This comparison between gentrification and colonialism has been challenged by numerous Indigenous critics. This same slogan has appeared on T-shirts and protest signs and has been incorporated into activism against gentrification in US urban centers from Brooklyn to Seattle. In the spring of 2016, for example, the phrase was stenciled onto the sidewalk in front of the Jefferson Street subway station in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. "Walking on Indigenous land we call the ghetto."-Soufy, "Soul Alive" T he idea that "gentrification is the new colonialism" has become increasingly ubiquitous in anti-gentrification movements in the United States. To better understand the relationship between industrialization and the African American shaping of aesthetics of modernity, this article analyzes black experiences and embodiment of industrial labor and the ways that African Americans drew from their particular experiences of industrial labor toward the creation of critical cultural technology. The important contributions of theLindy Hop as a dance style and Michael Jackson as a performer have had a profound impact on the aesthetics of modernity in American social and popular concert dance. This article analyzes the dialectical relationships of industrialization, racism, and modern aesthetics, through the lens of the innovative African American social dance form, the Lindy Hop and the virtuosic pop performances of Michael Jackson. Furthermore, this artistic expression, fueled by the angst of changing times generally and tensions facing African Americans in particular, has served as American catharsis through the creation of innovative cultural expressions. The stress and fatigue of machines, labor, capitalism, and racism, imposed on bodies during the industrial revolution and in the postindustrial era have provided raw material for black artistic expressions during the mid–to-late twentieth century. Through labor, art, cultural technology, and social life, African American aesthetics have breathed life into modern and contemporary American culture. African Americans have been integral in shaping the aesthetics of modernity generally, and with respect to dance in particular.
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