The following questions are designed to assist you in your analysis of the documentary, particularly in making connections between the film and the key themes in the course. Responses must demonstrate familiarity with the film and be 1-3 paragraphs in length.
What are the themes highlighted in the film through the experiences of Black Punk rockers? Be sure to describe the scenes in the film in which these themes are revealed.
What is the relationship between alternative cultural expressions (music, fashion, body modification etc), politics, social justice and Black identity as depicted in this documentary?
Can this film be considered to be “a discourse on black identity”. What is your interpretation of this statement? Do the Black Punks in the film represent alternative articulations of Blackness? If so, what are they an alternative to? Explain using concrete examples from the film and incorporating relevant course material covered thus far.
Keeping in mind some of the ideas about gender and black masculinity that Riggs introduces in Black IsBlack Aint, would you say that the discourse in black identity is really a discourse in black male identity? What are the roles of Black women/female bodies and of Black men/male bodies in the documentary? How are each represented and what are the implications of these representations?
Diaspora, hybridity and the circulation of Black popular cultures are among the central concepts that we engage in this course. The festival that was inspired by this film has been in Johannesburg, Paris and London in addition to several cities around the United States. How does the Afro-Punk festival as depicted by the images and text on its website inform your understanding of global Black culture?
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