{"id":2212,"date":"2014-01-14T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/14\/because-many-slaves-had-their-history-erased-by\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:54","slug":"because-many-slaves-had-their-history-erased-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/14\/because-many-slaves-had-their-history-erased-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Because many slaves had their history erased by their owners when they were brought to America from Africa centuries ago, Afrofuturism emerged in 20th-Century music, film, art and literature and pointed this exiled culture in a new direction: the future. In this view, Africans are the alien \u2018other\u2019 in Western society, stigmatized as outcasts, who must build bridges in their imaginations to a new utopia, possibly far removed geographically and spiritually from the world that is marginalizing them.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20131106-janelle-monae-pops-space-oddity\">BBC &#8211; Culture &#8211; Janelle Monae: Science fiction in African-American pop<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Unexpectedly interesting article on sci-fi influences in African-American pop music. ATLiens, The Cold Vein and Deltron 3030 remain favourite albums of mine but I\u2019d never connected them under the umbrella of Afrofuturism.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because many slaves had their history erased by their owners when they were brought to America from Africa centuries ago, Afrofuturism emerged in 20th-Century music, film, art and literature and pointed this exiled culture in a new direction: the future. In this view, Africans are the alien \u2018other\u2019 in Western society, stigmatized as outcasts, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/14\/because-many-slaves-had-their-history-erased-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}