Javay | 2x PhD Candidate

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Idk what academic needs to hear this but “professionalism” is just white supremacy coded in academia (and other corporate environments) and your using that as a critique or weakness of students of color is bullshit and subtle racism.

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industry during the 90s and early 2000s. You had the short shirts and crop tops. The way the dancers were drawn also leaned into the idealized body with curves and chestiness. Considering when the film came out it wouldn't be anywhere near an accurate description without them.

7. Powerline has video vixens. In the concert scene, we are first introduced to Powerline's backup dancers when Max becomes entranced by them as he is trying to figure out if this is a good idea. This quick moment is a display of how Black culture treated women (mainly Black women) in the music

to a place of seeing Black children as people--humans, to taking care of them as they learn and grow and meeting them where they are in life. it's a subversion of

Recognizing the ways in which the millennial and Gen Z generations are actively trying their best at gentle parenting you can't say it's not Black in A Goofy Movie. Rather than reinforcing the practices of beating our children that stems from slavery we are moving away from beating/harsh punishment

But now, Black folks are practicing gentle parenting--in a Black way, which engages in gentle parenting in a way to break generational curses and end lineages of trauma.

Goofy makes space for Max to own up to his deceit after he learns about it from Pete. He could have asked about it outright tho

I am probs gonna give them a look, but I'm gonna laugh about it very quickly after.

6. the gentle parenting that happens. Now you're immediate reaction may be that when A Goofy Movie came out Black folks weren't practicing gentle parenting and that is true.

Pete shows up and bangs on their hotel saying he is the police. when it comes to Black culture, Black folks will make joke in ways that only Black folks can, bc if a white person "jokingly" bangs on my door saying it's the police, you're under arrest -- I ain't laughing. A Black person does it...

Now, all I do is turn on oldies to start my day, wind down my day, get in a better mood, when I'm feeling nostalgic, when I'm missing my dad (he's dead).

5. Pete's sense of humor. Now, stay with me on this one bc I am specifically talking about the hotel scene when Pete & PJ show up at their room.

4. The music that plays when Big Foot has the headphones fall on his ears -- Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. If Black folks goin do anything, it's dance and it's gonna be to an oldie. Idk about you, but I regularly had oldies turned on and much like Max I wasn't a fan of my parents' music choice THEN

it's a teen thing).

3. My favorite thing about A Goofy Movie is how it falls into the "Black people don't do that" subversion, especially for its time. We all know that in more modern times, camping was something that Black people "didn't do." So for Goofy and Max to be doing it--SUBVERSIVE.

And the Blackness is really shown in the way that Goofy is so nostalgic about the Rat Show in the same way Black folks are nostalgic about Chuck E. Cheese, especially when it comes to the pizza. And Max being a teenager that is so over it is so real (granted that isn't just a Black thing,

2. The "Rat Show" as Max calls it, is Chuck E. Cheese! I'm sorry but Chuck E. Cheese is seminal to Black Culture (hello, they are in or near every Black neighborhood I have ever lived in -- and yes, my lived experience is empirical data, bc I say so).

The principal also says that Max is going to end up in the electric chair, which definitely speaks to the school to prison pipeline in which many Black students are pushed based on "behavioral" problems.

The principal also questions Goofy's parenting which is a common experience for Black parents.

The principal tells Goofy that Max was dressed as a gang member, which is definitely a projection around his baggy pants, and also an assumption on Powerline, which can be read as Powerline being considered a rapper, thus a gangster.

29 Years Ago, A Goofy Movie Became the Blackest, Most Underrated Nerd Classic of All Time A Goofy Movie is the blackest Disney movie of all time and helped Black Millennials embrace their identities / see themselves in pop culture

Now, I will not be debating about A Goofy Movie being a Black film. Argue with your mama (or read this article - blacknerdproblems.com/20-years-ago...).

1. The way the principal describes Max's behavior to Goofy when he calls him at work. (1/?)

I'm on a plane back from a conference and watching A Goofy Movie, and since media studies is on the brain, I'm gonna do a thread on how Blackness and Black culture are portrayed in A Goofy Movie. Buckle in!

It’s so wild how quickly motivation comes and goes. Wednesday I was a writing machine for this paper. Today it’s like pulling teeth. #PhDLife #WritingStruggles

Nothing makes me want to rethink being a professor than reading reflections.

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