November 2010
12 posts
“Email is conversation, and it may be replacing the sweet and endless talking we...”
– Roger Angell’s foreword to Strunk and White’s, The Elements of Style (4th edition)
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The Representation of Josephine Baker in the Works... →
via africultures:
Grande dame de la constellation Noire, depuis les années 1920 Joséphine Baker est représentée, d’abord au centre des affiches de la Revue Nègre, de dessins désormais célèbres. De nombreux artistes ce sont appropriés sa silhouette et son histoire. Nous avons souhaité analyser les œuvres de Faith Ringgold, artiste majeure de l’art Africain Américain, d’Hassan...
Brian Purnell, "What Does a Depression Look Like?"
Brian Purnell, Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, on the economy, U.S. history and the politics of poverty:
What does a Depression look like? This is what a Depression looks like. The woman who stood up at a town hall meeting and said she was tired of defending President Obama’s administration, especially its economic policies, joined the jobless. The sad reality is...
