Singing Prettily: Lena Horne in Hollywood

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Richard Dyer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

Lena Horne was the first African-American woman to be signed to a contract to a major Hollywood studio, who did however not know what to do with her. Her >colour< – in her voice as well as her looks – meant that she did not fit into the racial hierarchies of the day and she was largely confined oppressively to the margins. However, she was also able to some degree, and in collaboration with other African-American figures in Hollywood, to use this to give a glimpse of African-American modernism in Hollywood cinema. This is thus a case study of cultural production as struggle.

scholarly journals Mapping a New Humanism in the 1940s: Thelma Johnson Streat between Dance and Painting

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Abbe Schriber
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
Figure Drawing

Thelma Johnson Streat is perhaps best known as the first African American woman to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. However, in the 1940s–1950s she inhabited multiple coinciding roles: painter, performer, choreographer, cultural ethnographer, and folklore collector. As part of this expansive practice, her canvases display a peculiar movement and animacy while her dances transmit the restraint of the two-dimensional figure. Drawing from black feminist theoretical redefinitions of the human, this paper argues that Streat’s exploration of muralism, African American spirituals, Native Northwest Coast cultural production, and Yaqui Mexican-Indigenous folk music established a diasporic mapping forged through the coxtension of gesture and brushstroke. This transmedial work disorients colonial cartographies which were the products of displacement, conquest, and dispossession, aiding notions of a new humanism at mid-century.

National Monuments and the Residue of History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Levi Barnard
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
Martin Luther King

This chapter explores the tension between the association of the Lincoln Memorial with the civil rights movement and the continued prevalence—during and after the movement itself—of the rhetoric of imperial ruination in African American political discourse and cultural production. The chapter considers this rhetoric in the writings of Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Martin Luther King Jr., before turning to Kara Walker’s art installation A Subtlety. Walker’s sculpture of an African American woman, molded out of refined white sugar in the shape of an Egyptian sphinx, was arguably the most prominent public monument ever constructed to enslaved people in America; but it also aligned with a long tradition through which African American writers and artists have refigured Thomas Jefferson’s exceptional “empire for liberty” as merely another iteration of what Henry Highland Garnet called the “empire of slavery,” inexorably devolving into an “empire of ruin.”

Merle’s travel: A Quest For Completeness In Paule Marshall’s The chosen place, the timeless people.

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Dr. K. Radah ◽  
G. Gayathri
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Context ◽  
African American Women ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
True Self ◽  
American Women ◽  
Human Need

African American women have been silenced and kept ignorant by the dominant culture and it is the human need to create and maintain a true self in a social context. However, such an endeavor becomes an ordeal for those who are doubly oppressed, for those who are muted and mutilated physically and psychically through the diabolic crossfire of caste/race, sex and colonialism. This paper focuses on, an African American Woman, throughout her journey of life, seeking completeness in terms of family, society and community level.

scholarly journals Peripheral Retinal Neovascularization with Vitreous Hemorrhage in HIV Retinopathy

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Jiramongkolchai ◽  
Tin Yan Alvin Liu ◽  
J. Fernando Arevalo
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Laser Photocoagulation ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Vitreous Hemorrhage ◽  
Retinal Ischemia ◽  
Retinal Neovascularization ◽  
Clinical Spectrum

We report a case of peripheral retinal neovascularization and vitreous hemorrhage in the setting of HIV retinopathy that can serve to extend the clinical spectrum of this condition. A 53-year-old African-American woman with AIDS was referred for decreased vision in the left eye and was found to have peripheral retinal neovascularization and vitreous hemorrhage. She had a workup that was negative for etiologies of retinal ischemia. Peripheral laser photocoagulation was used to treat areas of nonperfusion. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of peripheral retinal neovascularization and vitreous hemorrhage in the setting of HIV retinopathy, and it can serve to extend the clinical spectrum of this condition.

scholarly journals A Case of a Laryngeal MALT Lymphoma in a Patient with a History of Gastric MALT

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Ashamalla ◽  
Marita S. Teng ◽  
Joshua Brody ◽  
Elizabeth Demicco ◽  
Rahul Parikh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Malt Lymphoma ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Gastric Malt Lymphoma ◽  
Rare Presentation ◽  
Original Diagnosis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Previously Treated

We are reporting a case of a 62-year-old African American woman with a history of gastric MALT lymphoma successfully treated with radiation who presented with a laryngeal MALT lymphoma 4 years after her original diagnosis. She received definitive radiation with a complete response. The case presented is unique for the rare presentation of a MALT lymphoma in the larynx, especially in light of the patient’s previously treated gastric MALT lymphoma years ago.

Increasing Nutritional Adherence in an African American Woman With Type 2 Diabetes

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-386
Author(s):  
Mary E. Steers ◽  
Brenna N. Renn ◽  
Leilani Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman
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