Legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-260
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
York City ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
As If

In the post–La Guardia era, New York City women politicians experienced some successes but also many frustrations. The “glass ceiling” prevailed: many seemed on their way to higher and more prominent posts, only to be thwarted in the end. Although their quest for power in the early postsuffrage era remained unfulfilled, their story was not all disappointment. Contrary to the stereotypes about woman suffrage—that too few women voted to make a difference, that women voted just as their husbands did, or that women failed to win political office (as if it was their fault)—New York women voters gradually increased their numbers, voted independently from men, and often chose sides with women’s policy agendas in mind. Despite enduring biases against them, hundreds entered partisan political arenas, drawing strength, example, and tactics from their suffrage-era networks and forming strategic coalitions across racial, class, and ideological lines to achieve specific goals.

A Conversation and Two Epilogues

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Malloy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Real Time ◽  
York City ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Main Street ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

When Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz arrived in Telluride for Tele-Community in the summer of 1993, it seemed as if the whole town joined them on Main Street, as using slow scan video they connected townspeople and visiting digerati with artists, universities, and cultural centers around the world. Their Electronic Café had already presented New York City pedestrians with display windows of people waving and talking real time from Los Angeles (...

Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 398-402
Author(s):  
Jed Rasula
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Park Avenue ◽  
Olympic Village ◽  
As If

On 17 December 2016, I had the good fortune to see a video installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Written, directed, and produced by Julian Rosefeldt, largely in and around Berlin, Manifesto staged thirteen scenarios—simultaneously looped on massive screens in the cavernous armory—in which extracts from nearly seventy avant-garde manifestos were performed by Cate Blanchett, featured in thirteen strikingly different roles. Her virtuosity redeployed even the most emphatic manifesto rhetoric into monologues that seem spontaneously uttered in a series of vivid locales, ranging from a cemetery to a fertilizer factory, a film studio, a drab apartment block, a former Olympic village, a puppet workshop, a recycling facility, and more. Blanchett, in effect, perpetuates the spirit of Fernando Pessoa, as if she were embodying heteronyms, not playing roles. ...

George Oppen in Exile: Mexico and Maritain (For Linda Oppen)

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER NICHOLLS
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Similar Case ◽  
Discrete Series ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
George Oppen ◽  
Political Exile ◽  
As If

In 1960, George Oppen and his wife Mary settled in New York City after a period of nine years of political exile in Mexico. Oppen was the author of a slim volume of poems entitled Discrete Series, published back in 1934 with a then highly desirable preface by Ezra Pound. Few of Oppen's contemporaries, however, would remember him now as a poet, and back in New York he was having to reckon with what he would term in a later interview “my rejection of poetry for twenty or twenty-five years.”. For only at the end of the fifties, at the very end of the period spent in Mexico, had Oppen begun to write again. Success would come to him later in the decade, with the award of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, but, for the time being, as Oppen observed of the rather similar case of Basil Bunting, he felt as if he had returned to poetry “as from the dead.”

Johann Most and the German Anarchists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Goyens
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The City ◽  
As If

This essay tells the story of the first instance of a revolutionary anarchist movement in New York City, and the role of radical immigrant Johann Most in shaping and dividing the movement. This urban, immigrant movement pioneers several features that will be part of various subsequent movements and expressions of anarchism in the city. For example, Germans grounded their community in beerhalls and other meeting places in specific neighborhoods. They built cultural and recreational spaces and groups as if to live anarchism now, while advocating for it in public. The German anarchists also maintained an international profile through periodicals, and experienced the downside of ethnic insularity. Most added an ideological element when he advocated social revolution, propaganda by deed, and arming the working classes. The image of the anarchist bomb thrower was born and lingers to this day in the minds of mainstream observers.

Common Sense: New York City Working Women and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Orleck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
York City ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Class Project ◽  
The Common ◽  
Project Tracing ◽  
The U.S

By telling the story of working women’s involvement in the campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S., this chapter shatters the conventional notion that the women’s suffrage movement was merely a middle-class project. Tracing how the “Common Sense of working women” was cast in opposition to the “sentimentality of Senators,” this chapter offers a fresh interpretation of suffrage history.

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