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His Majesty The King of
Asante
Otumfuo
Osei Tutu II
From Ghana, Makes First Visit to Boston
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Plans Community Celebration in His
Honor
BOSTON, Mass. (October, 2005)-In a rare visit to the U.S., on
Wednesday, November 2, the King of the Asante people of Ghana, His
Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II-officially known as the Asantehene-will
be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
His Majesty will be the guest of honor during a
reception at the MFA, accompanied by a delegation of his palace
officials. He will enter the Museum in a ceremonial
procession, wearing full regalia, and permit members of the
community to pay their respect, while sitting in state. This
event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:00 p.m.
and will last until approximately 7:30 p.m.
The King's visit to Boston, organized in
collaboration with Harvard University, marks the MFA's opening of
the exhibition West African Gold: Akan Regalia from the Glassell
Collection the same day. The royal dress
and gold adornment on display in the exhibition are among the most
spectacular in Africa.
After entering the Huntington Avenue doors into the Museum, the
Asantehene will proceed with his palace officials along a red
carpet up the grand staircase to the majestic Koch Gallery.
The procession will be accompanied by traditional Asante drumming,
horn blowing, and dancing provided by the Ghanaian community in
the U.S. His Majesty will sit in state for approximately one
hour and the public will be invited to enter the gallery to greet
him.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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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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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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