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A Three-Site
TRIBUTE
TO BARTEE
June
12, June 20, July 2, 2003
On
the Passing of Rich Bartee
(10 October 1943 - 2 April 2003)
A Personal Note
by Louis Reyes Rivera
Community
Testament In Confidence
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A Salute to Richard L.
Bartee
(Oct. 10, 1943 - Apr. 2, 2003)
Site One: Overture
Thursday, June 12, 2003
WBAI (99.5 fm)
on Perspective, 2pm
Site Two: Segue
Friday, June 20, 2003
Crown Heights Youth Collective
915 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
(between Carroll and Crown streets)
7pm to 11pm
Site Three: Coda
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Schomburg Library
135th Street & Malcolm X Boulevard
6pm to 9pm
featuring (still in formation):
Lindamichelle
Baron
Ron Bascombe
John Watusi Branch
Kwame Brathwaite
Bread Is Rising
Marc Anthony Butcher
Loretta Campbell
Brenda Connor-Bey
El Anna Cornelius
Linda Cousins
C.D. Grant
Richard Greene |
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Harris
Gregory Holder
Gary Johnston
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Atiba Kwabena
Tom Mitchelson
Abu Muhammad
Baaquia Muhammad
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Imani Carol Parker
Ali Rahman
Louis Reyes Rivera |
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JC Rocwell
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212 929 2241 or contact:
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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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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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update
8 December 2011
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