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“Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This essay examines the film Morris from America (2016) from an Afrofuturist vantage point. On the surface, the film is about being black in Heidelberg, Germany. Yet, upon closer examination, the film presents the “black experience” from a black American perspective and discounts the Afro-German experience and the city’s legacy of antiracist activism. Thus, this narrow vision fails to offer a nuanced portrayal of racism in Germany, and shows the limitation of the American imagination to move beyond U.S. born stereotypes of African descended people.
Publication Title
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Publication Date
8-7-2020
Volume
37
Issue
4
First Page
298
Last Page
309
ISSN
1529-5036
DOI
10.1080/15295036.2020.1820539
Keywords
Afro-Germany, afrofuturism, Antiracism, hip hop, stereotypes
Repository Citation
Power-Greene, Ousmane, "“Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)" (2020). History. 107.
https://commons.clarku.edu/historyfac/107
