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Walking The Wall: Global Flâneuse With Local Dilemmas, Kinga Araya
Walking The Wall: Global Flâneuse With Local Dilemmas, Kinga Araya
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In the essay I will critically introduce and discuss some of my key “walking” performance artworks that emphasize the phenomenon of walking and talking in-between different countries, cultures and languages. More specifically, since my infamous walking away from Poland, while on a student trip in Florence, Italy in 1988, I have been trying to exercise my freedom of movement and speech while living in Italy, Canada, Germany, and currently, in the USA. The desire to make artworks that would express some of the walking ideas was very important to me.
Stroller Flâneur, Katerie Gladdys
Stroller Flâneur, Katerie Gladdys
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Pushing a baby stroller, I examine the minutiae of my suburban neighborhood, searching for patterns and narratives in the genealogies of architectural structures and topographies while simultaneously searching for items of interest for my son. My resulting observations collage both real and imagined systems into metaphors of community. The methodology informing this video is a gendered riff on the practice of the flâneur where the necessity of childcare becomes a platform for textualizing suburban space.
Review Of Revolutionary Women In Postrevolutionary Mexico By Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University Press, Durham, 2005., Gianfranco Piccone
Review Of Revolutionary Women In Postrevolutionary Mexico By Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University Press, Durham, 2005., Gianfranco Piccone
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
No abstract provided.
Editorial, Kathryn Kramer
Editorial, Kathryn Kramer
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
No abstract provided.
What Are The Implications Of Flânerie In The Feminine At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century? Reflections Of An Ethnographer At Work On The Plaça De Catalunya In Barcelona, Nadja Monnet
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
While undertaking an ethnography of a public square in Barcelona, I have been led to wonder about the figure of the flâneur and the difficulties of conceiving this figure in the feminine. Two theories about urban space are in conflict: one views public space as continuing the patriarchy of private space; the other sees public space as a site of freedom and self-development for women as well as men. This same tension is present in analyses of the figure of the flâneur, a figure often evoked when anthropologists work in urban contexts
The Nomadic Experiment Of A Steppe Land Flâneuse, Dianne Chisolm
The Nomadic Experiment Of A Steppe Land Flâneuse, Dianne Chisolm
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Imagine the flâneuse in Ulaan Bataar, with its streets unnavigable for pedestrians, and its ever-shifting ger neighborhoods that abut onto crumbling Gulag architecture, not to mention its fierce resurrection of Genghis Khan whose portrait engraved into the overlooking hills declares the city’s imperious nomadic autonomy. This paper investigates the mobilization of the 21st-century flâneuse by the contrary material forces of nomadism and urbanism that confront and transform her as she stumbles, drifts and speeds through Mongolia's city and steppes. The focus of investigation concerns the (im)possible conjunction of nomadism and flânerie on the frontier of the urban and the edge …
Kyoto Blog: 87 Days In Kyoto, Lori Ellis
Kyoto Blog: 87 Days In Kyoto, Lori Ellis
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In February, the streets are quiet. Buses are silent. Only eyes are revealed beneath hats and scarves, and yet I feel welcomed. I am bowed into and out of restaurants, stores, temples, galleries, and gardens. Within these orderly frames there are constant delights for the eye, ear, nose and palate. I am seduced and consumed by the sensual. By May, I have fallen into and out of love with every quarter of the city many times over. The forces and rhythms that affect my developing relationship with Kyoto are recorded by the almost daily entries of the Kyoto Blog.
Site-Seeing, Meggan Gould
Site-Seeing, Meggan Gould
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In Site-seeing, I look to address the disciplinary structures surrounding photographic vision through a series of photographs in which I have removed the camera from its habitual proximity to the eye, allowing it greater corporeal liberty. Through this series of mobility-induced images, I seek to explore the visual experience of embodied interstitiality, of being at neither point A nor point B, but caught in motion between the two.
She's Walking . . ., Henry Gwiazda
She's Walking . . ., Henry Gwiazda
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Left Of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones By Carol Boyce Davies, Duke University Press, Durham, 2008., Rashad Shabazz
Review Of Left Of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones By Carol Boyce Davies, Duke University Press, Durham, 2008., Rashad Shabazz
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Specters Of Mother India: The Global Restructuring Of An Empire By Mrinalini Sinha, Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2006., Sharon Pillai
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
No abstract provided.
