Released
Day before 2016 Superbowl half time show - 100 mil watched
Single
Lead single from lemonade album
6th studio album
Superbowl costume
Black panther party
Statement or capitalist point
Director
Melina Matsoukas
Released through
Parkwood Records
Own record label
Colloquialisms used
Hot sauce - baseball bat
Yellow bone - light skinned black girl
Albino alligators - aggressive white people
Bama - a black southern person
Creole - descendents from french settlers in New Orleans
Trump
Far right
Rise of white power groups in America
Institutional racism
Belief police hold prejudice
Social media
Highlight police brutality
How many civilians are killed per year
1100
How much more are black people likely to be killed
3x
How many officers face charges
Only 2%
Melina Matsoukas quote
‘I wanted to show - this is black people. We triumph, we suffer, we’re drowning, we’re being beaten, we’re dancing, we’re eating and we’re still here.’
Paul Gilroy
Race theorist
Post colonialism
View ethnic minorities through a lense of otherness - different to everyone else
Everyone has slight racism
Racial hierarchy
Formation challenges theory - shows black people in power
Bell Hooks
Feminist theorist
Intersectional feminism
Firmly believes in a patriarchal society
All women suffer prejudice
Race + class - not all women are equal
Stuart Hall
The grammar of race
3 tropes - stereotype
The clown trope - inheritently funny
The native trope - shown as barbaric
The slave trope - inheritently loyal to masters
Manuel Alvarado
4 Tropes
Humerous
Dangerous
Pitied
Exotic - sexualise people through otherness
Hurricane Katrina
Stats
Flooded 80% of New Orleans
Predominantly black - 60%
Hurricane Katrina
Info
Race war
Slow response
News - white people finding food
Black people looting food
Black lives matter
2013
Started as a #
Response to Trayvon Martin’s murder - George Zimmerman - neighbourhood watch man
14 guiding principles - 3 main - unapologetically black, queer affirming, black women
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
Costume design + setting
Antebellum era - after American civil war
Formation - antebellum costume
Scene in plantation house
Music video
Kid police force
Disproportionate response
Music video
Sat on police car
Disrespect
Music video
Police car sinking
Drowning
Can’t breathe
Kneeling on neck
Police brutality
