1.) This first question is surface level, but I think the discussion that comes from it will be fruitful. What are some ideas that come to mind when Hall says "There is, of course, a very profound set of distinctive historically defined black experiences that contribute to those alternative repertoires I spoke about earlier. But it is to the diversity, not the homogeneity, of black experience that we must now give our undivided creative attention. This is not simply to appreciate the historical and experiential differences within and between communities, regions, country and city, across national cultures, between diasporas, but also to recognize the other kinds of difference that place, position, and locate black people" (Hall 476). This quote is from Hall's "What is this 'black' in black popular culture?".
2.) Earlier in the chapter, "What is this 'black' in black popular culture?" Hall discusses global postmodern "represent[ing] an ambiguous opening to difference" and backlash as "the aggressive resistance to difference" (Hall 471). Given the 3 interactions that people can have with media (acceptance, negotiation, and opposition), does this mean that the global postmodern leans towards negotiation in its response to modernism? In turn, is backlash, in this chapter, the equivalent of an oppositional stance? Is there more nuance?
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