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What did Pier Paolo Pasolini see in America? In 1966, Pasolini arrived in New York expecting to encounter the heart of American capitalism. Instead, he found a country that fascinated him: young, contradictory and shaken by the Civil Rights Movement, opposition to the Vietnam War and the emergence of the New Left. For Pasolini, the United States was a society without the class consciousness of …

What happens when a dance born from resistance becomes an Olympic sport? From the roda of capoeira to the cyphers of the Bronx, this article traces the unexpected connection between two Afro-diasporic practices shaped by rhythm, confrontation and community: capoeira and breaking. It follows how both practices have travelled, evolved and been reclaimed as tools of identity and empowerment, while …

Nearly thirty years after his death, Tupac Shakur remains one of hip hop’s most enduring and contradictory figures. This article explores the tension between representation and reality at the heart of Tupac’s story, tracing his transformation from a politically engaged artist shaped by the legacy of the Black Panthers, through the paranoia and isolation of his years in prison, to the gangster …