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​🔶 Project Overview​
This reflective essay explores how Black identity is formed through both personal experience and academic insight, using the 1977 miniseries Roots as a cultural anchor. By blending family memory, media analysis, and theoretical frameworks, the piece offers a deeply personal yet intellectually rigorous contribution to the study of diasporic identity.
🔶 Brief Summary​
This auto-ethnographic project examines how watching Roots as a family ritual shaped my early understanding of Blackness, and how rewatching it as an adult brought that experience into conversation with the academic theories of Paul Gilroy (“roots and routes”), Homi Bhabha (“third space”), and Kimberlé Crenshaw (“intersectionality”).
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