Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Ahad-Legardy Badia
Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Ahad-Legardy Badia As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not…
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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Ahad-Legardy Badia
As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories.Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression.
Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, she reveals nostalgia's capacity to produce positive emotions. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments.