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American Mythologies : The Construction of Black Identity What does it mean to be Black?

This branch of Technoculture Research explores the unique narratives, histories and cultural qualities that embody our idea of Blackness, with it’s foundational roots being in American soil. It was African Americans who made their distant cousins across the African continent want to be Black. In our time, we search for the first inklings of civilization, the “first” human marking our ancestry through the annals of time. In some future time, they might ask: Who was the first Black man? How was Hip-Hop technology invented? What does it mean for something or someone to be “on fleek”?