Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of published and new scholarship to expand the discussion on the links between modernism and primitivism. Tracing the path from Dada and Surrealism to Josephine Baker and Nancy Cunard's Negro: An Anthology, she shows the development of négrophilie from the interest in black cultural forms in the early 1920s to a more serious engagement with difference and
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D'Ora, mit bürgerlichem Namen Dora Kallmus, war eine Fotografin von internationalem Rang mit Ateliers in Wien und später in Paris, wo sich Persönlichkeiten von Gustav Klimt bis zum Kaiserhaus, Josephine Baker bis Pablo Picasso porträtieren ließen. 1940, nach der Okkupation Frankreichs, verlor sie ihren Besitz. Ihre geliebte Schwester wurde 1941 nach Lodz deportiert. D'Ora floh in den Süden Frankreichs und lebte rund drei Jahre in einem Bergdorf in der Ardèche, wo sie ein Tagebuch führte und Essays sowie einen Roman schrieb. Sie plante, Teile dieser Schriften nach dem Krieg zu veröffentlichen, fand aber keinen Verlag. Die Herausgeberin Eva Geber hat nun diesen Nachlass erstmals umfassend aufgearbeitet und begleitet ihn mit einem erläuternden Essay sowie Zeit- und Polizeidokumenten. Das Ergebnis ist das intime Bild einer Frau, die trotz Not und Gefahr nicht bereit ist, sich aufzugeben, die ihre Würde bewahren und ihre Werte leben will. D'Oras Aufzeichnungen zeigen anschaulich, wie sich der Blick eines Menschen durch die Bedrohung des Nationalsozialismus verändert.
Bald gibt es wieder "20er-Jahre", doch falls die auch zu "Roaring Twenties", "Années Folles", "Goldenen Zwanzigern" werden, wird das wegen anderer Themen sein als 100 Jahre zuvor. Da ging es um ungeahnte neue Freiheiten für Frauen, um Jazz und Charleston, um überbordende, rebellische Lebensfeier in den Metropolen. Nachzulesen in 18 Porträts von Ausnahmefrauen, Idolen ihrer Zeit, durchgehend illustriert mit markanten Fotos. Über einige wie Zelda Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Josephine Baker oder Amelia Earhart gibt es bereits reichlich Literatur, andere, wie Nancy Cunard, Claude Cahun, Lavinia Schulz oder Suzanne Lenglen, dürften weniger bekannt sein. Nach der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 endete ein wildes Jahrzehnt, die Enge der 1930er-Jahre liess es zu Geschichte werden. Der Autor (Jahrgang 1966) veröffentlichte bereits den lokal viel beachteten Titel "Hamburgerinnen, die lesen, sind gefährlich" (2011; hier nicht besprochen), sein neuer Bildband bedient die Sehnsucht nach Vorbildern, Mut, Gröe︢, Extravaganz, Bewegtheit und Lebenslust, die der aktuelle feministisch-buchhalterische Diskurs nicht befriedigt. (2)
A wise Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Freedom is never given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed (King 1)." For as long as men and women have shared the planet, sexism has been a universal issue in civilization. In a social justice context, American society has found ways to oppress people for centuries. The Oxford Dictionary defines sexism as a "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex ("sexism")." Voting rights in America were established in 1790, but it took years of petitioning at various women's rights conventions before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution stating "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" was passed in 1920 ("Nineteenth Amendment"). Traditionally, men were supposed to be the strong, decisive, driven, courageous, money-making breed, while women were expected to be the nurturing, affectionate, weak subordinates. Today, we find men and women working in careers previously linked with sexism; men as nurses and teachers, women as CEOs and factory workers. Statistics show that today there are an increasing number of women providing the financial support in their families. As with sexism, people also have been oppressed by racism for centuries. According to The Oxford Dictionary, racism is defined as a "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior ("racism")." It has been argued that African Americans have been one of the most oppressed groups in America. Even after they were emancipated in 1865, it was nearly one hundred years later that their rights were protected with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Before the act's passing, African Americans were denied equal education, employment, housing property, and a political voice. My interest in this topic was peaked right around the same time I became interested in performing on the musical theatre stage. I got my start in local community theatres, and up until college, was the only African American cast in the productions. I started playing multiple ensemble roles per show, and throughout the years advanced myself to "supporting character" but never the lead. Admittedly, there were times when I wasn't as talented as the women who snagged the leading roles, but many a time when I was just as talented or more qualified for the role, it went to another woman —most times of Caucasian descent. What did they have that I didn't have? When I got accepted into The University of Central Florida as a BFA Musical Theatre student, I auditioned for the plays and musicals every semester, and each season I began to see the same patterns of who was cast for each show. Roles I thought I would get often went to White actors. I felt victimized in this modern-day example of racism. But racism goes beyond black and White. Internal racism between the light-skinned and dark-skinned African American women I was competing with became a factor as well. There were many times when an audition notice called for an African American woman; however, an unsettling trend became very apparent to me; if the casting description was for a maid, or something of that nature, larger, dark-skinned women would get the majority of the callbacks, which would lead to them getting cast. On the flip side, if an audition notice called for an African American ingenue type, more of the slimmer, lighter-skinned women were called back and later cast. Has American society cast a racial stigma for African American beauty? ; 2014-05-01 ; B.F.A. ; Arts and Humanities, Dept. of Theatre ; Bachelors ; This record was generated from author submitted information.
