Jafa is a cultural critic/worker, visual artist and African diasporic organic intellectual of the first order. His thinking around questions of black cultural politics, black cultural nationalism and film is published in Michele Wallace's
Black Popular Culture (1992). A s cinematographer, he has hone work with Julie Dash, on
Daughters of the Dust as well as Spike Lee's
Crooklyn and Manthia Diawara's
Rouch in Reverse.
Image: After the Dance: Conversations on Michael Jackson's Black America at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. June 5, 2010
Panel: To Be White, Gifted and Black: Managing Acceptable Representations of Blackness as the "King of Pop" featuring DJ Qool Marv, Arthur Jafa, dj lynnee denise, Esther Armah.
