 | | | | Missing from History: Langston Hughes' The Man Who Went To War Langston Hughes, poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was largely excluded from mainstream American radio despite his numerous attempts to bring the African-American experience to the airwaves. He considered his 1944 radio ballad "The Man Who Went To War," produced in New York by D. G. Bridson of the BBC, his most successful radio work, featuring some of the most significant African-American performers of the era: Paul Robeson, Josh White, Ethel Waters, and Canada Lee. Alan Lomax arranged the music, which was sung by the Hall Johnson Choir, accompanied by noted bluesmen Sonny Terry playing... |
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| Flat Affect, Joyful Politics and Enthralled Attachments: Engaging with the Work of Lauren Berlant One of today's major theorists, Lauren Berlant, has explored the diverse cultural registers across which sense and feeling organise public and private life from sexual and aesthetic experiences to political participation and economic struggles. She considers how these zones of practice fit together: for instance, how the aesthetics of embodiment and eating relate to the temporality of the workday and the debt cycle; how what is unbearable or unclear in our fantasies and experiences of intimacy open onto modes of political discourses of nationhood, citizenship and identification; how... |
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| Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism, and the Racial Rainbow in East Germany This chapter explores a conundrum faced in East Germany as in all other communist countries. How did one depict the peoples of the world when categories of race had been officially banished? I suggest that East German authorities and visual artists used a mode of representation that I call socialist chromatism. Within the larger idiom of socialist realism, socialist chromatism relied on skin color and other markers of phenotypic difference to create (overly) neat divisions between social groups within a technically non-hierarchical logic of race often depicted as a kind of "racial... |
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| Productive pedagogies: A redefined methodology for analysing quality teacher practice This paper identifies the ways in which the Productive Pedagogies framework has been refined as a research tool for evaluating classroom practice within a current study into issues of school reform in Queensland. Initially emerging from the landmark Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (1998–2001), the Productive Pedagogies has been taken up widely in Australia and internationally as both a research tool and metalanguage to support teachers to critically reflect on their practice. In this paper, following a brief description of the model's four dimensions, we detail how we have... |
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| Women and Death, Monsters and Menstruation in Hans Baldung Grien Baldung's figurations of blood and fire, feminine hair, and the feminine body as poisonous vessel, negotiate this multivalent semiotics with both irony and verisimilitude. Within the complex codification that relies upon Death/Menstruation as the hermeneutic of the Fall, the Fall itself is presented as premier among Woman's natural and inevitable maleficia. The dominant role Baldung's witch takes in the production of visible maleficium echoes Hugh of St. Victor, who quotes from Augustine, and who is in turn echoed in the Malleus Maleficarum. Hugh paints Woman's concupiscence conventionally,... |
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| Pan-Americanism, Patriotism, and Race Pride in Charles White's Hampton Mural Since its presentation to the college more than seventy years ago, Charles White's Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America continues to be recognized primarily for promoting public knowledge and pride in African American history. Art critics and scholars generally have focused on the various portrait figures in the composition and interpreted the painting as a didactic corrective to the predominantly white historical narratives taught to schoolchildren. While these historical figures would have been recognizable to contemporary viewers, the meaning and function of the colossal... |
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| The Liberal Attraction to Technological Progress and the RAF Liberalism as an ideology of Western societies tends to see technological and scientific improvements in unequivocally positive terms. In fact, the notion of progress, advancement and amelioration are among the most fundamental attributes of liberalism and military affairs are not excluded from the liberal belief in improvement through science and technology. This chapter examines the ideological background of Britain's propensity to utilise a revolutionary military technology. Focusing primarily on the interwar defence policy and its emphasis on air power, this paper is set to argue that... |
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