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Books by Eugene Redmond
Sides of the River (1969)
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Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970) /
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971) /
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972)
In
a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) /
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) /
Drumvoices
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Books by and
about Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham Dancing a Life
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Island Possessed /
Black Dance from 1619 to Today /
A Touch of Innocence: A Memoir of Childhood
Dances of Haiti /
Equality For A Lightning Bug: A Small Collection of
Poems /
Journey to Accompong
Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
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Katherine Dunham: Pioneer of Black Dance
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Katherine Dunham
(22 June 1909 – 21
May 2006)
Drumvoices Festival of Arts #2:
October 24-27, 2006
(Celebrating the 20th Birthday of the Eugene B. Redmond
Writers Club)
October 24:
“Katherine Dunham: A
Literary Tribute”
(with dance/drum/jazz
interludes)
12:30 p. m. --
Dunham Hall Theater SIUE (free) -
Performers: Michael Castro, Community Performance
Ensemble, Roscoe
Crenshaw, Mari Evans, Sherman L. Fowler, Charlois
Lumpkin, Charlotte Ottley,
Howard Rambsy,
Redmond, Darlene Roy, SIUE/ESL Center for Performing
Arts, Jeffrey Skoblow,
Andrew Theising,
Reginald Thomas, Lena Weathers.
“’Look on me and be
renewed:’ Words from Indianapolis Poet Laureate Mari
Evans”
7:00 p.m. --
Mississippi-Illinois Room SIUE (free) - Soular
System Ensemble opens performance
October 25:
“Forests of Poetrees”:
EBR Writers Club 20th Birthday Reception
7:00 p.m. --
Missouri History Museum, Lindell & DeBaliviere, St.
Louis [by
invitation]
October 26:
“’The Architecture of
Language’: A Poetry Reading by Quincy Troupe”
12:30 p.m. –
Dunham Hall Theater SIUE (free) - K. Curtis Lyle
opens performance
“Fruits from Poetrees:
EBRWC 20th Birthday & Awards Banquet”
7:00
p.m. -- Casino Queen Hotel Ballroom 200 Front
Street East St. Louis (Tickets: $30.00)
(Featuring Evans,
Troupe, Jazz, & Photo Exhibits)
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posted 4 October 2006
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Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library
of Congress
The Katherine Dunham Collection consists of materials purchased from
the archives of the Dunham Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, and
is made possible through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation. The Collection comprises 1,694 items in a variety of
video/motion picture formats. It documents many aspects of Dunham’s
dance career: her work as a choreographer, her dance technique and
teaching method, various of her performances and productions, and
her anthropological analysis of the dance and ritual of the African
diaspora. The Collection also testifies to her global activism and
leadership in the field of human rights and her advocacy of African
American causes in her community.
The materials in this
collection are housed and available for use in the Motion Picture,
Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Reading Room. Viewing requests
should be directed to the MBRS Reading Room at 202-707-8572. Items
should be requestedusing the “Motion Picture ID#” given in this
document. The numbers found in the field labeled “Tape #” are only
included for use in provenance tracking. (Those are the numbers that
were on the tapes at the Dunham Center Archives in East St. Louis.)
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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