#harlem book fair

[zekethefreak]

Cruising Into September and Book Fairs

I’ve been back from my cruise for more than two weeks now. My wife and I had a great time. The Norwegian Joy took south and to the Caribbean. One day in Port Canaveral. Two days in Nassau, Bahamas. One day in Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. One day in Miami. And five days at sea. GLOW Party on the Norwegian Joy! Hibachi dining on ship at Teppanaki. While in Port Canaveral, we visited the Kennedy Space…

[bloggersrndainja]

Meet Me At The Harlem Book Fair This Saturday!

Harlem Book Fair 2024 Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. We’re officially in September. I’d like to remind my readers that I will be among the authors present at this year’s Harlem Book Fair on Saturday. If you happen to be on 125th street on Saturday, stop through.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

One of the artists commissioned to create a new work for the 1939-40 World's Fair was the sculptor Augusta Savage. A leading member of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only black woman to be so honored.

Her piece, intended to celebrate African-Americans’ contributions to music, showed a kneeling black man holding a bar of music and 12 black chorus singers representing strings on a harp, the sounding board of which was no less than the hand of God. She called it Lift Every Voice and Sing, a nod to a poem by her friend James Weldon Johnson that was later set to music and adopted as the black "national anthem" by the NAACP.

The work stood 16 feet tall and was made of plaster that had been lacquered to look like black basalt. She was paid $360 for it (around $8,000 in today's dollars) and it was placed in the courtyard of the Contemporary Arts Building, near one of the Fair’s gates. Fair officials renamed it The Harp, which Savage reportedly hated. Small metal replicas were sold as souvenirs, and images of it were reproduced on postcards.

When the Fair ended, Savage had no money to remove and store her sculpture, or to cast the large piece in bronze, as she had with other, smaller works. So, like all the other "temporary" artwork created for the Fair, it was destroyed by a bulldozer.

In 2017, a NY Times op-ed piece by the filmmaker Aviva Kempner proposed that a full-size replica of the sculpture be created and placed in front of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington. So far, there has been no movement towards carrying that idea out.

Photos: top and center, NYPL. Bottom, illustration from the book Harlem: Negro Metropolis (E.P. Dutton 1940) via The Wolfsonian–FIU.

[foster-the-world]

Funny baby boy things

Baby boy loves learning Spanish words. I dont know Spanish so often look up words on my phone. This morning he was in my room while I was getting dressed. He says “Mom how do you say boobies in Spanish. Ask your phone.” Then proceeds to take my phone and ask Siri.

Last night at the schools monthly literacy night dinner they had Harlem Magic Masters - a DJ and three basketball players who do tricks and entertain the crowd. They were very good. The kids loved them. At the beginning they did a dance contest. Baby boy went up by himself and the crowd went wild because he’s perfect. If anyone ever questioned if he has ADHD (they don’t) his dancing would prove it. It’s rapid fire movement with some break dancing thrown in. When announcing the winners they called one older girl up to give her a hat. Quincy then walks himself right up there, stands in front of him and puts his hand up. So freakin cute. Not sure who the real winner was but they couldn’t really say no. He was very happy with his baseball hat. The third winner was his little best friend who was also thrilled beyond believe. Rebel also won a ball catching contest - along with her sweet classmate. Bee was not happy to be the only non winner but all of the kids got free books from scholastic book fair stock so she was appeased. She chose one of the Harry Potter books we haven’t gotten to, yet.

Need to get through PTA meeting tonight and then finish packing for our early flight to London.

Managed to secure 75 free chick-fil- meals for teacher appreciation week. Our local restaurant does not have any homophobic policies and we aren’t actually giving them any money - so I figure it’s okay. Also got about $250 in gift cards to stack a dessert/drink snack cart we will deliver to each class. And a local bagel shop gives 75 bagels every year. Starbucks donated coffee - so we will have a nice breakfast.

