On Kendrick Lamar & Aimé Césaire

This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote for school in 2021 (and presented on in 2023) on how Kendrick Lamar and Aimé Césaire (a Caribbean poet writing about eighty years ago) made strikingly similar gestures in their work as they tried to sort out what it means to be Black.

Here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/109Zj5s2x6zxyQjbR8d0UXFpapWlaC1n0/view?usp=sharing.

Note: There are some photos on these slides that I didn’t take. They’re mostly from Googling things like Kendrick Lamar and To Pimp a Butterfly and Aimé Césaire and Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. You can find the sources there (and I’ll try to circle back and add the sources here too).