Ava Duvernay's Queen Sugar

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Qureshi, Bilal. "The Cultural Consolation of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar." Film Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 3, Spring2017, pp. 63-68. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1525/FQ.2017.70.3.63. This article basically sums up the American cultural life found in Queen Sugar, and the perfect timing as politics and art converge in an unprecedented moment of black creativity. The unapologetic come forth of black subjectivity onscreen. Like the civil rights movement, black lives matter, inequality, police brutality, and the prisons inequality for young black males/African Americans in general. The article explains and gives details of the reasons behind the series what message DuVernay is trying to give her audience. It also gives similarities in the series to other series …show more content…
In a brief manner, the article explains how siblings are of course radically different because that's the rule in these stress-riddled family tableaus. Neil use of the term stress riddled family explains why the show is the way it’s written and gives audiences an intake of why the characters act the way they act and show why they are different. Neil hits the important part talking about family and drama that’s present in queen sugar and how each sibling contributes. The article also explains that the series is based on a novel by Natalie Baszile and using female directors for each of its first-season episodes. Basically, it gives a scoop of what the characters are like Charley and Nova differences it gives a little description of their …show more content…
He began reviewing for The Times in 2000 while still a copy editor at the paper; he has been a full-time critic since 2011. Mr. Genzlinger has degrees from the University of Southern Maine and the Pennsylvania State University. His work at The Times has included stints writing the Jersey Column and the City Critic Column, and articles for the Travel Section, the Book Review and other parts of the paper. His name is cited in many other articles he seems to know what he’s talking about he has links to some of the things he said in the article which makes the source credible. The article is recent which add to its

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