Yesterday the Principals friend told her about a 70k capital improvement grant due tmrw. At first I said I couldn’t get it together. Then started thinking about how we could make our family room/meeting classroom so much better. I managed to get the whole application done at work today. My husband checked for grammar and said you could not tell it was done in only 1-2 hours. It certainly wasn’t perfect but I’m glad I took the time. I felt kind of bad but did not have the time/energy to send around to other exec team members for feedback. I figure it was worse to ask for advice and then ignore it then to just not ask. I didn’t want it hanging over my head tonight. I did tell the other members I was applying. Now it’s submitted- worse they can do is say no.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Thomas Sowell (June 30, 1930) was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. His family moved to Harlem. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, worked at various jobs, and obtained a high school degree in an evening program. After two years of service with the U.S. Marines receiving training as a photographer, he entered Howard University before transferring to Harvard University. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

He began a university teaching career which included Rutgers, Howard, Cornell, Brandeis, and UCLA. His positions with government and the private sector included the Department of Labor, the Urban Institute, and the Hoover Institution. He was the intellectual leader of an emerging group of African American neoconservatives in both government and academic circles.

He has written over 25 books. His earliest work, Economics: Analysis and Issues, appeared in 1971. His most recent work, A Conflict of Visions, was released in 2007. Race and Economics, the book that established his reputation as a major conservative economist, was published in 1975. His autobiography, A Personal Odyssey, was released in 2002. He won the Francis Boyer Award from the American Enterprise Institute. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics, and political science.

He contributed to scholarly economic journals, as well as numerous newspapers, news magazines, and other popular periodicals. Contending that laissez-faire “free market” policies are more effective in solving economic and social inequality, He has argued for more than three decades that race-based social policies such as affirmative action inhibit opportunities for African Americans. Cultural differences, he concludes, rather than racial discrimination, account for differences in socioeconomic advancement among racial groups and thus are the principal cause of inequality. Thomas Sowell was a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/18/veeps-profiles-in-insignificance-a-look-at-the-bumbling-murdering-drunken-idiots-and-others-whove-served-as-vice-president-of-the-usa/

#10yrsago Tim Wu on FCC’s net neutrality disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/a-fema-level-fail-the-law-professor-who-coined-net-neutrality-lashes-out-at-the-fccs-legal-strategy/

#10yrsago Random NSA program generator, with denials https://divergentdave.github.io/nsa-o-matic/

#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan https://mochihead.tumblr.com/post/31243751745

#10yrsago Scoring Obama’s NSA reforms (spoiler: it’s not good) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained

#15yrsago Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London’s fried-chicken signs https://web.archive.org/web/20101208073826/https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/meet-mr-chicken

#10yrsago Congress requires publicly funded research to be publicly available https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/newly-passed-appropriations-bill-makes-even-more-publicly-funded-research-available-online

#10yrsago Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/google-play-malware-used-phones-motion-sensors-to-conceal-itself/

#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/

#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/

#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA teachers’ strike https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html

#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU Copyright Directive https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive

#1yrago Care Inflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers

#1yrago Eleanor Janega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

[burtonandtaylor]

On the evening of May 14th in 1964, the Lunt-Fontanne theatre in New York City was the place to be.

It was a convergence of like minds and open hearts; a celebration of equality and justice for all. It was the NAACP Freedom Spectacular, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decisions to outlaw the segregation of schools.

Elizabeth and her husband at the time, Richard Burton, joined an elegantly dressed room of Civil Rights activists, filled with the likes of Sidney Poitier, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Jack Gilford, Ruby Dee and many more. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sponsored the nationwide closed circuit telecast in an effort to raise money for civil rights causes, specifically the mounting cost of bail bonds incurred by civil rights demonstrators who had been arrested in the South. Over 46 states booked arenas, auditoriums, and ballrooms to televise the event, which was hosted by Ed Sullivan and Sammy Davis Jr.

Elizabeth has of course always held a reputation as a social rights advocate, but she and Richard’s attendance of the Freedom Spectacular was more than just a lending of their celebrity. It was a statement of unconditional, unequivocal oneness broadcasted on national television, as they participated in the event as performers, thereby also using their acting skills and world-famous romance to connect to and support the civil rights movement.

