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A VIBRANT SAMPLE OF THE WORKS OF VISUAL ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS¿ PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS (POST), Chrysalis CELEBRATES THE WORK OF ARTISTS WHO CONVENE AN ANNUAL, PUBLIC, CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF ART NOW IN ITS 8TH YEAR. VISITORS TO POST ARTISTS¿ STUDIOS, IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY, EXPERIENCE A DIVERSE, AND LIVELY, BODY OF ARTWORK--BOTH COMPLETED AND IN PROGRESS--INCLUDING PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE, PRINTMAKING, PHOTOGRAPHY, FURNITURE, INSTALLATION, JEWELRY, CERAMICS, GLASSWORKS, AND FIBER ARTS, DYNAMIC EXAMPLES OF WHICH ARE PRESENT IN THIS VOLUME.
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This book focuses on the experiences of underserved student and faculty at historically Black colleges and universities. Encompassing institutional supports, identity development, and socialization patterns, it explores how “outsider” perspectives will impact future research and practice, while also emphasizing issues of diversity and inclusion.
Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.
A historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Cecil Jobson traces how a model of governance fashioned during prior oil booms is imperiled by declining fossil fuel production and a loss of state control. Despite the twin-island nation’s increasingly volatile and vulnerable financial condition, however, government officials continue to promote it as a land of inexhaustible resources and potentially limitless profits. The result is what Jobson calls a “masquerade of permanence” whereby Trinbagonian...
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Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.
Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.