Reviews: Susan Grogan, Flora Tristan: Life Stories, London and New York, Routledge, 1998; viii + 280 pp.; 0415049628, $75 Stéphane Michaud, ed., Flora Tristan, George Sand, Pauline Roland: Les Femmes et l'invention d'une nouvelle morale, 1830—1848, Paris, Créaphis, 1994; 109 pp.; 2907150502, 125 FF

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-284
Author(s):  
Karen Offen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
George Sand ◽  
Flora Tristan

Sathima Bea Benjamin

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Muller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Career Development ◽  
York City ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Singing Voice ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores the life and career of Sathima Bea Benjamin, who grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, during the transition to apartheid in the 1940s. Taking melodies she heard on her grandmother's radio, Sathima developed her own jazz singing voice, weaving in her own compositions. With a life embedded in an awareness of race and gender, she left for Europe in 1962. Her migratory lifestyle took her through tours in Europe, supporting her husband musician and caring for her daughters, to her own career development in New York City as a jazz singer with her own trio—where she continues to record, create, and perform. Sathima's vocality and life-stories reveal risks, freedoms, and creative processes as she creates a counternarrative to the discourses of masculinity in jazz.

scholarly journals Digital Stories as a Creative Assignment for Studying World Religions

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 644
Author(s):  
Charles S. Chesnavage
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
The Status ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Education Courses

The incorporation of creative assignments in the form of digital stories and artistic assignments in undergraduate and graduate World Religions courses has resulted in positive feedback from the students, and these courses were considered the favorite of the semester. They have given students, many of which identify as “spiritual but not religious”, or “non-practicing”, an opportunity to connect themes from various world religions to their own life stories, implicitly or explicitly. The purpose of this article is to encourage educators in both a secondary and a college/university/seminary setting to consider digital stories as a creative assignment that deepens their understanding of world religions within the context of a World Religions course, or other religion and religious education courses. This article will present the institutional support provided by Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, New York) and the context for the World Religions class in which the digital stories are assigned. It will be followed by the process of making a digital story, the directions given to the students, the different platforms that students can choose to make the digital stories, and examples of digital stories created by the students. The paper will conclude with a summary of comments made by the students about the assignment and connections with additional articles on the benefits of digital stories to increase empathy and replace the dominant stories that cause oppression and injustice, like racism and white supremacy, with stories that offer resistance and counter the status quo of oppression and injustice.

scholarly journals Gender and Ethnicity: Life Stories of Jewish-American Immigrant Women in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Anca-Luminiţa Iancu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts

Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, immigrants left oral and written testimonies of their experience in the United States, many of them housed in various ethnic-American archives or published by ethnic historical societies. In 1942, the Yiddish Scientific Institute in New York City encouraged Jewish-American immigrants to share their life stories as part of a written essay contest. In 2006, several of these autobiographical accounts were translated and published by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer in a volume entitled My Future Is in America. Thus, this essay examines the autobiographies of two Jewish-American immigrant women, Minnie Goldstein and Rose Schoenfeld, with a view to comparing how their gendered identity (as women and as members of their families) has impacted their choices and lives in their home countries and in the United States in the first part of the twentieth century.

Flora tristan: life stories

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-632
Author(s):  
Felicia Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Flora Tristan
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