news from kintespace.com ::: Thursday, October 30, 2008
news from kintespace.com
::: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Contents:
- ::: Elaine Brown: The Condemnation of Little B ::: Fumi Bankole: Canaan’s Labyrinth ::: David Bowie: the rasx() Bowie Collection
::: Elaine Brown: The Condemnation of Little B
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_elaine_brown0.html
While the fashion among the majority of Americans of African descent is to be moved by the poetry of “hope” and “change” for America in the election year of 2008, Elaine Brown years ago at Scripps College declared that America must be born again. Her short history of Africans in America is one of the finest and most accessible intellectual rap sessions I have ever heard!
This streaming audio presentation is a must for a powerful introductory, historical, contextual overview of the dominant Black experience. In “Postmodern Blackness,” bell hooks makes a significant effort to remind us to challenge a simplified, essential Black experience. My suggestion here is that when we depart from the ‘traditional essentials’ we must make sure we depart from the place where Elaine Brown is standing.
::: Fumi Bankole: Canaan’s Labyrinth
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/kp_fumi0.html
Canaan’s Labyrinth is the story of a young woman whose task it is to bridge the gap between her own multiracial people who survive in tunnels beneath the ground and the pure race people who live in the ultra modern Sky City, unaware that the medicines that maintain them come from the blood of the multiracials living in the squalor of a giant slum beneath their perfect ecotopia.
::: David Bowie: the rasx() Bowie Collection
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_bowie0.html
I have been exposing my teenaged, virginal fascination with David Bowie on the Web since “Black Tie White Noise” (1998). For legal reasons alone, I would have never imagined that the day would come when I could watch David Bowie music videos leisurely on demand at any resolution for no additional cost. Even though my selections at YouTube.com can disappear at any moment, I have finally revised my imagination and present my long-time Bowie favorites.
Legal machinations aside, my intentions are to share with you my favorite music video of all time, “Ashes to Ashes,” why I call myself “the kinté space oddity,” some comedy from the Seu Jorge character and a possible glimpse at Luther Vandross (Bowie’s vocal arranger for the Young Americans project) on an old ’70s Tee Vee show. Let’s see what happens: It’s too late to be hateful. The European Man is here.