Dressed in a fashionable black Christian Dior skirt suit with kitten heels and a mid-length bob typical of the 1960’s aesthetic, Elizabeth radiated class, elegance, and style as she sat poised on the theatre’s stage and read aloud a Langston Hughes poem. Elizabeth’s decision to read aloud the writing from one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance was more than endorsement of the cause and the fight, it was a stamp of recognition, from artist to artist, a show of reverence, from one individual to another, and a celebration of friendship between a white woman and a black man. Elizabeth and Langston were known to frequent similar social circles and both enjoyed many late nights at a popular Harlem nightclub called Sugar Ray’s.

Richard, dapper as always, joined Elizabeth on stage and read aloud two poems himself. Although footage from the Freedom Spectacular is hard to come by, the sentiments celebrated that night continue to ring loud and true. Elizabeth believed in fair and equal opportunities for all, and that spring night in 1964 was just one stop on her lifelong fight to create a just world for all people. X

[chthonic-cassandra]

Books, 2022

Favorite books, first-time reads: Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota #4) J. Anderson Coats, Spindle and Dagger Gayle Brandeis, Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus Vanessa Springora, Consent: A Memoir Shola von Reinhold, LOTE James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All

Runners up: Marcial Gala, Call Me Cassandra; Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun; Maurice Chammah, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty; Inua Ellams, The Half-God of Rainfall; Reginald Dwayne Betts, A Question of Freedom and Felon; Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text; Robert A. Schanke, That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta, Colston Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

Notable re-read experiences: Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen's Thief series Tanith Lee, Lords of the Flat Earth 1-3 Anne Rice, The Witching Hour Adele Géras, Troy Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life the latter half of the Shakespeare canon

Books that made me the angriest: Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships Rachel Hope Cleves, Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart Hannah Capin, Foul is Fair Total books as of 12/30 is roughly 341 (that includes some but not all of the rereads). I of course had many other notable reading experiences that do not fit into any of the above categories, including Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess and the 13 Sookie Stackhouse books.

[booasaur]

Wait….Harlem spoilers ahead!!!

JF is only credited for these two episodes?! That was it?! That was how they ended?! I mean I didn’t expect them to stay together forever but like, that’s it? 😭😭😭 I really hope Quinn doesn’t magically forget that she’s queer for the next 6 episodes.

Thank you for being so clear about the spoilers, anon!

I knowwww. The thing is, I found out through spoilers in my inbox on Thursday evening when I hadn't started watching yet, so I was doubly crushed. And as always happens when I get spoilers I didn't want, it just put me off so I did wait a while but then my friend ended up watching and actually, she was a bit more chill than the message I'd gotten? From what she'd said, it was more circumstances than blaming either of them and yeah, by the time I watched, I'd say I'd agree with that, so maybe Isabela will come back?

JF is only on the first two eps on IMDB and it seems pretty filled out for the whole cast, and she seems like she's been shooting other stuff, so I dunno if we'll get any more, especially this season, but we do know that Quinn definitely doesn't magically forget she's queer, there's still this ep to come, probably ep 5, called Pride:

But what I also found a little odd was that during the convo with Isabela, she's like, I don't want to half-ass either the election or things with you, so maybe we should step back, but Quinn and then Angie after were treating it like Isabela just couldn't handle Quinn herself. "You'll find someone who loves all of you", like, Shawn and Isabela weren't turned off by her Quinn-ness? She was the one who decided to turn down Shawn and Isabela literally had an election to focus on.

Speaking of disconnects, feel like they're being repetitive with Tye as well, like, first, friends do count as connections so why act like she's got nothing at all when she has three very close best friends? Angie and Quinn have no better long-term relationships going either? And deciding to hook up with Zoe as a fellow low-maintenance player, we literally did that in the first season??

But this show is honestly just not that serious, heh, and unlike with other shows, I can't really say that the f/f is being treated worse because it's f/f, I think it's just the genre. Camille's romance is ostensibly the best treated but Ian kind of sucks so...

And another anon:

**Harlem s2 spoiler: I... am speechless. How are Quinn and Isabela already over? They rushed through that hella quick! I thought they'd be going most of the season. I hope it's not over over... Quinn does have a lot of growing up to do on her own, but man. 2 episodes of weird dates and Isabela's done? after a season build up? Why do I keep falling for the disappointing ones...

