Category: history

Attachment with feeling and imagination

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… romantics believed in a transcendental nature that moves through affects and inspires the visionary and autonomous individual. an individual who then creates their own imaginative and personal perspective on Humanity and the world. In short, they emphasized the power of the human imagination to contribute to the future,which stories we tell each other and how we tell them matters…

feelings, emotions, and the imagination …

Lewis Waller offers on the nexus of Romanticism and historiography. via aeon.

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art thus becomes as Schelling famously argued the organon and criterion of truth itself

at 16:32.

Shelley’s Defence of Poetry, “Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”

Achebe

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Memory is necessary if surviving is going to be more than just a technical thing.

… Ibo proverb — “Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.”

via brainpickings

Related : Conversations with James Baldwin. Book.

“[Photo] of Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin in Florida, 1980. Where they met for the first time at a conversation between them organised as part of a conference hosted by the African Literature Association, in Gainesville, Florida.” via duroolowu.

Walter Rodney’s ‘Groundings’

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Via Verso, On Walter Rodney‘s concept and practice of ‘Grounding’ as Critical Pedagogy by Kevin Okoth.

“A collection of public lectures held by Rodney in Jamaica and at the Congress of Black Writers in Montréal, Groundings provides a pedagogical framework for intellectuals fighting to undo the epistemological distortions of imperialism.”

“To truly ‘ground’, Rodney believed that the revolutionary intellectual must go anywhere to reason with their people. […] ‘I was prepared to go anywhere that any group of black people were prepared to sit down and listen’, he writes. ‘It might be in a sports club, it might be in a school-room, it might be in a church, it might be in a gully […] – ‘dark dismal places with a black population who have had to seek refuge there. You will have to go there if you want to talk to them.’ […] For Rodney, the revolutionary Black intellectual cannot hide in the university and challenge the status-quo within the boundaries of academic respectability. These intellectuals, he argued, do not pose a threat to the neo-colonial elites; only when these same intellectuals break out of academic isolation and engage in the mutual exchange of knowledge with those struggling on the ground, do they begin to challenge oppressive and exploitative systems of power.”

Morant Bay, Jamaica

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“The events at Morant Bay in 1865 followed on the heels a period of public meetings known as the Underhill Meetings, and peaceful expression of grievances through petitions. Complaints included a series of economic issues related to wages, land tenure, access to markets, and labor rights; political issues related to unfair taxation, no justice in the courts, and elite-biased government policies; and civil issues that included voting rights, and access to healthcare, education, and land. In that sense it was not a riot so much as a social movement, which was rejected by the Governor and finally turned to violence against the representatives of the local government.”

via Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library. Research for future works.

Casa de África

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Casa de África
Obrapía No. 157, e/ San Ignacio y Mercaderes, Habana Vieja.

The Casa de Africa was founded in 1986 in a colonial palace in Old Havana to showcase the history and culture of Africa.

There are valuable collections from 27 African countries, based on the collection of researcher Fernando Ortiz, who first used the term Afro-Cuban, and also on the African collection of Fidel Castro, which consists principally of pieces sent by grateful recipients of Cuban aid..

afrocubaweb.

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Gloria Ronaldo Casamayor

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Filmmaker.

AfroCubaWeb.
gloriarolandofilms on fb.
Wikipedia.

Imágenes del Caribe.
Partido Indepediente de Color (Independent Party of Color), founded by Pedro Ivonnet.


2015


2018, Pulitzer Center.

Discussion with Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando on Film 1912: Braking the Silence, April 6, 2010 from Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando brought her acclaimed documentary and feature work to UNC Chapel Hill as artist-in-residence from April 1-7. During her stay, she screened and spoke to an audience about her most recent films, Roots of My Heart and 1912: Breaking the Silence.

Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Festival, 1999.
cubanartnews, 2012.
In Miami, 2013.
Reembarque, FIU, 2014.
caribbeanstudiesassociation in Haiti, 2016.
In D.R.
Miami – Art of Black

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Cornelius Castoriadis interviewed by Chris Marker, 1989

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On democracy and the lessons to be drawn from the Athenians.  Public life concerns us all, is our affair, and can not be fully delegated. Also on philosophy, polis, hubris, tragedy, slavery, barbarian, the individual, freedom, the collective, and a cosmology of order, disorder, and chance.

The full version of an interview with Cornelius Castoriadis, conducted by Chris Marker for his documentary TV series, “L’héritage de la chouette” (“The owl’s legacy”), broadcast in 16 episodes from June 12th-28th 1989 on La Sept (future Arte).

Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series

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Via Forum, Spring 2018.

The LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the University of Florida Press and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, is proud to announce the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series.  This series makes available for free 39 books related to Florida and the Caribbean that are regarded as “classics.” It is made possible by
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program.  Books in the series highlight the many connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. They show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers throughout the region. They examine topics important to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, urban development, and tourism.

Read books in the series for free at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/openbooks