scholarly journals Queer Harlem, Queer Tashkent: Langston Hughes's “Boy Dancers of Uzbekistan”

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-646
Author(s):  
Jennifer Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Male Dancers ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

In Langston Hughes's 1934 essay “Boy Dancers of Uzbekistan,” (published inTravelmagazine), the author writes mournfully about the Soviet reforms that put an end to the practice of effeminized male dancers,bachi, performing in the teahouses of Central Asia for exclusively male audiences; in doing so, Hughes expresses an enthusiasm for the queer contours of thebachitradition. This article connects that enthusiasm with Hughes's earlier involvement in cultural efforts aimed at increasing queer visibility within the black community during the Harlem Renaissance. By situating “Boy Dancers” in this context, the underexplored role of the Russian Revolution in fostering queer solidarity among global communities of color is highlighted.

scholarly journals Engineering Solutions to COVID-19 and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda A. Barabino
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
Design Skills

AbstractThe role of engineers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the elimination of health disparities, while not always visible, has important implications for the attainment of impactful solutions. The design skills, systems approach, and innovative mindset that engineers bring all have the potential to combat crises in novel and impactful ways. When a disparities lens is applied, a lens that views gaps in access, resources, and care, the engineering solutions are bound to be more robust and equitable. The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Black community and other communities of color is linked to inequities in health rooted in a centuries long structural racism. Engineers working collaboratively with physicians and healthcare providers are poised to close equity gaps and strengthen the collective response to COVID-19 and future pandemics.

scholarly journals Harlem Renaissance Literary Productions: Context, Role, Philosophy and Objective In “The Negro’s Tragedy”

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-203
Author(s):  
Beugre Zouankouan Stéphane
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Poetic Creation ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

This paper aims to show and analyze how through “an outstanding poetic creation”, Claude McKay describes clearly the context, role, philosophy and objective of the Harlem Renaissance literary productions while describing his own role and vocation as an African American writer. Indeed by describing his own role as a pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance Movement, “this assertive poem” is actually a précis and paradigm of the motives and chart gathering all those black pioneer writers engaged in this literary movement. This paper provides, through the hermeneutic study of this symptomatic sonnet about the Negro’s tragedy; an analysis of the context in which the Harlem Renaissance literary productions had been produced, the role of those literary productions, the main philosophy surrounding the literary productions of this Black Movement and finally the objective targeted by those literary productions. The hermeneutic approach is sustained by the socio-criticism, African American criticisms and stylistics theories to better characterize the semantic and social scope of this poem.  

A Primitivism of the Senses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Cook
Keyword(s):  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Strong Concern ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

This chapter examines the aesthetically and conceptually central role of music in the film work of Len Lye. Lye’s first film, Tusalava, exhibits a strong concern with notions of the “primitive”, both visually and musically. While Lye abandoned that film’s African and South Pacific influences in his work of the 1930s, his use of jazz is here understood to continue those same concerns. This is considered both in his direct relationship with the Harlem Renaissance and in that movement’s dissemination internationally, as well as with an underlying conceptualisation of primitive perception. His work is in many ways experimental, while also being entwined with traditions normally excluded or ignored when studying “experimental film”. This chapter’s findings bring into question the very boundaries and definitions of that category.

ADAPTATION OF LABOUR MIGRANTS FROM CENTRAL ASIA IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-144
Author(s):  
Vadim E. Vasilev ◽  
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Julia I. Eremenkova ◽  
Alina N. Ermokhina ◽  
Alexander A. Nikiforov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Digital Technology
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