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African American Art and Life

Posted on | January 5, 2009 | No Comments

(i received this from Builder Levy. Carrie’s off to a robust start of the new year!)

I am glad to announce that I [Builder Levy] am showing 7 very special photographs as part of a beautiful exhibition, African American Art and Life, at the

Flomenaft Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 308, New York, 10001, tel. 212.268.4952, website, www.flomenhaftgallery.com. I am am honored to be showing with such great artists as Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and others.

THE OPENING RECEPTION IS THURSDAY, JAN 8TH, 6-8 PM

The show runs from Jan 2-Feb 28, 2009.

Carrie Mae Weems in San Francisco

Posted on | January 3, 2009 | No Comments

Harlee Little, ?? - 2009

Posted on | January 3, 2009 | No Comments

harlee little: arts advocate, thinker, role model and visionary lost


Such a sad way to start out the new year. Check out the obituary at http://shaunaleelange.com/2009/01/02/harlee-little-arts-advocate-thinker-role-model-and-visionary-lost/

party like it’s 2009

Posted on | December 31, 2008 | No Comments

happy new year. may it be better than the preceding one(s).

New title: Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

Posted on | December 31, 2008 | No Comments

I received this from one of my various listservs:

I wanted to alert you all to the publication of “Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy”.

Here is the website: http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Black-Women-Cultural-Images-and-Social-Policy-isbn9780415996785.

Summary:
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women.

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