of a sign that allows it to possess multiple meanings, especially during social crisis

‘subversive force’ of creolization (or hybridity)

A dynamic that appropriates and rearticulates elements of the dominant culture

transnational post-colonialism

A shared historical experience of decolonization spanning different ethnic groups; Okwui Enwezor

epidermal schema, Frantz Fanon

The racial categorization of individuals based on physical appearance and perceived modern/primitive binary

Strategic Essentialism

The temporary use of essentialist categories as a necessary moment for political intervention and struggle

sonic fiction

fictions produced from sound that foreground their own fictionality; Kodwo Eshun

imagined community; Benedict Anderson

A nation whose members share an idea of belonging and national purpose despite being strangers to one another

post-nation

A re-imagined state that includes those previously marginalized by the nation story; Stuart Hall

outfulness

the practice of stepping outside of progressive (or linear) time

Social Ecstasy

The state of being ‘beside oneself together with others’ through ritual black communion and exultation

The British Nationality Act of 1948

Granted British citizen ship to all members of the Commonwealth

global postmodern

characterized by the decentering of the Western narrative and an opening to difference

Diaspora Aesthetic

Centered on hybridity and the synchronization of cultural traditions across boundaries