We're Going Black(er) AKA Dear Woke People

Still Processing

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the last 30 years, blackness has migrated from the margins of American popular culture to its center. Right now, a bounty of television, movies, and music engages with the question of how people signal to each other that they’re down with blackness. And it isn't just white people doing the signaling. It's black people too, albeit in a different way. We’ll dig into Netflix’s new show “Dear White People,” and television and film from the 1980s and 1990s and try to understand: what does it mean to perform blackness?

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.4	I'm Wesley Morris and we're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.4	I mostly write about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.4	And I mostly write about how music, popular culture, movies relate to humans.
0:13.0	This is still processing.
0:24.9	Welcome back to our show.
0:27.3	We take this space where every week we talk about our obsessions and fixations and popular culture.
0:32.3	So what are you fixated on? What's happening with you?
0:35.3	I love your hair this week, by the way.
0:37.1	Thank you.
0:38.1	I'm not living here every week, but you look an extra good today.
0:40.3	I got to thank you so much.
0:41.3	Okay. So a few years ago, I bought a Harry Styles iPhone case as a joke.
0:46.1	But it turns out the joke's on me because Harry Styles is back in business as a solo artist
0:50.7	and he's incredible.
0:52.1	He's divided with Stevie Nicks over the weekend.
0:55.1	They sing landslide together.
0:56.5	I just got to find the iPhone case again.
1:14.5	That record is good.
1:15.5	Go on.
1:16.5	Okay. I've bought more women's magazines right now than I ever have in my entire life.
1:21.5	Ask me why.
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