The Black Power and Black Arts Movement: An Inseparable Connection

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Uploaded by on Dec 4, 2008

This project interrogates the interrelationships between the functional and ideological similarities between the Black Art aesthetic and the Conceptualization of Black Power doing the 70's. More than a mere production of visual symbology or pictorial aside, this movie illustrates the necessity of art in reconfiguring and re-representing the concepts of self determination necessary for realizing BLACK POWER. Thusly, it is my contention that the BLACK art and Black power are not separated but rater inseparably connected.

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  • This was an ambitious attempt, however there are numerous flaws. - James Phillips, Africobra member

  • @SavannahApril Thanks for the constructive criticism- Im by no means an artist much more of a cultural theorist. This project however, as part of a class assigment. help me understand the importance of art as a revolutionary discourse and political strategy! Thanks again and your efforts are greatly appreciated!

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  • Praise your history black people.

  • Thank you for this video. I am putting on a Black History program the chronicles the evolution of Black Arts and Entertainment in America and I needed a video that talks about the symbiosis of the Black Power and Arts movement. Again, thank you!

  • wow

  • Education is the key to revolutionizing the consciousness. As we have witnessed in the past revolutionary movements, it is essential that we learn from them and approach this battle with Educating ourselves then educating our youth so they can continue the legacy of resistance against systematic racial oppression, degradation and mental enslavement. We are fighting for unbiased justice, human equality and cultural agency which is innately a human right.

    Justice, then peace~

  • thank you. Keep the fiya burnin'. revolution must be obtained through educating / re-educating our youth through a different gaze, on the worlds outside the Eurocentric oppressive paradigm....

  • I enjoyed this.

  • is the song sung by tarence trent darby?

  • What's your name? Who are you? Where do you come from? What is your history?...

    Blacks? African Americans? Persons of Color? Colored? Negro? Moors?

  • nice love it

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