scholarly journals TRIBUTO A NINA SIMONE: arte, política, o corpo e a questão racial/sexual nos Estados Unidos da América em dois atos

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florisvaldo Paulo Ribeiro Junior ◽  
Maria Elizabeth Ribeiro Carneiro

Resumo O artigo é um extrato de duas leituras críticas realizadas sobre o filme What Happened, Miss Simone? de Liz Garbus, documentário produzido nos EUA em 2015, que explora a trajetória biográfica, a atuação e a sensibilidade artística, profissional, política, amorosa da cantora, pianista, ativista e compositora Nina Simone (EUA, 2015). Duas abordagens permitem acompanhar a construção de perspectivas analíticas do pesquisador e da pesquisadora que priorizam, por um viés, a conjuntura político-social, e por outro, a materialidade histórico-discursiva, buscando recompor um outro conjunto de elementos constitutivos do documentário. A reflexão histórica/historiográfica resulta no exercício de recepção da obra em algumas de suas possibilidades interpretativas. As comunicações foram objeto de debate realizado na mesa-redonda do Projeto Educação e Cinema, promovida pelo PPGE/FACED, na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, em 16 de junho de 2016. Palavras-chave: Nina Simone. Arte. Corpo. Política. Raça. Sexo-Gênero. EUA. TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE: art, politics, the body and the racial / sexual issue in the United States of America in two actsAbstract This article is an extract of two critical reviews on the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? (EUA, 2015), by Liz Garbus. Life, art, profession, love, a biography of Nina Simone was builded with video and film fragments, interviews, speeches, concerts, materials by and about that woman, activist, and the fabulous composer, piano player and singer. Different views elaborated by two historians exhibit approaches to that source: in one hand, a historical-political analysis, in the other hand, a discourse analysis based on gender studies and the body theory. Both historical and historiographical approaches together seek to enlarge possibilities for the work of thought, interpretation and reception. The papers were extracts of a debate within Education and Movie Project, promoted by PPGE/FACED, at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in June 16, 2016. Keywords: Nina Simone. Art. Body. Politics. Race. Sex-Gender. USA. 

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Laith Mzahim Khudair Kazem

The armed violence of many radical Islamic movements is one of the most important means to achieve the goals and objectives of these movements. These movements have legitimized and legitimized these violent practices and constructed justification ideologies in order to justify their use for them both at home against governments or against the other Religiously, intellectually and even culturally, or abroad against countries that call them the term "unbelievers", especially the United States of America.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eseosa Obadiaru ◽  
Alex Omankhanlen ◽  
Barnabas Obasaju ◽  
Henry Inegbedion

Stock markets over the world have become more interconnected due to activities of foreign investors in search for alternative financial assets and markets to invest in order to diversify their portfolio. Stock market indices and index returns have been known to reflect linkages between different markets. This study assesses the extent of correlation of stock market index returns in West Africa and those of the United States of America (US) and United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2016. The correlation between the index returns for the entire sample period and yearly samples were considered for Nigeria, Ghana, the BRVM, the USA and the UK. The indices selected for the five countries considered are the Nigerian All-Share Index, Ghanaian Composite Index, the BRVM Composite Index, the Financial Times 100 Index and the Standards and Poor’s 500 Index. Daily index returns data were used for the study and analyzed using correlation and multiple regression analysis. Findings revealed that the returns of the pairs of the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) exhibited stronger positive correlation with each other than the other market pairs in the study both in the entire sample period and the yearly sub-period analysis. The correlations between the other market pairs were either positively or negatively weak or very weak indicating more diversification opportunities.


Author(s):  
Emma Macleod

This chapter examines British radical attitudes towards America during the 1790s by taking up the case of William Winterbotham, a Plymouth Baptist preacher who was jailed in Newgate prison for four years (1793–1797) for allegedly seditious content in two sermons he preached in November 1792. Winterbotham's most ambitious work was An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, published in four volumes in 1795. It demonstrates the fascination that America held for British radicals beyond Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price. Among his many concerns, Winterbotham was highly critical of the institution of chattel slavery. The chapter explores Winterbotham's political analysis of the new republic and shows that his imprisonment for seditious libel was bracketed by contemporaries with the more conspicuous 'martyrdom' of five men sentenced to transportation by the Scottish High Court of Justiciary.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1097184X1987278
Author(s):  
Adam Baird

Belize has one of the highest homicide rates in the world; however, the gangs at the heart of this violence have rarely been studied. Using a masculinities lens and original empirical data, this article explores how Blood and Crip “gang transnationalism” from the United States of America flourished in Belize City. Gang transnationalism is understood as a “transnational masculinity” that makes cultural connections between local settings of urban exclusion. On one hand, social terrains in Belize City generated masculine vulnerabilities to the foreign gang as an identity package with the power to reconfigure positions of subordination; on the other, the establishment of male gang practices with a distinct hegemonic shape, galvanized violence and a patriarchy of the streets in already marginalized communities. This article adds a new body of work on gangs in Belize, and gang transnationalism, whilst contributing to theoretical discussions around the global to local dynamics of hegemonic masculinities discussed by Connell and Messerschmidt (2005) and Messerschmidt (2018).


