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recent bookmarks from jerrykingOpinion | ‘The Gilded Age’ Is Depicting Black Success. More TV Should. - The New York Times2022-02-20T20:37:46+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/opinion/the-gilded-age.html
jerryking> Brooklyn <<, where a community of prosperous >> Black families << took hold......I like this depiction of the era and have a hope: that we accept it, and others like it, as a win, rather than engaging in a dutiful exercise of contesting and finding fault with this show (and others) for not pointing its camera at Black misery........However, it isn’t fanciful to imagine such an objection emerging, as the series goes forth, when you consider that for years there was debate about whether the “The Cosby Show,” with its upper-middle-class Brooklynite Black family, was a realistic portrayal of Black life in America. Or when “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class” (the inspiration for last year’s eponymous Fox series) was published in 1999 and its author, Lawrence Otis Graham, found himself described as a guileless chronicler of the Black elite. Or when the general zeitgeist seems to teach us that resenting white power and privilege is more interesting than examining how some people get past them.
But given that Black struggle is these days portrayed rather richly in film and theater, “The Gilded Age” lends a service in showing, beyond museum exhibits and magazine articles, that Black people in another age could triumph despite the obstacles. It brings onscreen life to one of many Black truths, and the one it has chosen to show is of a kind that a truly proud people must not be denied.
]]>African-Americans Gilded_Age HBO_Max history inspiration John_McWhorter Lawrence_Otis_Graham NAACP New_York_City racial_humor second-class_citizenship sitcoms stereotypes television upliftment bourgeois black_families Brooklynhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:68e9f0440004/Opinion | Sidney Poitier and the Black Voice2022-01-14T21:09:59+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opinion/poitier-black-english.html
jerrykingAfrican-Americans code_switching John_McWhorter Sidney_Poitier Afro-Caribbeans Black_English Black_Voices second-class_citizenshiphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:31c004330407/Ida B Wells’ long overdue Pulitzer helps rebalance history2020-05-09T14:40:00+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/b552bcca-904e-11ea-9207-ace009a12028
jerrykingAfrican-Americans books erasures heroes history investigative_journalism journalists lynchings postbellum racial_violence racism the_South women historical_amnesia second-class_citizenship Pulitzer_Prize Ida_B._Wells overlookedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3d7a90fd72e0/Opinion | 1919: The Year of the Crack-Up2019-01-01T03:00:41+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/1919-america.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion
jerryking1919 African-Americans history WWI second-class_citizenship segregation Woodrow_Wilson Paris turning_points F._Scott_Fitzgerald opposing_viewpointshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2c8affdddc8c/Black on the battlefield: Canada’s forgotten First World War battalion - The Globe and Mail2018-11-10T17:52:15+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-black-on-the-battlefield-canadas-forgotten-first-world-war-battalion/
jerrykingAfrican_Canadians books forgotten Nova_Scotia racial_discrimination second-class_citizenship segregation WWI history historical_amnesiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2c09b2045256/The History the Slaveholders Wanted Us to Forget - The New York Times2017-02-05T19:55:44+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/the-history-the-slaveholders-wanted-us-to-forget.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
jerrykinghistorians history slavery Africa ignorance slaveholders Henry_Louis_Gates African-Americans second-class_citizenship humanity W.E.B._Du_Bois Black_Power erasures historical_amnesiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7e6307ea405f/N.Y. Military Museum Recognizes the Harlem Hellfighters - WSJ2014-11-29T04:40:07+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/articles/n-y-military-museum-recognizes-the-harlem-hellfighters-1417218267?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth
jerrykingWWI African-Americans segregation New_York_City museums heroes France second-class_citizenshiphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6ccf0de197e6/Stabroek News - In The Diaspora:The Life and Death of a Nation2010-08-24T13:16:48+00:00
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/features/08/23/in-the-diasporathe-life-and-death-of-a-nation/
jerryking>Are the concerns of the region our concerns? Do we wish to continue to be micro-states [i.e. = "small states"] with independence but no sovereignty? Or do we long, as Lloyd Best once said, to be part of a massive Caribbean sou-sou?<<
One of the greatest indictments of this story by Barbadian state managers is the fact that their amnesty period targets only Caricom citizens – who by virtue of their membership in the Caribbean Community should have greater access to any country in the region than North American or European citizens.
British and American nationals have through their real estate purchases in the last 15 years in collusion with local white elites and the government made arguably the greatest changes in the **living standards** of Barbadians, with land and building costs priced out of the reach of many families, and with no clear end to this in sight. Yet their right to enter and exist within the country is assured.
]]>Caribbean unity regional history dissension disunity anti-immigration Barbados C.L.R._James Caricom illegal_migration regional_integration second-class_citizenship small_states West_Indian_Federation catastrophes disasters Haiti natural_calamities standard_of_livinghttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:070019ab5251/Amazon.com: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black ...2009-01-22T02:35:43+00:00
http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385506252
jerrykingAfrican-Americans slavery Jim_Crow convicts incarceration the_South 19th_century books groundbreaking historical_amnesia history mass_incarceration postbellum second-class_citizenshiphttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d1ac6281dce9/