Post Colonial Studies,
2019
Kennesaw State University
Post Colonial Studies, Nashieli Marcano, Kyle Brooks
Research Guides & Subject Bibliographies
No abstract provided.
David Harris,
2019
Marshall University
David Harris, Kelli Johnson
Oral Histories
Kelli Johnson interviewing David Harris on January 4th, 2019, who is going to take Dr. Johnson on a little driving tour of Fairfield.
African American English And Urban Literature: Creating Culturally Caring Classrooms,
2019
Towson University
African American English And Urban Literature: Creating Culturally Caring Classrooms, Erin E. Campbell, Joseph J. Nicol
#CritEdPol: Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College
Language and literacy are a means of delivering care through consideration of students’ home culture; however, a cultural mismatch between the predominantly white, female educator population and the diverse urban student population is reflected in language and literacy instruction. Urban curricula often fail to incorporate culturally relevant literature, in part due to a dearth of texts that reflect student experiences. Dialectal differences between African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE) and a history of racism have attached a reformatory stigma to AAE and its speakers. The authors assert that language and literacy instruction that validates children’s lived experience …
Amos Wimbush Papers,
2019
Louisiana Tech University
Amos Wimbush Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Manuscript Finding Aids
Papers and memorabilia of Amos Wimbush and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, including 1918 photo postcard of Camp Robson, Little Rock, Arkansas and newspaper article about Mr. Wimbush.
Jet Magazine: Celebrating Black Female Beauty,
2019
Xavier University of Louisiana
Jet Magazine: Celebrating Black Female Beauty, Jazmyn Shepherd
XULAneXUS
Once referred to as, “the Negro bible” by famed actor and comedian Redd Foxx[1], Jet has continued to be a pioneer in representing Black Americans as beyond the stereotypes to which they are so often relegated. The magazine has not only provided accurate coverage throughout momentous Black historical movements such as the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, the Black is Beautiful movement of the late 1960s, and the Natural Hair Movement of the 2000s, but it has also catered to the daily interests of Black Americans, such as fashion and beauty, lifestyle advice, dating advice, politics, health …
Living Objects Essays: Prologue,
2019
University of Connecticut - Storrs
Living Objects Essays: Prologue, John Bell
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
Living Objects: African American Puppetry co-curator John Bell describes the team responsible for the Living Objects exhibition, festival, symposium, and online catalogue.
Embracing Complexity In Performing The Other,
2019
University of Connecticut
Embracing Complexity In Performing The Other, Valeska Maria Populoh
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
"Embracing Complexity in Performing the Other" is a personal essay by a white, Baltimore-based cultural organizer, puppeteer and educator, reflecting on three scenarios that have catalyzed her thinking about white people performing Black puppets. The author shares her own experience of navigating the complex, and at times highly combustible, issues about representation, appropriation and racial identity in the realm of puppetry, and concludes with a few questions to stimulate further dialogue in the puppetry community about these issues.
Race And Representation: Creating A Puppet Production For The Smithsonian Institution,
2019
University of Connecticut
Race And Representation: Creating A Puppet Production For The Smithsonian Institution, Brad Brewer
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
The Brewery Puppet Troupe was commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum’s Lemelson Center to undertake new creative challenge: a show featuring African American scientist Lewis Latimer, the nineteenth-century inventor instrumental in creating the electric light bulb. Brad Brewer was committed to showing how Latimer’s life was affected by America’s struggle with slavery and racial inequality, issues he considered equally important to Latimer's scientific achievements. Staff historians read and commented on all the drafts of the script, but the production still included comedic elements typical of a Brewery Troupe production. The project allowed the author to explore some of the hard realities …
An Email Interview With Alva Rogers,
2019
University of Connecticut
An Email Interview With Alva Rogers, Paulette Richards
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
Actor, writer, and puppeteer Alva Rogers recounts her long-standing interests in theater, and her early performances combining dolls with texts by Zora Neale Hurston and others. Her work as a performance artist led to her role as Eula in the film Daughters of the Dust. She then studied playwriting, musical theater, and history at Brown University, NYU, and Bard College respectively. Rogers’s influences include surrealist painters, magic realism, such writers as Adrienne Kennedy, Ralph Ellison, and Federico Garcia Lorca, and the Gullah/Geechee culture of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. She uses both dolls and puppets in …
Servance Dancers,
2019
University of Connecticut
Servance Dancers, Paulette Richards
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
How many African American folk artists have created performing objects outside the purview of formal theater? Master woodcarver George Servance is one such 20th-century artist who used his skills to counter minstrel stereotypes and present African Americans as elegant and accomplished entertainers.
Raceless Racism: Blackface Minstrelsy In American Puppetry,
2019
University of Connecticut
Raceless Racism: Blackface Minstrelsy In American Puppetry, Amber West
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
Blackface minstrelsy has long been recognized as one of the major elements of 19th and early 20th-century popular performance in the U.S., but its central role in U.S. puppetry has not been explored. West debunks the idea that puppets are “raceless”, examining the origins of blackface minstrelsy in American puppetry, including traditional Punch and Judy performances, William John Bullock’s 19th-century puppet minstrel shows, the creation of “realistic” Black puppets by white puppeteers in the early 20th century, and contemporary examples of exaggerated Black puppet characters, for example in a music video directed by Black artist Boots Riley. West points out …
Storytelling And Puppetry,
2019
University of Connecticut
Storytelling And Puppetry, Susan Fulcher
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
Librarian Susan Fulcher recounts the creation of a storytelling with puppets program she developed with puppeteer Dave Herzog, in which kids create their own puppet characters to be incorporated into existing stories such as Stone Soup.