Anon, you sent before I even knew the eps were out! In fairness, you did put the warning at the top and a linebreak, but next time maybe some more lines in between? Because I'd already read through the rest before comprehending the first. D:

I'm surprised it's over so quickly as well, considering the buildup, but maybe JF was booked? She has roles in DMZ and Fleishman Is in Trouble. I'd have thought this would be the priority and she'd only go for the other roles if she didn't have this, but who knows.

[freeworldallahexecutivembaclass]

Good film please enjoy

My New York City accomplishments and check my update list of accomplishments I got free gym membership people on Medicare for the little old ladies I don't throw them in the streets and I doubt Trump ever did Trump is my man this is teach me that no matter what you in get into they are going to be critics what In saying I'm the best help New Yorkers have had in decades if not centuries Trump is the whole package but he had boundaries he set boundaries and was strong against people especially the criminal element me I defend the proletariat the common man and woman with real issues and get them the laws passed that they need boost the economy with more money legalize weed get free college education for the city citibikes more money for people on Human resources administration and permanent employment from temporary seasonal jobs from decades long however much months work program they learn and then get kicked out and you can't support yourself and your family I made it where that after you finish that probation period you get the job the job security meaning your secure because you got a steady paycheck and now could build a future from there I got union contract for Starbucks workers and Amazon workers and more money on the city feps and seps voucher for their housing the city pay more rent for you so you and your family could rent in the neighborhoods you want with better schools and employment opportunities for the parents to provide a good future for their kids

New York City accomplishments and still much more everyday I wake up to more accomplishments

I got hotels for the homeless in New York City 2021

I got Amazon workers their union contract

I got Starbucks workers their union contract

I got the minimum wage increased from $ 11 dollars an hour to $ 15 dollars to $ 17 dollars an hour

I got more money put on the housing vouchers the city feps and seps voucher so that homeless individuals and women with their kids and husband and wife can have better housing and a better life for themselves and their family And it's only going to get better more housing more safer housing where the housing crew does it's job and provide safe clean housing toxic free air conditioners and heating free cable watch some good TV shows and movies and enjoy their summer and winter and they get WI Fi now hooked up with their house packages and hopefully more money on the voucher to help rehabilitating families to get their lives together better housing and better schools for their kids equal a better future

I got the fair chance to compete for a job act of 2019 in New York City and California hopefully other cities and countries are going to follow suit

I legalized marijuana in New York City

I cleaned up fox square in Brooklyn , NY

Free college education in New York City

Free gym membership for people on Medicare

I brought Yo MTV raps to the Brooklyn Museum 🎨 an Art museum since I'm of the sophisticated crowd and Talented tenth from W . E . B . Dubois book and I'm a rapper from Harlem and Brooklyn New York City via Saint Croix U.S. Virgin Islands

Citi bikes for New Yorkers

Benefit monetary assistance increase for snap and cash assistance recipients

Rikers Island tablet program podcasts and video games for inmates in jail to help stop crime violent crime in prison and to help rehabilitate the guy or woman and stop the back and forth of them going to jail . The tablet have podcasts and programs for Job Search legal research and books to read to help them become better citizens in the free society .

I got my own subway street named after me now called Respect Avenue in New York City New York and Brooklyn New York

Governor Andrew Cuomo gave me and opened an hospital named after me in Brooklyn , New York back in 2015 Brooklyn's 760 downstate biotechnology incubator hospital 🏥 thank you

I got meteors in front of the courtroom in New York City right in front of City Hall , 80 and 100 Centre street symbolizing I'm superman and I'm not a enemy of the people of New York I'm their friend and employers are there to help me if I just meet them halfway with some job skills they will employ me get me a job and for all that I say thank you for letting me work my way back into America's good people list thank you so much I mean I'm working and learning to give myself a job start my own business I'm learning how to do that but it is good to know that I got y'all white people the decent ones on my side not the ones that side with my enemies and haters but the ones that rock with me to be there to give me my life back with the meteors in front of the courtrooms thank you for the chance again in my life to work and not stay idle in dangerous neighborhoods and environments which I'm teaching my way out of but thank you so much and I honor that thank you so much I'm proud to be an American 🏈