Foreword -- Human origins -- Early African kingdoms -- Great Zimbabwe -- Mansa Musa -- Askia the Great -- Nzinga Mbandi -- Later African kingdoms -- Slavery in the US -- Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Olaudah Equiano -- Mary Seacole -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Tubman -- Rebecca Lee Crumpler -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- African Americans and the US Civil War -- The 54th Massachusetts -- Sarah Breedlove -- Colonialism in Africa -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Taytu Betul -- Josephine Baker -- Nelson Mandela -- Maya Angelou -- The US Civil Rights Movement -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Nina Simone -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Fela Kuti -- Wangari Maathai -- Muhammad Ali -- Oprah Winfrey -- Rosa Parks -- Postcolonial Africa -- Kwame Nkrumah and Ghanaian independence -- Barack Obama -- Serena Williams -- LeBron James -- Stormzy -- Mari Copeny -- Marley Dias -- Black history stars -- Glossary.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- INTRODUCTION -- FREDDIE MERCURY -- SAPPHO -- AUDRE LORDE -- MANVENDRA SINGH GOHIL -- FRIDA BAHLO -- EMMA GONZALEZ -- JAMES BALDWIN -- LEONARDO DA VINCI -- ALEXANDER WANG -- SUBHI NAHAS -- TOVE JANSSON -- ALAN TURING -- MICHELANGELO -- MARTINA NARRATILOVA -- SIA -- TIM COOK -- PEDRO ALMODOVAR -- VIRGINIA WOOLF -- TCHAIKOVSKY -- VIKRAM SETH -- YOTAM OTTOLENGHI -- JOHANNA SIGURGARDOTTIR -- MARSHA P. JOHNSON & -- SYLVIA RIVERRA -- DAVID BOWIE -- KASHA JACQUELINE NABAGESERA -- LILI ELBE -- MATTHEW BOURNE -- ALVIN ALIEY -- HARVEY MILK -- WILLEM ARNDEUS -- NERGIS MAVALVALA -- RUFUS WAINWRIGHT -- MARLENE DIETRICH -- LARRY KRAMER -- DIDIER LESTRADE -- NOBUKO YOSHIYA -- BAYARD RUSTIN -- CLAIRE HARVEY -- BILLIE JEAN KING -- JOSEPHINE BAKER -- K.D. LANG -- KRISTEN STEWART -- JAZZ JENNINGS -- ELIO DI RUPO -- OSCAR WILDE -- LAITH ASHLEY -- HARISH IYER -- KHALID ABDEL-HADI -- THE WACHOWSKIS -- ELLE DEGENERES & -- PORTIA DE ROSSI -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- USEFUL SOURCES.
