Tag: France

  • Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…

  • For his first solo museum exhibition in France at Palais de Tokyo, Theaster Gates explores America’s dark forgotten past through the interracial exile of Malaga Island.

  • The story of this brilliant, sometime forgotten, underrated composer can date back to the ugly history of racial discrimination in the United States. His family’s sojourner led this brilliant man to work and strive in his chosen profession. It was that sacrifice of his father that made that opportunity possible.

  • ‘The Chevalier’ team is eager to burnish the legacy of Joseph Bologne Experience CSO Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Chicago, Illinois 2022-02-01 Kyle MacMillan Originally commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, “The Chevalier” received its debut run at the Tanglewood Learning Institute, as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival, in 2019. A champion fencer, gifted athlete,…

  • The performer will be the first Black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her wartime work

  • In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery.

  • Mixed-Race Melodrama: Métisse Dr Zélie Asava: Rethinking Representation 2020-12-14 Zélie Asava, Academic. Speaker. Author. Métisse [Mixed-Race] (Kassovitz, France, 1993) adheres to the ethics of beur cinema by reimagining the French nuclear family as black, mixed and white through its central characters. As a pioneering work it is flawed but, by directly engaging with issues of…

  • For its 4th edition in France, the National Adoption Awareness Month, organized by the director Amandine Gay, offers a comparative view between the experience of transracial adoptees and mixed-race people.

  • Work Of First African American Painter With International Reputation Explored Art Where You’re At National Public Radio 2021-09-07 Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent Photograph of Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1907. Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917)/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American…

  • The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor.