{"id":52498,"date":"2017-03-15T01:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52498"},"modified":"2017-03-15T01:37:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:37:38","slug":"the-signifying-saint-encoding-homoerotic-intimacy-in-black-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52498","title":{"rendered":"The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Perspectives<\/a>
\n2017-03-14<\/p>\n

James Padilioni Jr<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D Candidate and Teaching Fellow in American Studies (Africana-affiliated)
\nCollege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the home studio of Carl Van Vechten<\/a>. Van Vechten, author of the infamous 1926 novel Nigger Heaven<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>was a white patron of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a> and amateur photographer who took hundreds of photographs of Black Harlem\u2019s who\u2019s who<\/a> such as Paul Robeson<\/a>, Billie Holiday<\/a>, and James Weldon Johnson<\/a>. Atkinson, an off-Broadway<\/a> actor no stranger to playing a role, transformed himself into Martin de Porres<\/a> (1579-1639), a Peruvian friar who became the first Afro-American saint when the Vatican<\/a> canonized<\/a> him in 1962 as the patron of social justice. I trace Martin\u2019s iconography<\/a> and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin<\/a> and Anglo America<\/a> to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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I trace Martin\u2019s iconography and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin and Anglo America to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,666,459,14646,1196,8,820],"tags":[26485,8949,26484,1631,55,26486,6228,26487,596],"class_list":["post-52498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-gaylesbian","category-history","category-latino","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-black-perspectives","tag-carl-van-vechten","tag-edward-atkinson","tag-harlem","tag-harlem-renaissance","tag-james-padilioni-jr","tag-martin-de-porres","tag-martin-de-porres-velazquez","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498","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=52498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52502,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498\/revisions\/52502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}