Exclusion, Dispossession, and Alienation in Black Diversity: Why Black Groups Often Clash | Ibrahim Rahman | Essay
The Symptoms: Pop Culture Wars Last year, I followed the back-and-forth debate around a 2020 video of South Africa’s Tyla, where she described herself as both “coloured” and Black, given her Zulu, Irish, and Indian descent. Black Americans, for whom the word “colored” is associated with a history of derogation, labeled her and, by […]
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The Symptoms: Pop Culture Wars Last year, I followed the back-and-forth debate around a 2020 video of South Africa’s Tyla, where she described herself as both “coloured” and Black, given her Zulu, Irish, and Indian descent. Black Americans, for whom the word “colored” is associated with a history of derogation, labeled her and, by […]