From In Lincoln’S Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot In Springfield, Illinois, Roberta Senechal
From In Lincoln’S Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot In Springfield, Illinois, Roberta Senechal
Trotter Review
“In Lincoln’s Shadow” refers to a powerful and enduring symbolic
connection between the riot and the city’s most famous former resident:
Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, northern whites generally assumed
that violence against African Americans was a southern problem—and part
of the South’s moral inferiority. The Springfield riot shattered this assumption.
Oral Histories Of The Springfield, Illinois, Riot Of 1908, Edith Carpenter, Albert Harris, Nathan L. Cohn, Mattie Hale, Sharlottie Carr
Oral Histories Of The Springfield, Illinois, Riot Of 1908, Edith Carpenter, Albert Harris, Nathan L. Cohn, Mattie Hale, Sharlottie Carr
Trotter Review
Most daily newspapers published at the turn of the twentieth century carried little news of the lives of African Americans, let alone their perspectives. That was indeed the case with the coverage of dailies in Springfield, Illinois, about the riot of August 1908 in which whites intentionally tracked, harmed, and killed blacks. Thanks to the foresight of oral historians working in the 1970s and the diligence of college librarians in preserving their interviews, a record exists of the varied responses of African-American residents to the violence of the roaming white mob. Some fled. Some hid. Others took up arms to …
The Brownsville, Texas, Disturbance Of 1906 And The Politics Of Justice, Garna L. Christian
The Brownsville, Texas, Disturbance Of 1906 And The Politics Of Justice, Garna L. Christian
Trotter Review
An acrimonious civilian-military conflict reached into the halls of Congress and the White House when residents of Brownsville, Texas accused the First Battalion, 25th Infantry, of attacking the town from Fort Brown around midnight on August 12, 1906, claiming the life of one townsman and injuring two others.
The disputed episode took place against the background of deteriorating racial relations in the state and region, an enhanced selfconfidence of black soldiers following heroic achievements in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine insurrection, and the economic decline of the South Texas town bordering the Rio Grande. Texas, like other southern states, …
Veterans In The Fight For Equal Rights: From The Civil War To Today, Ron E. Armstead
Veterans In The Fight For Equal Rights: From The Civil War To Today, Ron E. Armstead
Trotter Review
When a man puts his life at the disposal of the nation, that man has earned the rights of a citizen. So the black man owes it to himself and to his advancement to heed the call of war. That is what Frederick Douglass thought, and he gave voice to that opinion in his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881): “I … urged every man who could to enlist to get an eagle on his button, a musket on his shoulder, and the star-spangled banner over his hand.” History has proven him wrong. black men and black …
African-American Activist Mary Church Terrell And The Brownsville Disturbance, Debra Newman Ham
African-American Activist Mary Church Terrell And The Brownsville Disturbance, Debra Newman Ham
Trotter Review
Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) demonstrated the philosophy of calm courage many times in a long life of activism. In the middle of her life, when three companies of African-American soldiers in Brownsville, Texas, were dismissed without honor and without a hearing in 1906, she readily came to their defense. Their dismissals followed a racial disturbance during which one white man was killed and several others wounded in Brownsville. Terrell, at the urging of some African-American leaders, went to see Secretary of War William Howard Taft to request that the action against the black troops be rescinded until they received a …
Commentary, Kenneth J. Cooper
Commentary, Kenneth J. Cooper
Trotter Review
Barack Obama has made history by dispatching to the dustbin another usage for the tiresome phrase “first black.” As president, he is also going to make the future, both during his term and long after. The country’s racial-ethnic landscape, with its dangerous crevices and sheer mountains, is about to change in monumental ways.