Laws I'm proposing

Job Safety and secure act - 2022

Fair banking act - 2022

Retirement investment plan for employees IRA act - 2022

Ready , willing and able Expansive territory act - 2023

Riverside drive Expansion project act - 2023

The new ferry from New Jersey to New York City - 2023

School sports culture expansion Act Copperas Cove , Texas

Rikers Island schooling expansion act Added on Basic education classes on Rikers Island on the tablet , college programs on the program , online school on the Tablet . -2023

NYCHA ( New York City Housing projects ) plans and ideas for improvement

The New Trench town rock - 2021 , 2022 , 2023

I won the Super bowl with Patrick Mahomes I got Clinton Dannemora back and I came home and took over the streets of NYC in politics Errol Louis of Channel 1 news would be proud of me

President Joe Biden gave me a medal of honor for heroism and striving to help humanity

Lebron James to sports center " I like what we're building " 4 / 2 / 2023

And many other pitches and proposals rebuilding the workforce , wages and structure of New York city and cities like New York .

Next order of business : My Plans for infrastructure in a utopian society hotels jobs pay raise on citizens paycheck from 15 $ - 17 $ dollars minimum wage pay to 19$ dollars to 20$ dollars an hour to better provide for all costs emergencies uncovered insurance payments due to partial health care coverage and full union membership granted to employees of any company free education grants and school loans payment plans

Pay raise for school teachers in every city at junior high school , high school and elementary school level since they are stewards of our children's future .

Pay raise for civil service workers and Civil service exams made and updated daily to the public , school crossing guards , correction officers , supervisors , probation officers , construction site supervisors .

Pay raise for day care workers

Free day care services for temporarily unemployed mothers and fathers

Pay raise for city fire fighters and police officers .

Job contractors fulfilling contracts with back to work public assistance programs that train and employ job candidates without their high school diploma or GED and granting them full employment with full medical and medicare coverage union membership and back to school Acces Vocational rehabilitation counseling and restoration of financial aid assistance for non violent crimes like drug sellers and abusers to stop recidivism to prison and to cure an addiction to a habit of committing perpetual crimes thus creating repeat offenders .

Jobs moving back to inner cities through the effort of study and research groups from urban planning courses from their neighboring colleges .

Tax abatement and financial incentives and business incentives and tax breaks .

Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris should include this law into all of their plan for cleaning up America I'm glad to see it go beyond New York City and other counties in New York I want to share this honor with author Michelle Alexander who I did my research from her book about mass incarceration of the Black and Latino community and the political office and my friends that help put this law in place I reached out to hopefully stop the recidivism to prison and hopefully to help some of my friends and people that go back and forth to jail because they couldn't get a job due to the felonies on their record I recommend a certificate of relief of disabilities to all people returning to society if they haven't given you one go get it from your county's or borough courthouse it works wonders .

Next order of business : Tax cuts to help the everyday person keep more of their check in their pockets cut the tax rates in New York City by 4 percent I see it as New York State taxes % 8.82 to % 4 percent and business tax cuts to create more jobs Proposal For a Wage increase of $ 22 dollars an hour Including : Fire safety directors Security guards Librarians Fed Ex workers UPS workers Ready Willing and able with free vocational grants from access vr programs they should hire vocational rehabilitation counselors and job developers finding permanent housing and permanent job placement after the clients training Stock Clerks and cashier's at major stores like Gristedes , C Town , met foods , Burlington coat factory wage increase for all warehousing and factory workers jack pallet and forklift training for people with no experience and a starting salary at $ 17 - 19 $ dollars an hour and it increase with more time on the job how about the first year at that base salary of $ 17 - 19 $ dollars and on the even of that year the employee gets an raise of $ 2 dollars more on their check and other financial incentives as cash allocation from their check for newly place employee mutual fund packages besides with other benefits that said company is offering this helps to place that company on the stock market grant their employees preferred stock options from their company that they work for at that current moment and because of the huge huge employee buy in it is like the employers are investing in their employees and their stores and company .

Educational requirements for jobs posted is less than a high school diploma but the job candidate has to be in a vocational program or GED preparation course half or full time hours .

Civil service jobs and exams posted weekly .

