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The Fantasy Of Light
The Fantasy of Light explores Du Bois’s Theories of Double Consciousness in contrast with J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan to investigate the experience of what it means to grow up as a black child in a White supremacist world. I wanted to question who gets... More
Essay
The Fantasy of Light: Merging Our Sense of Blackness Through Du Bois and Peter Pan
Supporting Paper for The Fantasy of Light Video Work.
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Ashley Waithe
Multi Disciplinary Artist, Writer, Curator
“Ashley Waithe is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, writer and curator whose work resonates deeply with themes of nostalgia, childhood, and the exploration of Black and Afro-Caribbean identity....” [More]