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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 222–232.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Dagmawi Woubshet In his long, illustrious career, James Baldwin never wrote a full book on Africa. The figure of Africa, nonetheless, was a recurring one in his corpus—a figure that would change significantly over the course of his writing. While Baldwin’s early representations of Africa follow...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 124–135.
Published: 01 November 2018
... racial injustice in the United States, are evident in the challenges faced by Dunham, as well as in the boycott of the festival by Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin. The intrusion of unresolved histories and liberation struggles erupted in significant controversies within the festival and in charges...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 144–157.
Published: 01 May 2019
... Tubman, Amiri Baraka, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, James Baldwin, and Barack Obama are a few of the dominant and instrumental figures in African American history, music, poetry, art, and political activism who appear in his work. Their embodiment rests on the edges of the frame, small, but bold, painted lines...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 124–128.
Published: 01 November 2024
... THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW Artists Reframe the Black Figure NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON FEBRUARY 22 MAY 19, 2024 There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now. James Baldwin wrote this in 1956 in an essay titled...
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Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 50–54.
Published: 01 May 2004
... black slaves, but to liberate a whole country from a disastrous way of life. —James Baldwin ike the silent flash of cool, blue light and the thunderous roar of its aftermath, Terry Adkins's art and music com• bine the visionary power of generations past...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (31): 36–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Hurston and disclose a single focus. A photographic image, silk-­ Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Jean Genet. A screened in black ink, Hands carries the pointillist graduate of Wesleyan University and the Whitney’s grain of the enlarged document whose information own rigorously theoretical...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 21–23.
Published: 01 November 1996
... description James Baldwin Geoffrey Jacques is a poet writer, and critic. He has published widely on art and cultural applied to Harlem in the 1950's more eloquently given its human...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 6–21.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Looking for Langston differs because it origi- I looked for a cab, nates in Julien’s response to the memorial service for James Baldwin and mourns the three writers but cabs, like the fall, were a matter of colour, whose death...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 10–11.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of an insidious and hypocritical country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you right on the other. Osorio's installations, though often consigned to the should perish," James Baldwin's admonishes his young nephew, James Jr. vague yet prevalently fatuous category...
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 114–115.
Published: 01 May 2002
... on the Street" James Dialcette-Taut Noire, 1974, printed in 2001, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20" with Malian Photographer Malick Sidibe", Baldwin comments...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 11.
Published: 01 May 1999
... found refuge in a city that accepted and appreciated them. Beginning with jazz musicians like Louis ^QtF Armstrong and performers like Josephine Baker early in the century, to writers such as Richard Wright and James Baldwin after the war, artists of color considered Paris a good playing ground...
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Nka (1998) 1998 (9): 71.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., James Baldwin, Aime declaration of artistic autonomy. right. At least, it was food for my Fall/Winter 1998 Nka«7l ...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 54–67.
Published: 01 May 2023
... between abstraction and figuration that characterizes the latter s work and their shared touchstone in writer James Baldwin.40 In looking for Beauford, then, we may identify an even broader array of compatriots along the way, a geneaology stretching forwards and backwards in time that puts into relief...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 68–81.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the collective suddenly scream out in capital letters, reminding us, cry of those who are suffering. The phrases reveal in the spirit of James Baldwin, that we are still in problems relating to massacre, genocide, war, mass occupied territory.1 migration, militantly controlled...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 30–47.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is not black like Ligon. cathedral at Chartres says something to them which Ligon’s black text fields anticipate and inform it cannot say to me.” 40 I now turn to Fred Wilson, his massive subsequent project based on James who opposes blackface by connecting the dots be - Baldwin’s...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 120–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at the same time in the training and education of the next generation of CO: The experience you have had with critics of The Cadillac artists? Howard Thurman, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Chronicles, and of Good and Bad Hair, is a reminder of the Anna Julia Cooper, Barbara Christian...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 144–149.
Published: 01 November 2009
... - blueprint for protecting my work: “Remember not St. Clair interviewing author James Baldwin. He began his career at twenty-three from that van...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 130–137.
Published: 01 May 2012
... before them, you know. The photographers were following BC: Yeah, right, she did, designed the layout of In Our Roy DeCarava and people before him, and of course the Terribleness. writers were following works of James Baldwin, so . . . MC: So as we think of the Wall...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 100–109.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Baldwin, Albert Murray Mayhew describes this failure as “part of all the and Samuel Allen.32 manipulation and control” characteristic of major museums: “Any time there was a black show, it was The structure of Spiral supported...
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 108.
Published: 01 May 2002
... on the Street" James Dialcette-Taut Noire, 1974, printed in 2001, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20" with Malian Photographer Malick Sidibe", Baldwin comments...