About
Ale Duckenfield-López is a first-year PhD student at the University of Michigan’s Film, Television, and Media Studies Department. They are interested in the role popular films and music play in the construction of Black identity. Their undergraduate thesis was about Rudy Ray Moore’s Blaxploitation films, Moore’s influence on 1990s Gangsta Rap, and how they both shaped the image of Black men in the American popular imagination. They are currently working on a project about techno’s roots in Detroit and how the Black creators of the genre defined themselves in opposition to Hip Hop’s controversial representation of Black identity.
