Yale, Project O

The mode, in which the authors of Yale Project O chose to write, is of particular interest. Its multi authored style and production provides a complex and stylized syncretism that almost mimics a dance ensemble. This choice is particularly interesting, and breaks away from traditional intellectual scholarship and adopts a more collective and artistic vision of study.
The premise of their exploration, initially rests on the notion that African American Forms represent the mainstream of modern American cultural performance. However, this initial notion goes into an exploration of racial identity and the concept of post-racial. The substantiating evidence they provide is both compelling and seemingly conflicting.
The term, post racial, brought up in self reference, is problematic and overly abstracted. While it seems to hold a highly idealized and personal , it undermines the greater constructions of race, as a systemic While the distinction of color blindness and ignorance attempts to reconcile this, it does not contextualize the greater significances or subversive nature of radicalized society, and by self identifying as a post-racial, seemingly perpetuates a deeper issue.