Sales professional salary plus commission on sales and stock options for mutual funds packages as bonuses with an wage increase to $ 19 dollars to $ 21 dollars an hour .

Newly added benefits to a job description benefits an employer on jobs posted give to their employees an employer get to hold back cash or take money out of an employees check to put towards a mutual funds stock fund option to help that client make more money as a second job the municipals funds and stock and funds and stock and then you gotta get hedge funds option packaged in to help the employees money make more money for them talk about overtime whew and at the same time that local market and store owner can put his company on the stock market and give out public shares thus in the end making it a good investment a regular place of shopping in a family like environment it is like getting to know your deli clerk , butcher , bakery attendant again only this time you are making money with the people you are spending money with Think about it that in turns build better communities better stores customer relationships safer neighborhoods and the beautifying of economically depressed environments more money for your kids college tuition school supplies newer roads being built leading to and from better neighborhoods and businesses and this is a future that we all as fellow New Yorkers can build together .

This is for young mothers without any help in the house feed your babies good food 🥝 so they grow up and play sports and make their mom proud 🪴. It is never too late for your education learn with your kids use free daycare services and self learn any skills you need to increase your value in the employment market .

[pennstateuniversitypress]

Q&A with Mary Ann Calo

The author of African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs discusses the significance of New Deal art projects, the Harlem Artists' Guild, and more.

How were the New Deal art projects significant to the history of African American art?

Historians have tended to think of the New Deal art projects as having had a generally positive effect on the development of African American art. The immediate purpose of the projects was to provide financial relief in the form of employment for artists during the Depression. In practical terms, the projects gave Black artists who were eligible time to work and unprecedented access to materials and instruction. There was strong consensus among participating artists that opportunities offered by the art projects at least partially redressed the chronic disadvantages and isolation they had faced. These art projects thus functioned as mechanisms to advance their careers and facilitate their entry into the mainstream of American cultural life.

My primary focus is on the programs of the Federal Art Project (FAP), the largest New Deal arts initiative, administered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1935 to 1943. The FAP was a branch of Federal Project Number One, which encompassed multiple government-supported initiatives to provide work relief not only for artists but also for writers and creative practitioners in theater and music. In a departure from historical accounts that concentrate on individual accomplishments within the FAP, I shift the analytical focus to educational projects such as Community Art Centers. These facilities, some of which were established to serve racially segregated populations, combined opportunities for technical instruction and art appreciation with a social service mentality. While centers in Harlem and Chicago have long enjoyed public visibility and distinction, I expand the discussion to include lesser-known initiatives in the South, noting the vast differences between specific locales.

The book moves beyond accounts of artists who personally benefitted from the projects, and the works they produced, toward broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience and circumstances. I argue that the revolutionary vision of the New Deal art projects must be understood in the context of access to opportunity mediated by the realities of racism and segregation.

Were the federal art projects fair? Were they equitable?

While other divisions of Federal One, such as theater and writing, had units dedicated to African American culture, by design the FAP was “race blind.” But historians of the New Deal visual art programs have long had to reconcile optimism about expanded opportunity and nondiscrimination with the fact of low African American participation numbers, especially in the creative divisions. I examine the skill and relief requirements of the FAP in terms of their impact on choices open to African American artists and the emphasis within project administration on the primacy of educational, rather than creative, work in the Black community.

The elaborate skill classification system of the FAP, which distinguished between various levels of preparedness to perform certain kinds of work, contained obvious (but unacknowledged) pitfalls for African American artists. For example, individuals seeking to qualify for the creative divisions, which would provide support for time spent in the studio, were asked to furnish information on their training as artists and their exhibition history. This was a challenge for Black artists who lacked opportunities to attend art school or regularly show their work. Administrators were preoccupied with ensuring equal access to the benefits of the projects but disinclined to challenge existing norms of segregation or examine their consequences.

How crucial are archives and documents in writing African American art history?

Archival repositories and primary documents have always been essential to writing the history of New Deal art projects. Accounting for African American experience within them is hindered, as in many areas of American cultural history, by insufficient interest and a fragmented archival landscape. Because Black artists were largely overlooked during the documentary phase of early research on the New Deal art projects, when statistics were gathered and standard histories were being written, the task of tracking and sorting relevant data has been an ongoing challenge. And while a great deal of progress has been made in recent years, participation and program records are dispersed and not easily aggregated for purposes of analysis.

