Focusing on the Virginia Jubilee Singers, an African American singing ensemble that toured South ... more Focusing on the Virginia Jubilee Singers, an African American singing ensemble that toured South Africa in the late nineteenth century, this article reveals how the transnational reach of commercialized black music informed debates about race, modernity, and black nationalism in South Africa. The South African performances of the Jubilee Singers enlivened debates concerning race, labor and the place of black South Africans in a rapidly industrializing South Africa. A visit from the first generation of global black American superstars fueled both white and black concerns about the racial political economy. The sonic actions of the Jubilee Singers were therefore a springboard for black South African claims for recognition as modern, educated and educable subjects, capable of, and entitled to, the full apparatus, and insignia, of liberal self-determination. Although black South Africans welcomed the Jubilee Singers enthusiastically, the article cautions against reading their positive r...
... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southe... more ... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southern African wdmen as political agents, and to represent the possibility of a non-racist love. ... WORKS CITED Chrisman, Laura. " Allegory, Feminist Thought and the Dreams of Olive ...
... This account of a female gentility violated by the demands of prison labour invites a certain... more ... This account of a female gentility violated by the demands of prison labour invites a certain ideological extrapolation: Plaatje is moved by a conservative concern to protect petty-bourgeois African ... See also Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter (1972) for a similarly brief allusion. ...
... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southe... more ... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southern African wdmen as political agents, and to represent the possibility of a non-racist love. ... WORKS CITED Chrisman, Laura. " Allegory, Feminist Thought and the Dreams of Olive ...
Focusing on the Virginia Jubilee Singers, an African American singing ensemble that toured South ... more Focusing on the Virginia Jubilee Singers, an African American singing ensemble that toured South Africa in the late nineteenth century, this article reveals how the transnational reach of commercialized black music informed debates about race, modernity, and black nationalism in South Africa. The South African performances of the Jubilee Singers enlivened debates concerning race, labor and the place of black South Africans in a rapidly industrializing South Africa. A visit from the first generation of global black American superstars fueled both white and black concerns about the racial political economy. The sonic actions of the Jubilee Singers were therefore a springboard for black South African claims for recognition as modern, educated and educable subjects, capable of, and entitled to, the full apparatus, and insignia, of liberal self-determination. Although black South Africans welcomed the Jubilee Singers enthusiastically, the article cautions against reading their positive r...
... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southe... more ... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southern African wdmen as political agents, and to represent the possibility of a non-racist love. ... WORKS CITED Chrisman, Laura. " Allegory, Feminist Thought and the Dreams of Olive ...
... This account of a female gentility violated by the demands of prison labour invites a certain... more ... This account of a female gentility violated by the demands of prison labour invites a certain ideological extrapolation: Plaatje is moved by a conservative concern to protect petty-bourgeois African ... See also Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter (1972) for a similarly brief allusion. ...
... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southe... more ... She found one which allowed her to produce a non-assimilationist construction of black southern African wdmen as political agents, and to represent the possibility of a non-racist love. ... WORKS CITED Chrisman, Laura. " Allegory, Feminist Thought and the Dreams of Olive ...
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