Mar 19, 2015
Adilifu
Nama, Professor of African-American Studies at Loyola Marymount
University and expert on race and popular culture is the guest on
this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega
Show.
Adilifu has written several
books including Black Space and Super Black.
He has also written a
forthcoming book on the films of Quentin
Tarantino.
In this fun episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Adilifu and Chauncey
take a long and winding walk along the colorline and its
intersections with race, popular culture, and science
fiction.
Adilifu and Chauncey discuss
their mutual discovery of a love of science fiction and film, how
to reconcile white supremacy and science fiction as fans who are
people of color, talked about their fear of the comic book store
and the Whiteness of geek and nerd culture, and shared thoughts
on Django: Unchained, teaching film, and the
existential dilemmas of "blackness".
Chauncey and Adilifu also share
their favorite horror movies--hint: one of them is the recent
pathology porn film "Precious"--and mutual love of Clint Eastwood's
revisionist Western classic "Unforgiven".
Chauncey shares some thoughts
about Ferguson and his recent appearance on Ring of Fire
TV, rants about incompetent tech support for his new HD
webcam, talks about white Right-wing domestic terrorists, and reads
a passage from Ethiop's classic essay "What Shall We do With the
White People?"