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Author: Yussef Cole

Another Look

Dujanah

By Yussef Cole • December 22nd, 2017

There’s a responsibility that comes with using the art, language and symbolism of another culture.

Another Look
A purple clad figure with a dice for a head and a pencil thin moustache over top of a gambling board. This is a still from the game Cuphead.

Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation

By Yussef Cole • November 10th, 2017

I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.

Separate Invisibilities – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 92

By Yussef Cole • June 23rd, 2017

Invisibility is impossible when you’re black.

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