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30th Anniversary Special Edition of The Identities Newsletter
The Identities Podcast
New on The Identities BlogShaping political identity through music
Historically, music has remained a critical unifying feature of the citizens in Nigeria's political processes, particularly during campaigns. Music has achieved this by transcending the many linguistic and ethnic barriers in modern Nigeria. The country’s February 2023 presidential election was no different with campaign songs as a medium through which political ideologies and identities were broadcast and reinforced. These memorable songs laden with cultural references served as a vehicle for political messaging that was both accessible and emotionally compelling....
The invisibilization of Black children
In the technicolorized version of the film Imitation of Life (1959) about racial passing and white supremacy, Annie Johnson, a Black housekeeper, asks a rhetorical and existential question of Miss Lora Meredith, Annie’s white employer and mother of a white daughter. Referring to her Black daughter Sarah Jane, who passes for white, Ms. Johnson says, ‘How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?’ While this film is melodrama at its best, Annie's sentiment captures Black parenting and Black guardianship and its inability to protect Black children and families from systemic racism....
Democratizing now! Latiné youth and social media
Polarizing and hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric dominates political news in the US, a nation uniquely defined by both its immigrant origins and its racist, white settler colonial history. In the politically charged months leading up to the 2020 election, we interviewed dozens of Latiné young adult US citizens about their sense of belonging and responsibility to their community....
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