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Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2019
Aida Overton Walker, a premier vaudeville entertainer, engaged in a calculated, career-long process to restructure and re-present how African Americans, particularly black women in popular theater, were viewed and perceived in American society. Through a
Veronica Jackson
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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From Oríkì to Elinga: Black-Brazilian principles of acting and staging

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2022
The purpose of this article is to present reflections that seek to system Black- Brazilian principles of dramatic performance and staging. The studies presented aim to demonstrate the need for theoretical-practical thinking in the performing arts ...
Lau Pereira dos Santos
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Black Labor and the Deep South in Hurston’s The Great Day and Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige

Current Musicology, 2017
Among the musical representations of Deep South African American life circulating in the 1930s and early 1940s, Ellington’s extended composition Black, Brown, and Beige and Zora Neale Hurston’s staged revue The Great Day stand out for their shared ...
Brendan Kibbee
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Black Popular Culture and Subalternity: an analysis of the Zumbi spectacle by João das Neves

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2019
This article comments on the analysis of the play Zumbi (2012) (Zombies) by João das Neves, a production inspired in Arena conta Zumbi (1965) by Boal and Guarnieri, presenting the problems related to contemporaneous matters in the perspective of the ...
Carina Maria Guimarães Moreira (Universidade Federal de São João del-Re i – UFSJ, São João del-Rei/MG, Brazil)
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Ed Bullins? Theater: Mirroring the Black Audience

, 1999
[ES] Este art?culo muestra c?mo el dramaturgo afroamericano Ed Bullins, en lugar de dirigir su animadversi?n hacia un p?blico blanco, coloca un espejo frente al p?blico negro con la intenci?n de mostrarles la violencia y auto-destrucci?n que est?n ejerciendo contra ellos mismos. Como resultado, la comunidad negra ocupa un lugar esencial en el teatro de
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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