“Lord of a Hawaiian Island”

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-427
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Syrett
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
White Male ◽  
Hawaiian Island ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Male Couple ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
The 1960S

This case study of a white male couple (Robert and John Gregg Allerton) on Kaua‘i from the 1930s through the 1960s investigates how their colonization of the island has tended to be erased in accounts that highlight both the supposed acceptance of their homosexuality by the island’s residents and, in turn, the couple’s generous philanthropy. Set against this narrative of what Mary Louise Pratt has called “anti-conquest,” I demonstrate that the Allertons’ lives on Kaua‘i were actually more in keeping with the history of western imperialism than most accounts acknowledge, emphasizing also their own innovative strategies toward making the island their own. The article examines both the specifics of the Allertons’ colonizing of Kaua‘i and, more importantly, how imperialism can be misremembered when the colonizers were queer, connecting that narrative obfuscation to myths about acceptance of gay men in Hawai‘i that live on today.

Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellowship Program—Outreach to Inreach—A Generation of Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Renee Brummell Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Art Museum ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Fellowship Program ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Relationships

This article chronicles the twenty-six-year history of the Saint Louis Art Museum Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellowship, which was created to increase the number of professional staff from underrepresented backgrounds working in museums. It provides an overview of early supporters/founders of the program and details the trajectory of a generation of Bearden Fellows, most of whom are now professionally engaged in museums and arts-related careers. This case study also examines the benefits of staff diversity to the inclusive culture sought by museums as they cultivate new audiences and search for innovative strategies to maintain their relevance and community relationships. It calls upon museums to view diversity as an evolutionary conversation by examining the motivations and objectives that constitute the contemporary “diversity and inclusion” discourse.

FROM LONG-TERM PATTERNS OF SEASONAL HUNGER TO CHANGING EXPERIENCES OF EVERYDAY POVERTY: NORTHEASTERN GHANA C. 1930–2000

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÉRÔME DESTOMBES
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
West African ◽  
Anthropometric Data ◽  
Poor Diet ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Way

This article is a West African case-study of the nutritional history of everyday poverty. It draws on unusually rich statistical evidence collected in northeastern Ghana. In the 1930s, pioneer colonial surveys revealed that seasonal poor diet was pervasive, by contrast with undernourishment. They pave the way for constructing a new set of anthropometric data in Nangodi, a savanna polity where John Hunter completed a classic study of seasonal hunger in the 1960s. A re-survey of the same sections and lineages c. 2000, during a full agricultural cycle, shows a significant improvement in nutritional statuses, notably for women.

scholarly journals A History of Marginalization - Africville: a Canadian Example of Forced Migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pamela Vincer
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Black People ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
The People ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forced Resettlement ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Colonial Government

The people of Africville, Nova Scotia were removed from their homes and had their community razed in the 1960s during an era of urban renewal. Africville, Nova Scotia will be explored as an example of forced resettlement in Canada. Specifically, this case study will display the extreme racism Black people in Nova Scotia have endured upon settlement and onward. This paper will trace their migration, while highlighting the exclusion from the dominant society – by the colonial government of Nova Scotia, through lack of access to quality land, hence denial of their livelihoods. The racialization of space and the dominance of whiteness theories will be applied to the case of Africville and Blacks in Nova Scotia. The migration of Black people to Nova Scotia is unique, in that they arrived in Canada during the same time as the early European settlers, yet are still treated as the Other.

“Deplorable Exegesis”: Dick Gregory's Irreverent Scriptural Authority in the 1960s and 1970s

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-236
Author(s):  
Vaughn A. Booker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
Religious Liberalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Social Teachings

ABSTRACTThis article examines comedian Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory's comical articulation of religious belief and belonging through his speeches and religious writings during the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that, during his most visible public presence as an activist and comedic entertainer, Gregory bore an irreverent scriptural authority for his readers and comedy audiences who sought a prominent, public affirmation of their suspicion and criticism of religious authorities and conventional religious teachings. This suspicion would allow them to grapple with the oppressive presence of religion in the long history of Western colonialism, in the U.S. context of slavery, and in the violence and segregation of Jim Crow America. Following this religious suspicion, however, Gregory's consistent goal was to implement just social teachings stemming from socially and theologically progressive readings of the Hebrew Bible and of the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels. Gregory's irreverence modeled, and reflected, the maintenance of belief in both the divine and in the justness of remaking an oppressive, violent, unequal world through nonviolent activism in accordance with his understanding of the teachings of the King James scriptures that he read throughout his life. This study of comedy uses one African American male's production of irreverent, authoritative religious rhetoric to display a noteworthy mode of mid-century African American religious liberalism. It is also a case study highlighting the complexity of religious belief and affiliation. Despite acknowledged ambivalences about his commitments to religion, Gregory also modeled ways for audiences to reframe religious commitments to produce social change.

