We've spent a great deal of time discussing perceptions of black aesthetics and the criminal/felon. Michelle Alexander suggests the criminal system and mass incarceration are corrupt. She boldly offers prisons should be closed, but that means the acceptance of releasing convicted felons. Could we do that?
Well, Cheo Hodari Coker offers a released felon as the hero in "Luke Cage." Not only is Cage a compassionate, caring man who represents community uplift, but he is a felon. How does this "hero" create an alternate, black beauty aesthetic of black men, or black people as not just criminals, but the quintessential American citizen?
Due Fri., 11/3/17 by the beginning of class.