1927 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-480
Author(s):  
Arthur Burchard

The United States of America, having refused to ratify the peace treaty negotiated at Paris in 1919 between the Allied and Associated Powers, on the one hand, and Germany on the other hand, commonly called the Treaty of Versailles, has, nevertheless, reserved to itself all the rights arising from the said treaty in the separate treaty of peace which was concluded between the United States of America and Germany on August 25, 1921, and ratified at Berlin on November 11, 1921, the treaty having been promulgated by the President of the United States on November 14, 1921. The clause containing the said reservation of rights reads thatGermany undertakes to accord to the United States and the United States shall have and fully enjoy all the rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages specified in the Joint Resolution of Congress of the United States of July 2, 1921, including all the rights and advantages stipulated for the benefit of the United States in the Treaty of Versailles, notwithstanding the fact that such treaty has not been ratified by the United States, [and] the rights and advantages stipulated …are those defined in Part X…


2020 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Alberto Pena Rodríguez ◽  
Maria Érica de Oliveira Lima

Resumen: El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es aproximarse a la significación histórica de la prensa inmigrante portuguesa en los Estados Unidos de América, prestando especial atención a aquellos elementos de carácter narrativo que han contribuído a crear un discurso simbólico y a dar un sentido trascendente y etnocéntrico a la presencia portuguesa en Norteamérica. Mediante una aproximación cuantitativa y cualitativa que emplea técnicas de análisis del discurso, el artículo intenta ofrecer una radiografía general sobre los aspectos más paradigmáticos de la narrrativa periodística de este tipo de prensa relacionados con el imaginario cultural lusófono en Estados Unidos.Abstract: The main objective of this work is to approach the historical significance of the Portuguese immigrant press in the United States of America, paying special attention to those elements of a narrative nature that have contributed to create a symbolic discourse and to give a transcendental and ethnocentric meaning to the Portuguese presence in North America. Through a quantitative and qualitative approach that uses techniques of discourse analysis, the article intends to offer a general radiography on the most paradigmatic aspects of the journalistic narrative of this type of press related to the Portuguese-American cultural imaginary in the United States.


Author(s):  
Oluwapelumi Odunayo Osadola ◽  
Phebe Oluwatoni Ojo

Executive Orders are not invoked as a matter of course by the President or Governors heading the Executive Cabinet. These orders are exercisable when heads of the executive branch of government see for their needfulness and for smooth running of their governmental programmes or policies. Every Executive order must carry the force of law for it to be valid or to be duly recognised by the other branches of government which if not, the latter may question its constitutionality. The advantages of executive orders are very innumerable to mention however it has been said that the use of executive orders have assaulted the concept of separation of powers which is embedded in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended)as adopted from the United States of America. This paper focuses on the meaning and historical antecedent of executive orders in Nigeria, legal regime or statutory provisions of executive orders in Nigeria, executive orders versus doctrine of separation of power, challenges of executive orders under the 1999 constitution (as amended), praxis of executive orders under the Nigeria fourth republic and lastly is the conclusion and recommendations made thereto. To achieve these, the writers will make use of relevant materials at their disposal.


1948 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
José de Onís

In the Rich Collection of the New York Public Library there is a manuscript, Apuntes ligeros sobre los Estados Unidos de la América Septentrional, in which a Spanish diplomat and author, Valentín de Foronda, gives his impressions about the United States of America.We cannot say with certainty what the history of this manuscript is, but from the few scattered facts which we have we can come to certain conclusions. At the time when it was written, in 1804, there must have been more than one copy. The perfection of the manuscript and the fact that ft is not in Foronda’s handwriting, tends to indicate that it was recopied several times. It is probable that there were at least three sets of copies. The original he must have kept for himself. One, in all likelihood was given to his immediate superior, who at that time was Casa Irujo. A third set might have been sent to the Spanish Minister of State. It is my belief that the manuscript that has come down to us is the one he gave to the Ambassador Casa Irujo. The reason on which I base this, is that twenty years later, long after Foronda and Casa Irujo had died, Mrs. Casa Irujo became a personal friend of Obadiah Rich, the bibliographer, and used to be a frequent guest at his house in Madrid. Rich obtained the manuscript about this time and it is very probable that he got it from her. Where the other hypothetical copies are would be difficult to say. The set sent to the Spanish Minister of State must be buried in some Spanish archive. The other one which he kept for himself was more than likely confiscated by the Spanish authorities, along with his other papers, and was probably destroyed during Foronda’s trial of 1814.


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