This essay offers a comparative analysis of Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman and its 2021 sequel directed by Nia DaCosta. Through an intertextual approach informed gothic studies, narratology, critical race theory, the shows how DaCosta’s film establishes transformative relationship with predecessor. In film, rewrites story original, disrupts stereotypical representation Blackness, appropriates hor...

Title: BEYOND RACIAL STEREOTYPES: SUBVERSIVE SUBTEXTS IN CABIN IN THE SKY Kate Marie Weber, M.A., 2008 Directed by: Dr. Richard King, Associate Professor of Musicology The 1943 film Cabin in the Sky holds an important place in cinematic history as one of the first “all-Negro” pictures produced by a major Hollywood studio. The movie musical reflects a transitional period in American racial polit...

This paper analyzes Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the lens Afropessimism, a critical theory which characterizes Blackness as being in perpetual state ontological death that is linked to slavery America. The author argues racist ‘anti-racist’ rhetoric premised upon third tier terror anti-Blackness, white counter-hegemonic thought, manifests gross negrophilia Black people, b...

Contemporary critical theory and black studies have witnessed a surge in theoretical accounts of “blackness” as “nothingness”. Drawing on the work poet cultural theorist Fred Moten, this article offers reading recent postulation blackness “nothingness” light some similar endeavors post-Kantian European philosophy. By comparing Moten’s “paraontological” conception nothingness to Heidegger’s self...

This paper will attempt to identify and discuss the following issues: (1) concepts of African American Native identities as aspects mode production in Euro-American or Western capitalism, specifically employed by former North colonies that now comprise United States, well States during modern era; (2) How these form “Blackness” “Indianness” were utilized establish capitalism (3) The concept pol...