Reconstructing black identity: The Black Panther, Frantz Fanon and Achilles Mbembe in conversation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Reconstructing black identity: The Black Panther, Frantz Fanon and Achilles Mbembe in conversation | |
| Creator | Beyers, Jaco | |
| Description | It is dehumanising to identify people in terms of colour. Stereotyping and discrimination come with racial identification. Black identity has been expressed in different forms over the centuries. For a long period black identity was a constructed identity assigned to black people through a white-dominated matrix. After the end of slavery, efforts were made to reconstruct black identity. This developed into two divergent lines: one resulting in an illusionary identity as identified by Frantz Fanon and a second line of thought of a continued search for a true authentic black identity as explicated by the Cameroon-born philosopher Achilles Mbembe. This process of creating a new authentic black identity is still ongoing and viewed by some as a pessimistic futile attempt. An example of the ongoing attempt for establishing an authentic black identity is illustrated by the movie Black Panther, which attempts to portray a different side of being black. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-10-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v75i4.5469 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 75, No 4 (2019); 7 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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