“It’S Not Easy Bein’ Green”: Greenface And The Jazzy Frog Trope,
2019
University of Connecticut
“It’S Not Easy Bein’ Green”: Greenface And The Jazzy Frog Trope, Paulette Richards
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
One element of blackface minstrelsy was the representation of Black people as swamp characters, especially frogs. In her examination of the development of the “jazzy frog” as a transposition of greenface onto blackface, Richards traces the growth of the trope in popular film and cartoons of the early 20th century. She then considers Jim Henson’s creation of the popular puppet character Kermit as a variation on this trope, but with a different purpose: to represent Henson’s “vision of tolerance for difference and creative collaboration.” The “re-humanization” of the jazzy frog includes the 1967 hit song “I’m in Love with a …
Wear The Story Like A Jacket: Akbar Imhotep,
2019
University of Connecticut
Wear The Story Like A Jacket: Akbar Imhotep, Paulette Richards
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
This profile of Akbar Imhotep’s work as a puppeteer and storyteller in Atlanta in the late 20th century describes his connections to the Center for Puppetry Arts, the folk-art roots of his approach to puppetry, the unique puppet stage he made from old suitcases, and the process he uses to prepare for performances.
Black: :Body: :Gesture: From Puppetry To Performance & Design,
2019
University of Connecticut
Black: :Body: :Gesture: From Puppetry To Performance & Design, Gabrielle Civil, Kelly Walters
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
In this visual document, Gabrielle Civil and Kelly Walters distill and recreate key aspects of their live dialogue on African-American puppetry, black performance art, material and digital design. What are examples of African American living objects in the 21st century? What does it mean to animate objects when, as a people, we were once considered to be living objects ourselves? Drawing on their own practice, these artists engaged these questions, activated audience discussion, and transformed the results into a new source text for further activation.
Black And Blackface In The Performing Object: Bullock, Chessé, Paris, The Jubilee Singers, And The Burdens Of … Everything,
2019
University of Connecticut
Black And Blackface In The Performing Object: Bullock, Chessé, Paris, The Jubilee Singers, And The Burdens Of … Everything, Ben Fisler
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
The representation of Black identity through puppetry ranges from “grotesque exaggeration to near pictorial realism,” and engagement not only with racial stereotyping, but also the possibility of positive racial representation. Fisler details the extensive degree to which puppeteers in the early 20th century depended upon Black and blackface characters for their livelihood, and points out the complexities of such representations involving Black puppeteers of Federal Theater Project puppet companies, and the work of Creole puppet artist Ralph Chessé. Fisler argues that some white puppeteers, including Frank Paris, sought to portray such Black characters as Josephine Baker in a “potentially more …
Tar Baby: The Performance Of Object,
2019
University of Connecticut
Tar Baby: The Performance Of Object, Ra Malika Imhotep
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
This essay engages the figure of the “Tar Baby” as a guide through the theoretical terrain of Afro-Diasporic storytelling culture. Thinking about the role of gesture and voice in the repertoire of global Black performance, this presentation sets out to offer a nuanced Black feminist analysis of the sticky character and the impact of her diasporic flight. Calling in both theoretical work on Black performance and personal reflections on an engagement with the Tar Baby through storyteller and puppeteer Akbar Imhotep’s rendition of the story performed at the Wren’s Nest in Atlanta Georgia, the essay explores the ways Afro-Diasporic storytelling …
The Appropriation Of Blackness,
2019
University of Connecticut
The Appropriation Of Blackness, Nehprii Amenii
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
The continuing appropriation of Black culture in the U.S. is closely tied to the trauma and injustice of the African diaspora and the history of slavery. Black people, Amenii argues, need to re-appropriate themselves, through the “excavating and re-articulating of our intellectual heritage and knowledge systems.” Citing Ahmad Azzahir’s description of African modes of thinking as “based on spirituality, symbol, mythos, and harmonium,” she sees her own work as “creative anthropology” that draws on storytelling and image-making to create self-study. Her production Food for the Gods, “a multi-media performance installation created in response to the killings of Black Men by …
African Puppetry And Brazilian Mamulengo: Possible Links Between Symbolic And Material Representations,
2019
University of Connecticut
African Puppetry And Brazilian Mamulengo: Possible Links Between Symbolic And Material Representations, Izabela Brochado
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
Although Brazil’s popular Mamulengo hand-puppet tradition is often considered to have primarily European roots, Brochado argues that “the primary source of the Mamulengo lies with African slaves.” Citing sources including puppeteers and folklorists explaining the origins of Mamulengo in northeast Brazil, Brochado argues for the African roots of the form, citing the relation of Mamulengo performance to Afro-Brazilian cult rituals; the commonality of often-comic sexual content in Mamulengo and in Yoruba puppetry of Nigeria and Benin; as well as the similar mechanics of puppets from both traditions which display work activities. She concludes that “even if African puppets were not …
Mlk Celebration 2019 - Kneeling For Justice Then And Now: As You Choose Flyer,
2019
Western Michigan University
Mlk Celebration 2019 - Kneeling For Justice Then And Now: As You Choose Flyer, Western Michigan University
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Jan. 16 to Feb. 20, 2019.
