#black American

[bantuotaku]

OMG, @netflix is about to drop the second season of High on the Hog on 11/22/23 and I can't wait...

#high on the hog #black americans #black american #soul food #black american culture #netflix #african american #black pride #black community #black excellence #black culture #black girl magic #african america history #african american cuisine #African American Culture #black history #african american history #culinary history #tv series #tv shows #Youtube

[yinlotus]

Juneteenth as an official federal holiday

#juneteenth #united states #us politics #black people #police brutality #microaggressions #african american #black american

[shanellofhouston]

#black country music #black cowgirls #country music #black love #Beyoncé #queen b #aesthetic #black American #black history #black tumblr #Texas rodeo #American #black fashion

[tani-b-art]

“…socially despised and yet artistically esteemed…”

This quote from Alain Locke can be applied to every non-Black person. Non-Black American people included.

Our subcultures, regional cultural characteristics (especially Southern Black American culture) are sooo extracted and copied, emulated and imitated, gleaned from while simultaneously being ridiculed, mocked and degraded.

Southern identifies, dialect and accents are belittled yet are modeled after and mimicked.

The specific disdain and shame for Southern Black American culture is truly something (which has really been highlighted since the announcement of this album).

And yeah, Beyoncé soo country! Been country! Is country and never shied away from it!

#Black American #Black American culture #Black Americans #Black culture #Black Southern culture #Southern culture #the South #American Requiem #country accents #accents #Alain Locke

[checking4mswonderful]

#zoey sinn #african american #black american #alabama

[sssseren]

So excited to announce the launch of my project [unhurried] {witness}!

A curation of digital memories, this piece was created under my mentor, Marisa Parham, during the 2022-2023 Scholar-Artist Residency Program of the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD).

[unhurried] {witness} was conceived during lockdown to explore Black play as a form of healing and collective witness of Black American culture, and was envisioned as MySpace meets Tumblr meets your Grandma’s house; ASMR for the soul; community memory exercise; interfacing intimacy; an archive of play; and, ultimately, an ephemeral object of cultural witness. 

✨slow play as ritual/alchemization of emotions + analog experiences in a digital space✨

More inspirations included:

-web 1.0 

-Covid play 

-inside/outside 

-adulthood/childhood 

-play/work 

To experience and explore the project, click here: https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org.

Designed to be interactive, a series of questions on your memories of the digital experience can be found here and here. All answers will be recorded anonymously and displayed in the guestbook here.

Statement from the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative at University of Maryland on the project:

Welcome [unhurried] {witness}!

Seren Sensei’s #BlackDH project creates a “a digital exploration and a visual representation of analog games such as card games, dice, dominoes, paper crafts, and rhyming hand games/hand motions, as healing cultural process among Black Americans.”

✨ You can learn more about [unhurried] {witness} at https://aadhum-news.umd.edu/unhurried-witness/

✨ You can visit the site at https://unhurried-witness.aadhum.org

#black american #culture #university of maryland #African American History #digital humanities #my work #digital #analog #memories

[gravalicious]

Betye Saar - Midnight Madonnas (1996)

Source: Kristine Juncker - Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo & Santeria (2014)

#madonna #afro-cuban #cuba #art #religion #spirituality #betye saar #black american

[alexandriablossom]

The Highlight: March 2024 New Music Video Alert – Eclectic Sounds

Artist: WILLOW

Song Title: "symptom of life"

Album Genre/Category: Alternative

Country: USA

Artist: KAMAUU

Song Title: "GARDEN"

Album Genre/Category: Vocal

Country: USA

Artist: Infinity Song

Song Title: "Slow Burn"

Album Genre/Category: Singer/Songwriter

Country: USA

-In Case You Missed It: A Music Video From 2023-

Artist: Tiera Kennedy

Song Title: "Jesus, My Mama, My Therapist"

Album Genre/Category: Country

Country: USA

Note: The genres listed above are based on how the albums are categorized on the Apple Music website.

#Youtube #TBG Network #Black Tumblr #black culture #black people #black twitter #Black American #African American #black man #black men #black woman #black women #melanin #TV Programming

[thechanelmuse]

Burna Boy answers "Why is it important that the diaspora come home?"

