What does it mean to make art, film, music, books and journalism as a Black person in “woke America”? “American Fiction” is explicitly about that question.
on Sunday, including best picture, best adapted screenplay as a Black person in “woke America”? That’s a question I think about a lot. “American Fiction” is very explicitly about that question.
What’s it like to be one of them? A writer who’s so disgusted with literary blackface that he’s going to mock them all by wearing it, just to show them how ridiculous it all is? But then they love it. And it’s profitable. And he needs the money. Now what?Again, that’s a good movie. But I wanted the cultural commentary to poke me in the chest a little more with Monk’s personal dilemma as a Black writer.
I agree that this movie is brilliant and multilayered. It hits a little close to home on many levels, both professionally in journalism and publishing and also personally, navigating changing family relationships as age sets in with my elders.This movie is about the absurdities of White “woke liberals,” for whom the language of inclusion and allyship masks patronizing behavior, stereotyping, etc., which maintains White power over the types of Blackness that get platformed.
That perfectly captured the dynamics of today. “Listen to Black voices,” “Trust Black women,” all of these mantras that became popular in 2020 are, of course, overly simplistic. But even if an organization decides to listen more to its Black staffers, the obvious question is, “Which Black voices are we listening to?” After the 2020 protests, it became clear that Democratic Party leadership was going to listen to some Black voices and not others .
Black creators need to be willing to fight for products that challenge the power structure of the country. Managers need to stop blocking or softening content created by Black people that challenges power structures.
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