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The Black Artists Leaving America (Published 2021)
- “When I started out, they didn’t know what to do with me in the US,” he admits. “My music was rooted in rock’n’roll and that wasn’t what was happening with black artists at that time. Everyone was into categories and putting people in boxes. I looked how I looked and I dressed the way I dressed and so they sent me to Europe – the Europeans will dea... See more
from Inside Lenny Kravitz’s Paris Townhouse – And The Story Behind That Basquiat by Sarah Harris
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Central to this shift have been the intensification of transnational migration and the proliferation of media technologies, which have facilitated the amplification of a diasporic consciousness, and the increased political, economic, and social influence of the United States, which has allowed many black Jamaicans to evade the colonial class and ra
... See morefrom Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness by Kamari Maxine Clarke