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This article reviews part of the stage history of Shakespeare’s Othello in Chile and, in particular, it focuses on two performances of the play: the first, in 1818, and the last one in 2012-2020. By comparing both productions, I aim to... more
Kitamura Sae, "How Should You Perform and Watch Othello and Hairspray in a Country Where You Could Never Hire Black Actors? Shakespeare and Casting in Japan", 22 (2020): 87-101.
Retour sur les conditions d'émergence de la lutte contre le blackface dans le contexte belge. Archéologie coloniale du personnage du "Sauvage" présent lors de la Ducasse de Ath. Généalogie du folklore raciste et coloniale en Belgique à... more
Este trabajo busca brindar claridad con respecto a la historia y escritura del ritmo de Caporal, que es prácticamente el mismo de la Tuntuna, el Tundique y la Saya Urbana. Danzas hoy conocidas y bailadas en Bolivia, Perú, Argentina y... more
This essay examines the ideological power of Carnival and the carnivalesque on the Colombian Caribbean Coast by circumnavigating the dominant narrative about these events as primarily stages to transgress social norms and resist... more
The Latin@ media continues to exclude black bodies from television in order to perpetuate systemic white privilege. Although racism within the Latino community has not been part of a mainstream conversation, the presence of color-blind or... more
Chantier #6: Baroque is burning! Pénélope Dechaufour and Marine Roussillon, eds. (January 2022). Web
https://www.thaetre.com/2022/01/07/le-corps-de-la-nation/
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“Why Did Negroes Love Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer?: Melodrama, Blackface and Cosmopolitan Theatrical Culture” in Film History, 23:2 (2011) 198-222.
The call to clean museums of faulty works of art, to purge films of patriarchal stereotypes, is based on a collective ignorance of the difference between fiction and reality and is related to the rise of gender and cultural studies which... more
El presente trabajo propone informar y posteriormente persuadir de manera hipotética, la existencia de una nueva práctica o un nuevo modelo que Kim Kardashian representa y que, sutilmente induce al racismo. De esta forma, demostraremos... more
Resumen Este artículo analiza la aparición de los bailes en los villancicos “de negro” para indagar sobre la contribución de los iberoafricanos en la cultura musical y coreográfica de la España del siglo XVII. Concretamente, a partir de... more
Prominent Irish philosopher Richard Kearney’s notion of ‘carnal hermeneutics’ is introduced by applying it to a case study of a recent event that took place at one of South Africa’s university campuses. The narrative assists in... more
Il saggio offre un percorso nelle teorie del comico, con un focus sulle "teorie della superiorità" per introdurre a una lettura trans/culturale del blackface nel cinema italiano. Riferimenti a due commedie di produzione recente. Nota: In... more
En s’intéressant aux discours des personnes défendant le blackface contemporain durant les controverses québécoises sur ce sujet entre 2013 et 2016, l’auteure montre comment ceux-ci ont été teintés par la fragilité blanche, concept de... more
Twenty years after I saw myself in the mirror as Zwarte Piet, I now use my computer screen as a mirror for reflection – to sharpen my mind in the clash of emotions.
This essay compares Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness, commissioned by Queen Anna of Denmark in 1605, and Love’s Mistress by Thomas Heywood, contracted by Queen Henrietta Maria in 1634. I reveal that Heywood’s Love’s Mistress—featuring... more
This dissertation examines the life and times of the Canadian pianistcomposer Calixa Lavallee (1842-1891). Hailed as the 'national musician' in his twenties, he subsequently gained wide recognition as Canada's first pianist of... more
Retour sur les conditions d'émergence de la lutte contre le blackface dans le contexte belge. Archéologie coloniale du personnage du "Sauvage" présent lors de la Ducasse de Ath. Généalogie du folklore raciste et coloniale en Belgique à... more
La pratique du blackface (une personne blanche se maquille la peau pour caricaturer une personne noire) est un phénomène ancien, qui se popularise aux Etats-Unis au milieu du XVIIIe s. avec le genre du minstrel show et existe également... more
This article will point to distinctive features of racism in the Netherlands, which will support the analysis of the 2013 events. 2013 deserves attention for it marks the moment when the discussion of Zwarte Piet broke into the mainstream... more
A brief talk presented as part of a series of "Courageous Conversations" at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University on 17 March 2016. The idea behind the series, jointly hosted by the Beyers Naude Centre for Public Theology and... more
Robert Gooding-Williams, in his essay “Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire,” takes issue very strongly with Stanley Cavell’s readings of scenes from the 1953 Fred Astaire musical The Band Wagon. Where Cavell... more
Lettre ouverte à agir par la culture à propos procès intenté par le bourgmestre de Lessines, Pascal De Handschutter (PS), contre Nordine Saidi et Bruxelles Panthères dans le cadre de la lutte contre le blackface en Belgique (Sauvage d'Ath... more
The first thorough investigation of the way that Joni Mitchell transformed herself into a black male jazz musician and pimp to combat rock’s notorious sexism.
Intended for researchers outside the Netherlands, this simple note summarises the run-up to recent 'culture-war' violence, around the annual Sinterklaas festival in that country.
Early January, French internet users vehemently denounced a video posted on social networks that showed an African-themed party with a host in blackface and a guest dressed as a monkey, that involved employees of the French company Le... more
RESUMEN Este artículo explora cómo la fealdad es producida como una forma de afecto y una categoría biopolítica dentro del contexto brasileño. Basado en tres años de investigación de archivo y trabajo de campo etnográfico en el sudeste... more