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Interrogating Gender Politics and Black Power in Newark NJ : An Interview with Charles Bennett Brack, Producer of Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Author(s) -
Townsend Charles
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2012.01152.x
Subject(s) - contest , ideology , politics , black power , lesbian , power (physics) , sociology , context (archaeology) , documentation , media studies , gender studies , art history , art , political science , history , archaeology , law , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
An interview with the activist–filmmaker, Charles Bennett Brack, permits a grounded discussion of the anthropological and sociological fundamentals of gender ideology as they are located in the larger context and contest of Newark, New Jersey's Black political machine in the early 21st century. In the video accompanying this essay, Brack interrogates the gendered politics of Black Power through his documentation of the story of the murder of a young lesbian, Sakia Gunn, a 15‐year‐old Black girl.