Book Reviews: Die Reichsbahn und die Juden, 1933–1939. Antisemitismus bei der Eisenbahn in der Vorkriegszeit [The German Railways and the Jews, 1933–1939. Antisemitism on the Railways in the Pre-War Period], Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850, the Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc, Quest for Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing 1868–1903, Mobility, Space and Culture, India's Railway History: A Research Handbook (Handbook of Oriental Studies; Section 2, South Asia), Land Based Air Power or Aircraft Carriers? A Case Study of the British Debate about Maritime Air Power in the 1960s, Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England, Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929, the World's Key Industry: History and Economics of International Shipping, Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity, Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, Swissair Souvenirs, British Aviation Posters: Art, Design, and Flight, Re-Inventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800–1918, Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England, Travels in the Valleys, Railway, the Cultural Life of the Automobile, Die Geschichte der Verkehrsplanung Berlins [The History of Transport Planning in Berlin]

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Marie-Noëlle Polino ◽  
Brian Bonhomme ◽  
Andy Bruno ◽  
Peter Cox ◽  
Sasha Disko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Air Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bicycle Racing ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Railway History ◽  
Oriental Studies

scholarly journals Listening to the Past: History, Psychiatry, and Anxiety

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 373-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Tone
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Past History ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Biological Psychiatry ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Shed Light

This article explores the history of psychiatry and the rise of biological psychiatry and suggests ways in which the study of history can shed light on current psychiatric practice and debate. Focusing on anxiolytics (meprobomate in the 1950s and benzodiazepines in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s) as a case study in the development of psychopharmacology, it shows how social and political factors converged to popularize and later stigmatize outpatient treatments for anxiety. The importance of social context in the creation of new therapeutic paradigms in modern psychiatry suggests the need to take into account a broad range of historical variables to understand how modern psychopharmacology has emerged and how particular treatments for disorders have been developed, diffused, and assessed.

“There Is Nothing Wrong about Being Money Grubbing!” Milton Friedman’s Provocative “Capitalism and the Jews” in Context, 1972–88

2021 ◽  
pp. 313-345
Author(s):  
Nicolas Vallois ◽  
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Scholarly Contribution ◽  
The 1960S

In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled “Capitalism and the Jews.” The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Friedman’s public interventions on the theme of capitalism and the Jews from the 1960s to the 1980s. We take a different perspectives from Jeff Lipkes’s recent paper on the topic, published in this journal. While Lipkes examines the internal content of Friedman’s arguments and their historical rectitude, we argue that “Capitalism and the Jews” shall not be read as a scholarly contribution to Jewish economic history. Flirting with stereotypes, Friedman was not looking to be theoretically sound and correct, but to persuade his audiences of the virtues of the free market. We therefore argue that “Capitalism and the Jews” has to be read within the surrounding political and polemical context of its writing and publication. Our article contributes to recent scholarship on the history of the complex relationships between conservatism and free-market ideas. It also provides a case study in the history of economic thought on discrimination and minorities.

scholarly journals A JOURNEY OF THE PEOPLE OF BETHANY MARKED BY DISPOSSESSION, STRUGGLE FOR RETURN OF LAND AND CONTINUED IMPOVERISHMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LAND REFORM THAT HAS NOT YET REDUCED POVERTY

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
O Buffel
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran

This article investigates the history of the farm Bethany in the Free State (a province of South Africa), which was the first mission station of the Berlin Mission Society. It traces its history from the time when Adam Kok II allocated the farm to the Mission Society for the purpose of spreading the gospel to the indigenous people, and to its dispossession through the forced removals of 1939 and later in the 1960s. It argues that the history of the community is a journey from a community that was economically sustainable before the forced removal, to a journey of impoverishment caused by dispossession. After successful restitution of the farm in 1998, the community continues to be impoverished. The article argues for a restitution process that reduces and eliminates poverty and it challenges the Department of Land Affairs to partner with communities that have returned to their ancestral lands. In this partnership the weak and inadequate post-settlement support must be reviewed and improved in view of ensuring that livelihoods are enhanced and poverty reduced, if not eliminated. The article also challenges the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which still owns part of the farm through its Property Management Committee, to equally partner with the community members of whom the majority are members of the Lutheran Church.

scholarly journals A History of Marginalization - Africville: a Canadian Example of Forced Migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pamela Vincer
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Black People ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
The People ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forced Resettlement ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Colonial Government

The people of Africville, Nova Scotia were removed from their homes and had their community razed in the 1960s during an era of urban renewal. Africville, Nova Scotia will be explored as an example of forced resettlement in Canada. Specifically, this case study will display the extreme racism Black people in Nova Scotia have endured upon settlement and onward. This paper will trace their migration, while highlighting the exclusion from the dominant society – by the colonial government of Nova Scotia, through lack of access to quality land, hence denial of their livelihoods. The racialization of space and the dominance of whiteness theories will be applied to the case of Africville and Blacks in Nova Scotia. The migration of Black people to Nova Scotia is unique, in that they arrived in Canada during the same time as the early European settlers, yet are still treated as the Other.

Race and the Rise of a Mass Visual Culture: The Case of David Hunter Strother’s Virginia Illustrated

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-479
Author(s):  
Christopher Lukasik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
White Male ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Media History ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract The publication of David Hunter Strother’s Virginia Illustrated under the pseudonym Porte Crayon in Harper’s Monthly (1854–56) provides a compelling case study through which to consider the role of race in the development of a US mass visual culture. The media combinations found within and the reception history of Virginia Illustrated demonstrate the importance of racialized viewing to the early success of Harper’s Monthly at a critical moment in media history. To be sure, Virginia Illustrated circulated racist stereotypes to be mass consumed, but the image/text operations of Strother’s literary sketches and illustrations also extended the privileges and pleasures inherent in the performance of the white male gaze to the expanding readership of Harper’s Monthly despite the differences in region, gender, and class of that audience. The case study of Virginia Illustrated challenges us to revisit the oddly marginalized relationship of nineteenth-century illustration to literary, art, and media history and invites us to situate nineteenth-century US literature into the wider media landscape of which it was undoubtedly a part.

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