![]() However, I argue that there is something profoundly different occurring on the level of music. ![]() Thus, colonial representations are not transcended in Black Panther, just refigured in an all-Black setting. Hailing from Oakland, California, Killmonger represents an African-American identity that is alienated, disenfranchised, and corrupted. Directly opposing T’Challa and the utopian Wakanda is Killmonger, the film’s antagonist. Wakanda and its people represent an unbroken chain of Black excellence that never got interrupted by colonialism, with King T’Challa embodying an African identity that is powerful, emancipatory and good. However, in its endeavor to represent and re-imagine Black identities, the film constructs a problematic duality of Black experience. ![]() ![]() In an interview with Rolling Stone, Black Panther (2018) director Ryan Coogler notes, “We were making a film about what it means to be African… It was a spirit that we all brought to it, regardless of heritage.” Together, Coogler and his team created a utopian vision of pan-African solidarity. ![]()
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