How did the Harlem Artists' Guild function, and to what extent was it a Popular Front organization?

On its face, the Harlem Artists Guild’s (HAG) was a prototypical artist advocacy organization of the New Deal era. But its agenda was also rooted in discourses about race and culture that had evolved decades earlier. In that sense, while emblematic of the impulse to unite and organize in the 1930s, the HAG existed in a different space of cultural meaning and significance.

The activities of the HAG can, to an extent, be located within the context of Popular Front ideology, which emphasized coalition building in the interest of maximizing the impact of progressive forces. Traditionally, New Deal historians have tended tend to think of the HAG as an offshoot of the Artists’ Union (AU). This suggests that it derived its energy from the dominant activist organization of the majority culture. I describe the nature of its alliances with groups central to this period, such as the AU and the American Artists’ Congress (AAC), but also with the National Negro Congress (NNC) and local civic organizations. This is consistent with more recent historical approaches that raise questions about the extent to which civil rights organizations such as the NNC may have intersected with this cultural energy and stimulated it.

African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs: Opportunity, Access, and Community is now available from Penn State University Press. Learn more and order the book here: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09493-9.html. Save 30% w/ discount code NR23.

[bloggersrndainja]

Meet Marc Polite at the Harlem Book Fair 2023!

Harlem Book Fair 2023 Flyer Greetings, all. I thought I would let you know that I will be at the Harlem Book Fair 2023. Here is the flyer. Come through if you can.

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I’m considering taking a modern poetry course. Do you have any poets you like or any poetry writing sources?

Ooh that's exciting! If you end up taking the class, I hope it's a fun one.

As for poets I like, well, there's a lot, and I don't have time to list every single one of them here, so I'll just give you those that I consider to be my top five, though it pains me to leave so many wonderful poets off the list. In birth order, they are:

Langston Hughes - One of the big names of the Harlem Renaissance. I love him because he wrote about things that mattered in very accessible language, like when you read his work, you get what he was saying the first time, and then you can dissect all the interesting little intricacies from there.

Allen Ginsberg - One of the big names of the Beat Generation. I love him because he writes so bombastically. I don't know how to explain it in a way that makes sense necessarily, but try reading "Howl" (probably his most famous work), and I think you'll get what I mean.

Anne Sexton - Famous for her confessional style poetry. I love her because her subject matter - mental illness, gender, family relationships, etc. - is very relatable to me, and she has such a deeply personal style that when I read her, I feel like I'm talking to a friend about what they're going through.

Diane di Prima - Also a part of the Beat Generation, though not as well-known as the men. I must've read her book "Loba" (the 1998 version) fifteen times or more. She writes about femininity as powerful, and her work has often been compared as the "feminine counterpart to Ginsberg's 'Howl'" which I don't think is very fair to her because her work stands by itself. But anyway, she's amazing, and I really adore her work.

Nikita Gill - The only person on this list still alive and writing today. She's got a way with weaving poetry and narrative together that just makes me so enamored. Highly recommend "The Girl and the Goddess."

For poetry writing sources, I'm sorry to say I don't have much. Like I've said previously, I was really discouraged by my poetry professor in university, so I gave away all of my poetry writing books. That said, if you're just getting started writing poetry, I suggest googling "poetry forms" and reading about different ones, like the lantern poem, the ballad, the triolet, etc., and give writing them a try. Often, these will force you to write in a way that you normally wouldn't, and it'll feel kind of frustrating at times, but through that, you can learn a lot about poetry itself and about your own preferences. For instance, I absolutely hate writing villanelles because I find the form itself too constricting. I love writing lantern poems, though, because the limitations of the form makes finding the perfect words so incredibly important. It's a good place to start to figure out what kinds of poems you're into writing and why you like those things, and that's a foundation that you can build from.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to babble on about my favorite poets. Again, I really hope your poetry class is fun if you choose to take it, and I hope your teacher/professor is better than mine was lol.

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