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4 - The Afropessimism of Bamboozled
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In this discussion, I explore the pessimism of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a 2000 film that offers a thought experiment: what would happen if television broadcast a minstrel series? What are the theoretical foundations of the claims coming out of this experiment? Lee, I claim, is drawing on the key insights of afropessimism, in particular the claim that antiblackness is an ontology of our world - the origin of our personal, collective, and shared world being - and therefore saturates all forms of representation, feeling, performance, and judgement. This allows us to see how the film is melancholic, pessimistic, and largely without hope. The white gaze, the Black gaze, and the interracial space of spectatorship are all generated from the same antiblack structure of being. Minstrelsy generated in this ontology, and its social, cultural, and political productions, registers as humor and pleasure - often despite our most resolute political commitments.
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