This shit goofy.

How you center an ethnic group in a global question...and offer a recycled, baseless stance as if that specific ethnic group who’s at home is root-less with a lost identity...🙃

Race is a construct; ethnicity is fixed. The identity of an ethnic group is defined by their culture. Black Americans are Black Americans. Simple. We’re Black beyond some melanin. We’re an amalgamation of people making us a specific ethnic group (Black) w/ well-documented genealogy, Black culture, and Black history. We’re on our ancestral land. 

“They don’t know their grandparents or where they come.” Since when? lol... Take me, for example. I know thousands within my lineage from names, birth dates, death dates, autopsy reports, photos, occupations, locations, their towns within the upper South; deep South; and South Central (Oklahoma), those who were already on this land, who were chattel enslaved on this land, who and where one was purchased then shipped to this land as human cargo to be chattel enslaved, life beyond and before the system of chattel enslavement and the nation they built, the reservations my people were already on/returned to, the colonizing crackas that invaded the land to them distant pre-colonial Europeans who were obsessed with documenting 🫠: 

We can go ancestor for ancestor.

Anybody running on that spineless narrative that Black Americans are “root-less” or “culture-less” people, resorting to a goofy, unprovoked “shaming” tactic because their ancestors were not shipped as human cargo and enslaved needs to reevaluate their life and focus. We’re in your view. There’s no shame due to slavery, beloved. Like others, Black Americans descend from survivors.

Every ethnic group has and knows their homeland. Everyone needs to be in the know about their home and the happenings on their land. Burna Boy can start with them japa waves.

#lineage matters #lineage #black american #burna boy

[itsyagergzero]

as a Black American, the idea of what happens after Palestine is free, after the genocide has stopped, is freaky because the trauma is going to be rooted in these people for generations to come, just like how the trauma of the slave trade and shit is just engrained in Black Americans. Generational trauma is no joke, and it will impact Palestinians more than it already has all because a group of colonizers couldn’t resist colonizing more than they already have.

#this is near nonsensical but its on my mind #black american #kris’ rambles #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #slavery #black lives matter #black-palestine solidarity #mixed kid

[thievessaintlaurxnt]

I am not the original creator of this post. But its dope af tho.

#black tik tok #black ppl #aave #ebonics #afrocentric #black american #black culture #black history #funny #comedy #linguistics

[bantuotaku]

A Black People's History of Parties

#youtube #lexual media #harlem renaissance #black american #black american culture #black americans #house party #black american history #freaknik #rent parties #black american heritage #jook joint #juke joint #cross bronx expressway #voguing #vogue dance #bronx block parties #Po' Monkey's #Blue Front Cafe #Jimmy Duck Holmes

[yinlotus]

in honor of juneteenth, i've been researching my genealogy starting with my mom's side since I know a bit more about them and so far have learned:

my 5th great grandmother was mulatto and born in 1800 [<- i'm imagining the clothes she wore during the georgian and victorian era! i assume it's similar to the bayasoube video i posted earlier of the southern belle fashion 🥰]

most of my family on my mom's side is from southern and central alabama and have been for 6-7 generations (i.e around 170 years) (before that they seem to be from georgia and virginia)

my family is possibly alabama creole? they were in the right area at the right time and mixed so hm.... and maybe mississippi creole on my dad's side idk.

based on what i saw, the seven ancestors who lived before 1865 were all born free (besides maybe two or three)

my 4th great grandfather fought in the civil war as a member of the union side's colored troops in either alabama or georgia

my 4th great grandmother was a cook

i haven't found the indigenous ancestry that i was told about but i won't rule it out yet since it was supposed to be fairly recent and some laws makes it harder to be counted as part of a tribe especially if you're black during those time periods

etc etc.

it's really cool to learn and i wish i could learn more, unfortunately ancestry.com is mostly behind a paywall and dna tests are even more expensive and a girl gotta eat (and would like to help her parents do so as well) so.... since others have been asking today...

if anyone wants to send some money to help me out with either learning my heritage or buying groceries and gas that'd be great! my cashapp: $softestruler

#juneteenth #black heritage #mutual aid #donations #ancestry #black american

[silveragelovechild]

AMERICAN FICTION

“American Fiction” was one of the last few movies from 2023 that I wanted to see before I make my annual list of favorite movies. I’m glad I did, because it shot to the top of my favorites.

