Afrofuturism is a future we all image. Afrofuturism is a movement, a voice of the new generation, the end of white-supremacist, an opening of the mind with the desire to connect to our disowned self. Why do I say “disowned self”? Because we live in a world influenced by whitewashed movie and books, ever since we were young we were taught that a reliable image of a manager or a doctor is a Caucasian lady smiling. We were taught that being skinny like Fashion TV models is the definition of beauty, we were taught through the media that Africa is nothing but poor, hunger and drought, that Black people are nothing but savage… The white-supremists have done a very good job in putting a little chip in our brain to operate us, to make us robots
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In her work “Yo mama” we see a woman stepping on a head of a serpent and killed it with her heels. Around her are planets on a pink background. The piece was based on the story of Adam, Eve and the serpent (Genesis chapter 3), symbolized for the strong, independent Black woman who reclaimed her right back to paradise because she knew she deserved the best. The pink background represents for feminism. Getting deep into the issue of European influenced media coverage and white-supremist society in the 17th we have “Le Noble Savage”. The pictures depicts a Black female figure kneeing on the ground, one hand raised up like the statue of Liberty holding a fern occupied with a lot of wild birds. First, even the title spoke about European “civilization”. “Savage” is a word appeared in 17th European literature to imply that Black people are primitive and discredited them from any achievements. “Noble Savage” is a mockery that depicted an image of an indigenous human being who is not influenced by what the Europeans so call “civilization” and still attain the goodness, the humane nature inside her heart. One noteworthy detail is her skin. Her skin has sores symbolized for diseases that the African continent have to …show more content…
Getting a bit of the Other, in this case engaging in sexual encounters with non-white females, was considered a ritual of transcendence….. an acceptable rite of passage.” (). This represent the hypersexualization of the Black female bodies and consider it as an object, as “fucking was a way to confront the Other” ( Eating the other: Desire and Resistance- Bell Hook). Mulu’s work of art speak out loud against this disgusting white culture, that the title Black based on just the color of the skin does not determine a person, that it should not have to withstand any look or any kind of discrimination or sexualization, that a Black woman like Mulu should be remembered as going to Yale, CAN go to Yale, a successful artist and a cultural, intelligent woman. Black bodies, especially Black female bodies should not be a tool to trap them, instead it should be celebrated, loved and accepted. Wangechi Mulu: “… Part of my challenge…is to envision, not so much blackness as a race, but the existence of African elements in culture in the future and how is that possible.”, she will continue to inspire other Afro-futurists and continue to blossom
In her work “Yo mama” we see a woman stepping on a head of a serpent and killed it with her heels. Around her are planets on a pink background. The piece was based on the story of Adam, Eve and the serpent (Genesis chapter 3), symbolized for the strong, independent Black woman who reclaimed her right back to paradise because she knew she deserved the best. The pink background represents for feminism. Getting deep into the issue of European influenced media coverage and white-supremist society in the 17th we have “Le Noble Savage”. The pictures depicts a Black female figure kneeing on the ground, one hand raised up like the statue of Liberty holding a fern occupied with a lot of wild birds. First, even the title spoke about European “civilization”. “Savage” is a word appeared in 17th European literature to imply that Black people are primitive and discredited them from any achievements. “Noble Savage” is a mockery that depicted an image of an indigenous human being who is not influenced by what the Europeans so call “civilization” and still attain the goodness, the humane nature inside her heart. One noteworthy detail is her skin. Her skin has sores symbolized for diseases that the African continent have to …show more content…
Getting a bit of the Other, in this case engaging in sexual encounters with non-white females, was considered a ritual of transcendence….. an acceptable rite of passage.” (). This represent the hypersexualization of the Black female bodies and consider it as an object, as “fucking was a way to confront the Other” ( Eating the other: Desire and Resistance- Bell Hook). Mulu’s work of art speak out loud against this disgusting white culture, that the title Black based on just the color of the skin does not determine a person, that it should not have to withstand any look or any kind of discrimination or sexualization, that a Black woman like Mulu should be remembered as going to Yale, CAN go to Yale, a successful artist and a cultural, intelligent woman. Black bodies, especially Black female bodies should not be a tool to trap them, instead it should be celebrated, loved and accepted. Wangechi Mulu: “… Part of my challenge…is to envision, not so much blackness as a race, but the existence of African elements in culture in the future and how is that possible.”, she will continue to inspire other Afro-futurists and continue to blossom