{"id":22035,"date":"2012-03-29T02:38:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22035"},"modified":"2012-03-29T02:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:42:22","slug":"vogue-italia-and-hoop-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22035","title":{"rendered":"Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Havana Barbie’s thought on the arts<\/a>
\n2011-08-23<\/p>\n

Melissa Blanco Borelli<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer of Dance Studies
\nUniversity of Surrey<\/em><\/p>\n

I have always loved to wear hoop earrings. In fact, they are my earrings of choice. Big and silver, that\u2019s how I like them. Imagine my surprise and shock when I saw earrings I have always called hoop earrings called \u201cSlave Earrings\u201d by Italian Vogue<\/a>. Really? Slave earrings? Vogue wants to link an ornamental accessory, a mark of indulgent aestheticism to a historically denigrated body that did not have the choice or power to choose how to look, let alone what to do? Even more appalling was the text (which has since been removed so as \u201cnot to offend\u201d and are now called \u201cethnic earrings<\/a>\u201d \u2026 sigh):
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\n\u201cJewellery has always flirted with circular shapes, especially for use in making earrings. The most classic models are the slave and creole styles in gold hoops. If the name brings to the mind the decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern Unites States during the slave trade, the latest interpretation is pure freedom. Colored stones, symbolic pendants and multiple spheres. And the evolution goes on.\u201d
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\nI want to focus on the phrase \u201cthe decorative traditions of the women of colour.\u201d Woman of colour is a charged label, especially when connected to the legacy of slavery, miscegenation<\/a>, and sexual peccadilloes not just in the US South, but in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean as well. Historically, in the eighteenth and nineteenth century woman of colour meant creole, m\u00e9tisse<\/em>, passe-blanc<\/em>, mulatta<\/a>, or mulattresse<\/em>, i.e., the mixed race woman who was black\u2026 but not quite. With her many names and pigments, the woman of colour and \u201cher decorative traditions\u201d in the southern United States is often problematically romanticized through the stories of the quadroon balls<\/a> of New Orleans where wealthy white men attended in search of sexual relationships. These women of colour negotiated liaisons called pla\u00e7age<\/a><\/em> which were economically beneficial for themselves and their extended, often matrilineal family. Many of these women of colour were free and some even owned slaves…<\/p>\n

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Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings Havana Barbie’s thought on the arts 2011-08-23 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey I have always loved to wear hoop earrings. In fact, they are my earrings of choice. Big and silver, that\u2019s how I like them. Imagine my surprise and shock when I saw earrings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,1196,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[10239,10237,10236,10238],"class_list":["post-22035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-havana-barbies-thought-on-the-arts","tag-melissa-b-borelli","tag-melissa-blanco-borelli","tag-melissa-borelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}