In “American Fiction” Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a professor and author whose books get good reviews but don’t sell well. He focuses on literary novels influenced by mythology. But his White publishers complain the books aren’t “Black” enough. They want gritty stories about life in “the hood”.

Two things inspire Monk to give his publishers exactly what they want. First his mother is suffering from dementia and he needs to pay for her care facility. And he comes across another Black author whose book “We's Lives In Da Ghetto” is a best seller. Monk thinks the book pander to White readers using the worst stereotypes of modern African Americans. So he decides to write one of his own as a joke.

The problem is that the publishers don’t get the joke. They love the book and offer him $700k to buy it. That’s quickly followed by a $4million dollar offer to adapt it into a movie.

The story then crosses between Monk’s personal life (ailing mother, gay brother, and budding romance) and the book which becomes an out of control freight train he can’t stop.

I love the dialogue’s wry sense of humor, and the cast is terrific. It includes Leslie Uggams as the mother, Tracee Ellis Ross as the sister (who sadly isn’t in the movie long enough), Sterling K Brown as the Brother, and Erika Alexander as the love interest.

“American Fiction” is written and directed by Cord Jefferson. His resume includes writing for my favorite TV series of 2019 - “Watchmen” for which he won an Emmy.

As I praise the movie, I do hesitate a bit. Am I part of the joke? Is this the movie about African Americans that I want to watch? No, matter. It’s well written and directed and made me laugh out loud.

#review #american fiction #jeffrey wright #cord jefferson #leslie uggams #Black American #African American #satire #wry sense of humor #sterling k. brown

[tani-b-art]

All on a Mardi Gras Day

#Mardi Gras Indians #Mardi Gras #Fat Tuesday #New Orleans #Black American #Black American culture #Black American tradition #Black American ritual #Black Americans #Black Native Americans

[invalleumbraemortis]

You know what’s so super fucking insidious to me? When some black immigrants hold their ability to travel and their experiences with travel over the heads of African Americans as an “I gotcha” as soon as a particularly ignorant African American person says something ignorant. I hate that shit. It feels so icky.

And on occasion, I see these takes from the same people that talk about how bad capitalism is. It’s even more insidious when you consider all of the “to prison” pipelines that there are systemically targeting AAs which not only financially limit us and in general limit opportunities, especially for black men, but also creates difficulties for securing visas to actually live and travel to some of these other places. Like I literally watched a man at the shelter I volunteer at break tf down because he won a trip and can’t even go because of a charge he had in 2004.

Like let’s bffr, in a country where race, ethnicity, and class are highly intersectional you’re gonna flex your access to a luxury? Cause… travel is a luxury… I mean cool I guess. But there are also ppl on the continent of Africa and across the diaspora in general, who literally cannot afford air travel and vacation and it is not at all attributed to or related to their intelligence.

I understand that American imperialism has done global harm and being American gives us some privilege outside of America, but truly the bulk of us will never get to experience it or don’t know that(this is another conversation on how American media, propaganda and education systems are systemically limited and under funded in the communities the majority of us reside in).

As AAs in this country we experience a specific type of systemic racism as well as ethnicism from the American government that consistently goes out of its way to harm and hinder us. Like yea black immigrants def experience racism here too, and more than other immigrants because of global anti blackness/stereotypes and discrimination against africans. But the structure of American racism was specifically built off of oppressing african americans which is why the success of immigrants and the accessing the American dream(not just black immigrants) is weaponized against(see examples model minority myth).

I get being frustrated with the ignorance and xenophobia that you experience from some AAs and I’m not tryna tell you how to feel…. And by all means call them out on their bullshit….but my god please pick a better way to address without being terribly tone deaf, elitist, and classist.

#personal bloop #african american #black american