{"id":36340,"date":"2014-04-21T01:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36340"},"modified":"2014-04-21T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T02:04:04","slug":"josephine-bakers-rainbow-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36340","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Baker\u2019s Rainbow Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/history\/2014\/04\/josephine_baker_s_rainbow_tribe_before_madonna_and_angelina_jolie_the_expat.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker\u2019s Rainbow Tribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a><br \/>\n2014-04-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.rebecca_onion.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rebecca Onion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe\u2014and charged admission to watch them coexist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josephine_Baker\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker<\/a> adopted 12 children from different countries, ranging from Finland to Venezuela. She installed what she called her \u201cRainbow Tribe\u201d in a 15th-century chateau in the South of France and charged admission to tourists who came to hear them sing, to tour their home, or to watch them play leapfrog in their garden.<\/p>\n<p>This little-known chapter in Baker\u2019s life is an uncomfortable one. \u201cI would begin to tell the story of Josephine Baker, and people would start to laugh,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Departments\/Africana_Studies\/people\/matthew_guterl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Pratt Guterl<\/a>, the author of a new book on Baker\u2019s later life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35844\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnd I would start to wonder what that laughter signified.\u201d Guterl, a professor of Africana studies and American studies at Brown University, has in essence written two books in one: the story of Baker\u2019s family, and a meditation on the meaning of that laughter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/history\/2014\/04\/josephine_baker_s_rainbow_tribe_before_madonna_and_angelina_jolie_the_expat.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josephine Baker\u2019s Rainbow Tribe Slate 2014-04-18 Rebecca Onion To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe\u2014and charged admission to watch them coexist. Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,5,459,8,25],"tags":[12847,14072,17265],"class_list":["post-36340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-josephine-baker","tag-matthew-pratt-guterl","tag-rebecca-onion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340","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=36340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}