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"An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women-from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online." In this collection of essays, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture--writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars--whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay celebrates the strength and fortitude of these Black women, while also examining the many stereotypes and rigid identities that have clung to them. In writing that is both luminous and sharp, expansive and intimate, Blay seeks a path forward to a culture and society in which Black women and their art are appreciated and celebrated"--
Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Charles Samuel Addams -- Louisa May Alcott -- Muhammad Ali -- John James Audubon -- Josephine Baker -- S. Stillman Berry -- Alexander Calder -- Rachel Carson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Roberto Clemente -- Claudette Colvin -- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge -- Joe Medicine Crow -- Charles Richard Drew -- Sylvia Alice Reade Earle -- Dian Fossey -- Yun Gee -- George Gershwin -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- David Ho -- Billie Holiday -- Langston Hughes -- Katherine Johnson -- Sal Khan -- Fred Korematsu -- Edna Lewis -- Belva Ann Lockwood -- Thurgood Marshall -- Harvey Milk -- John Muir -- Edward R. Murrow -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Paul Robeson -- Wilma Rudolph -- Sacagawea -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg -- Dr. Seuss -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens -- Maria Tallchief -- Nikola Tesla -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Anna May Wong -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- Howard Zinn -- Zitkála-Šá ("Red Bird") -- More Inspiring People to Explore -- About the Author.
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"One of the few surveys of Black style and fashion ever published, How to Slay offers a lavishly illustrated overview of African American style through the twentieth century, focusing on the last thirty-five years. Through striking images of some of the most celebrated icons of Black style and taste, from Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis to Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams, this book explores the cultural underpinnings of Black trends that have become so influential in mainstream popular culture and a bedrock of fashion vernacular today. A preponderance of Black musicians, who for decades have inspired trends and transformed global fashion, are featured and discussed, while a diverse array of topics are touched upon and examined--hats, hair, divas, the importance of attitude, the use of color, '60s style, the influence of Africa and the Caribbean, and the beauty of black skin"--Publisher's description
"For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the twentieth century, the city offered unique opportunities for personal emancipation and professional innovation. While living as expatriates in the international center of all things avant-garde, these women escaped the constraints that limited them at home and enjoyed unprecedented freedom and autonomy. Through portraiture, this volume illuminates the histories of sixty convention-defying women who contributed to the vibrant modernist milieu of Paris-including Berenice Abbott, Josephine Baker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Peggy Guggenheim, Romaine Brooks, and Gertrude Stein. Several of them rose to preeminence as cultural arbiters while exploring culture-shifting experiments in fields such as art, literature, publishing, music, fashion, journalism, theater, and dance. Beautifully illustrated, Brilliant Exiles features essays that trace the divergent trajectories of American women in Paris, examining the impact of race, class, and sexuality on their experiences in the French capital. The texts also highlight the role of portraiture in articulating new conceptions of female identity that American women were at liberty to develop in Paris. Working collaboratively with their portraitists, they honed the images that would memorialize them and redefine the imagery of modern womanhood"--
"From Near and Far relates the history of modern France from the French Revolution to the present. Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the history of France interacts with both the broader history of the world and the local histories of French communities, examining the impacts of Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Gauguin, and Josephine Baker alongside the rise of haute couture and the contemporary role of hip hop.From Near and Far focuses on the interactions between France and three other parts of the world: Europe, the United States, and the French colonial empire. Taking this transnational approach to the history of modern France, Stovall shows how the theme of universalism, so central to modern French culture, has manifested itself in different ways over the last few centuries. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance of narrative to French history, that historians tell the story of a nation and a people by bringing together a multitude of stories and tales that often go well beyond its boundaries. In telling these stories From Near and Far gives the reader a vision of France both global and local at the same time. "--
The 2015 Bougainville election was a milestone for women's political representation. The largestever cohort of women candidates contested; one candidate, Josephine Getsi in Peit constituency, became the first women elected to the House of Representatives in an open seat. She joins the three women members elected in reserved seats in a House that now has 10 per cent women's representation, although the number of women in Cabinet remains the same as in previous terms, at one. For many women candidates, however, the results of the election were disappointing, mirroring recent elections elsewhere in Melanesia, which has one of the lowest rates of women's political representation in the world. While Josephine Getsi's win is a notable individual achievement, it would appear that the vast majority of women candidates still face significant barriers to election. This Discussion Paper examines the question of how women contest and win elections in Bougainville, through an analysis of the campaign experiences of successful, near-successful and less successful women candidates.1 It adds to the empirical literature on women's political representation in the region through an in-depth study of women candidates in the 2015 Bougainville election: their profiles, motivations and campaign strategies. Furthermore, it analyses the impacts of three issues that emerged as common themes in discussions around women's participation in political decisionmaking in Bougainville: the electoral system, money politics and matrilineal traditions.
