Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery - October 18 - December 15, 2017
Dual Exhibition: Héctor Mediavilla and Christopher López —
Spanish photographer Héctor Mediavilla and Nuyorican photographer Christopher López will have their works on display from Oct. 18 through Dec. 15. An opening reception will take place on Wed., Oct. 18 from 5 – 7 p.m. Both artists will be in attendance and offer brief opening remarks about their work beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The images from these dual photography exhibits examine cultural identities in relation to Holy Cross history conference exploring the performance and display of black masculinities in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Learn more>>
Roger Hankins, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, curated the exhibitions to accompany a three-day academic conference and workshop entitled “Rethinking the Afropolitan: The Ethics of Black Atlantic Masculinities on Display”, but the works by Mediavilla and Lopez will remain on view until the end of the semester in December. The conference is being organized by Holy Cross History Department faculty members Rosa Carrasquillo and Lorelle Semley, and is sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. View the complete schedule holycross.edu/afropolitan.
Image from https://www.holycross.edu/iris-and-b-gerald-cantor-art-gallery/current-exhbition
Books in the HC Libraries Collections
An Intellectual History of the Caribbean ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Dinand - F2169 .T67 2006~[135]~: 1403966761~[136]~: 2006-12-18
The People's Poet ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Music Reserve - ML420.R65 C37 2014~[135]~: 9781626321977~[136]~: 2014-10-07
My Music Is My Flag ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Music Reserve - ML3481 .G53 1995~[135]~: 0520081226~[136]~: 1995-05-02
Music of Latin America and the Caribbean ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Music Reserve - ML199 .B75 2011~[135]~: 9780131839441~[136]~: 2010-10-01
¡Oye como va! : santos y señas de la música popular puertorriqueña ~[172]~
Summary: Essays published since 2008 in the cultural supplement En Rojo, from Claridad newspaper, in which the author interprets historical data on Puerto Rican popular music and personalities.
~[134]~: Music Reserve - ML3486.P8 G3 2012~[135]~: 9781935892090~[136]~: 2012
Progressive Black Masculinities ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Dinand - E185.86 .P945 2006~[135]~: 9780415976879~[136]~: 2006-09-28
Black Masculinity: the black male's role in American society ~[172]~ ~[134]~: Dinand - E185.86 .S715 1985~[135]~: 0933296061~[136]~: 1982-02-01
ebooks in the HC Libraries Collections
Hyper Sexual Hyper Masculine? Gender Race and Sexuality in the Identities of Contemporary Black Men ~[172]~ ~[134]~: eBook~[135]~: 9781472425133~[136]~: 2014-07-14
Journal Articles in the HC Libraries Collections
Selling (out) on the Black Market: Black Bazar’s Literary Sape by Katelyn Knox
This article develops a framework drawing from Congolese sape fashion practices to read Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black bazar. In sape—an acronym for La Société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes (the Society of Ambiencers and Persons of Elegance)—sapeurs 'sappers' perform danses des griffes 'dances of designer labels' during which they brandish their clothing items’ designer brands. In my reading of Black bazar as an example of 'literary sape,' I argue that the narrator-author’s references to cultural works from a variety of national and historical contexts can productively be read as a literary danse des griffes—a performance that interrogates the reading strategies to which the novel itself will be subjected. Ultimately, through its content and form, Black bazar contests the very notion of authenticity that undergirds how francophone cultural works and their authors are packaged and circulated within larger global cultural economies.
~[134]~: Journal Article- African atrocity, American humanity: slavery and its transnational afterlives by Goyal, Yogita
This essay argues that contemporary American conceptions of African atrocity are haunted by the specter of slavery, which structures the ways in which a relation between the United States and Africa is imagined. Francis Bok's memoir, Escape from Slavery (2003), and Dave Eggers's novel What Is the What (2006) reveal the stakes of this literary haunting, where the canonical Atlantic genre of the antebellum slave narrative is called into play to narrate contemporary Sudanese stories, thus refashioning the politics of race and diaspora for a neoliberal age. Reading for the formal and ideological exchanges between subject, author, and amanuensis, the essay shows how the discourse of modern slavery relies on sentimental humanism to generate a seemingly new way for Americans to imagine themselves as global citizens, constituting themselves as global via their humanitarian empathy for the African victim of atrocity.
~[134]~: Journal Article
- Introduction: debating the Afropolitan by Emilia Maria Duran-Almarza~[134]~: Journal Article
- Why I am (still) not an Afropolitan by Emma Dabiri~[134]~: Journal Article
- Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model by Chielozona Eze
Since the end of the Cold War and, in particular, the demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate about African identity. There seems to be a consensus among scholars of African culture that the conventional notion of African identity that was conceived in opposition to the West is anachronistic. But what then constitutes the new African? Scholars have suggested concepts such as contamination, cultural hybridity, cultural mutt, conviviality, and most recently Afropolitanism, as means to understand the complex modern African identity. This article takes a critical examination of Afropolitanism and argues that it is an enunciation of the ideas of contamination, hybridity, hyperculturality and other postmodernist terms that disrupt essentialist and oppositional notions of African culture and identity. I hope to achieve two things in this article: situate Afropolitanism within a larger philosophical tradition of cosmopolitanism and examine the moral implications of expanding the notion of African identity beyond the oppositional model.
~[134]~: Journal Article
This guide originally created by Helen O'Hara, Library Intern, in October 2017