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This essay examines Blackness and its colonial appropriation through the case of FN Meka, a robot rapper, along with other holographic, digitized representations of Black musical production. What does it mean to technically simulate Blackness? And what can be done to resist this simulation? We attem...

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Published in:Afterimage Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 84 - 111
Main Authors: Dial, A. Joseph, Baker, Margaret
Format: Article
Published: University of California Press Mar2025
Subjects:
Racial identity of Black people
Machine learning
Rap musicians
Algorithms
Robots
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost