Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema

Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic CinemaSearching Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black diasporic film tends to focus on the complexities of transnational identity, which oscillates between similarity and difference and resists easy categorization. In Contact Zones author Sheila J. Petty addresses a range of filmmakers, theorists, and

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especially the significance of variation

real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events

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helped allay French fears of invasion

when everything was about the music

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