His presence in the White House will promote more interracial dialogue, for one, and for the good of the country. This will not be a small change. The novelist Richard Wright once explained that he chose exile in Paris in the 1940s because he could not have …
United States V. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study In Law And Racial Conflict, Debora L. Threedy
United States V. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study In Law And Racial Conflict, Debora L. Threedy
American Indian Law Review
This article is a case study of United States v. Hatahley using the methodology of "legal archaeology" to reconstruct the historical, social, and economic context of the litigation. In 1953, a group of individual Navajos brought suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the destruction of over one hundred horses and burros. The first section of the article presents two contrasting narratives for the case. The first relates what we know about the case from the reported opinions, while the second locates the litigated case within the larger social context by examining the parties, the history of incidents culminating …
The Naacp Is Born (Excerpts From >The Broadax)
The Naacp Is Born (Excerpts From >The Broadax)
Trotter Review
The black press appears not to have anticipated the NAACP would emerge as the nation’s largest and most enduring civil rights organization. The initial meeting on May 30, 1909, of the National Conference on the Status of the American Negro, renamed a year later the NAACP, received indifferent or skeptical treatment in half of the black newspapers whose copies survive. The historic gathering in New York was overshadowed by two other meetings in the same city, of the Tuskegee Negro Conference and the National American Negro Political League, and by President William Howard Taft’s commencement address at Howard University in …
'Since This Is A Horrible Thing To Think About': European Perceptions Of Native American Cannibalism, Evan C. Rothera
'Since This Is A Horrible Thing To Think About': European Perceptions Of Native American Cannibalism, Evan C. Rothera
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
Contemporary Italian playwright Dario Fo wrote a satirical play entitled Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas which purported to be the account of one Johan Padan, a contemporary of Columbus, who journeyed to the New World, was shipwrecked, and rescued by some friendly Indians. At one point, Padan and a group of his fellows discussed the hospitality of the Indians, who were quite generous. One of them expressed the fear that the Indians simply care for them so that they will make a splendid feast. Another man remarked, quite scathingly, “This is the third voyage I’ve made to …
Female Captivity Narratives In Colonial America, Kathryn O'Hara
Female Captivity Narratives In Colonial America, Kathryn O'Hara
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
The female captivity narrative provides a complex view of colonial American history by recounting the experiences of women captured from their colonial homes by Native Americans. Male editors, often family friends or town ministers, generally compiled the experiences of female captives, and separating the voice of the female captive from influence of the male editor presents a challenge. Puritan captivity narratives in particular demonstrate conflict between attempts by Puritan ministers to impose a unified religious message in the sagas and the captives’ individual experiences, which often contradicted Puritan doctrine. During the early colonial era, ministers’ attempts to promote the Puritan …
Pushkin And Gannibal: Ethnic Identity In Imperial Russia, Miriam Grinberg
Pushkin And Gannibal: Ethnic Identity In Imperial Russia, Miriam Grinberg
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
Since his untimely death in 1837, the nineteenth-century romantic writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been renowned the world over not only for his literary achievements, but also for being a paradigm of "Russianness." However, Pushkin himself was by no means a "pure" Russian. Like many of the inhabitants of the Russian empire during his time, he was borne of a veritable hodgepodge of ethnicities. The most surprising of these is his African ancestry; his great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was an African slave brought to Russia in the early eighteenth century. Remarkably, this same slave became the godson and close confidante …
The Houston Mutiny Of 1917, Garna L. Christian
The Houston Mutiny Of 1917, Garna L. Christian
Trotter Review
One of the deadliest race riots in the strife-ridden World War I period, the Houston Mutiny, otherwise known as the Camp Logan riot, resulted in more than twenty deaths and the largest number of executions in the history of the United States military.
The mutiny occurred on the night of August 23, 1917, less than a month after the Third Battalion of the African-American 24th Infantry arrived in Houston, Texas. Companies I, K, L, and M, consisting of 645 enlisted men and seven officers under the command of Col. William Newman, and later Maj. Kneeland S. Snow, drew the assignment …
The Naacp In The Twenty-First Century, Dianne M. Pinderhughes
The Naacp In The Twenty-First Century, Dianne M. Pinderhughes
Trotter Review
“The leadership was overly concerned with recognition from whites, a concern that helped prevent the organization from taking a confrontational stance. The program overly oriented to a middle-class agenda and not nearly strong enough to the kinds of economic issues that mean most to workingclass black people. [And] the organization [was] too centralized.”
These views of the problems of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are not those of a present-day critic, reflecting on the Association’s recent woes. They were formed by Ella Baker during her years as the NAACP’s assistant field secretary in 1941 and as …
The Racial History Of Juvenile Justice, Geoff K. Ward
The Racial History Of Juvenile Justice, Geoff K. Ward
Trotter Review
In October 2007, the Boston chapter of the NAACP hosted a roundtable on the Niagara Movement. In honor of the Niagara Movement meeting in Boston in 1907, the NAACP and the Trotter Institute collaborated on a series of events marking the centennial of the gathering Niagara men and women in Boston, the largest of five annual meetings of the Niagara Movement and the first to include women as voting delegates. The roundtable, like the 1907 Niagara Movement meeting, was held in Faneuil Hall. The inclusion of women as full participants in the Niagara Movement speaks to the force and significance …