User:OliviaCEdwardz/sandbox

1.“Critical practices in everyday black life are most often deconstructive, they aim to unpack, take apart, dismember” (Dent 52).

Critiques within black life typically are negative.

2.“By insisting, in their cultural products, that Black women, on the basis of an abstracted femaleness, are unfit, Black men have been able to maintain cultural dominance in an albeit limited sphere” (Dent 97)

Black men have benefited from patriarchy by using cultural norms and stereotypes against black women.

3.“In a second viewing of Boyz N the Hood, what made me most uneasy about the portrayal of these single Black mothers was how little we’re told about them, how we, as viewers, are encouraged, on the basis of crucial visual cues, to come to stereotypical conclusion about these women” (Dent 123)

The author is unsettled by how Black mothers are subjected to stereotypical conclusion about their character based on visual messages.

4. “After all, everybody knows that when people speak about a unique popular cultural form that they have not bothered to fully inform themselves about, we simply cain’t trus’ it” (Dent 138).

People that speak about cultural forms that maybe rare or not their own but actually don't have complete knowledge about the subject shouldn't be trusted as an informative source.

Chappelle's Show was heavily influenced by hip-hop music and culture, he featured some of the most known and relevant artists of the time as opening and closing acts to his show, the likes of Kanye West, Erykah Badu, and Common to name a few. In an episode featuring a spoof of Diddy's MTV reality show, Making the Band featuring Da Band, Chappelle reenacts and adds humor to band mate, Dylan Dilinjah's inflated ego. Chappelle also pokes fun at Diddy's ridiculous requests, such as having the cast walk from Manhattan to Junior's in Brooklyn for a slice of cheesecake. In the parody, Chappelle, as Diddy's, orders the members of Da Band to walk to the Bronx to get breastmilk from a Cambodia immigrant. This episode

The ability to have a familial connection on the bases of culture between "montages of blackness", its an indefinite collection and exchange of the common problems, joys, and other emotions and experiences. While it can be observed and commodified by people of other racial backgrounds, black culture, is a form of resistance to cultural domination.