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| Grand Opening of the New Schomburg Center Come with family and friends to see the newly renovated Schomburg Center at the Open House Celebration. |
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULENoon to 1 p.m. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Face painting by Glitter Bug 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center presents a staged reading of The Jack Johnson 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. “Back to the Root” African Storytelling, games and songs with Amadoma Bediako |
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Don’t miss two new exhibitions: Black Art: Treasures from the SchomburgTo help commemorate the Grand Opening of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s renovated facilities, this exhibition offers a sampling of the diverse forms of artistic expression and trends documented in the Center’s collection. Part of a long and enduring tradition of art-making in the African world, these works eloquently attest to the fact that African peoples, like all members of the human family, have been actively and creatively involved in producing art of extraordinary beauty, meaning, and power, regardless of where and under what circumstances they have lived. |
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Stereotypes vs. Humantypes: Images of Blacks in the 19th and 20th CenturiesFor much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, stereotypical images of people of African descent dominated the public media, especially in the United States. Black men, women and children were portrayed as “coons,” “mammies,” and “pickaninnies” in the press, in children’s and comic books, in marketing and advertising promotions, as well as film and television. Many of these mythological images persist today in the public consciousness and public eye. This exhibition uses vintage photographs of black people, as well as representational paintings, sculptures and other artworks to challenge these mythological images and present accurate, humanistic depictions of these maligned black folk. It also poses the question of why certain whites in western culture found it necessary to create such stereotypical images of their human forbearers. |
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515 Malcolm X Blvd Temporary entrance: 103 West 135th Street New York, NY 10037www.schomburgcenter.org |
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anon
May 9, 2007
Good observation, but it is different today, those old images are white stereotypes of blacks. These new 2007 images are black stereotypes of blacks.
I too am appalled at the images of black males and females on news stand magazine covers. However, look a little closer and these are mostly hip-hop magazines, just like the music it needs cleaning up. You would not see these images if young black people did not buy them, just like you would not have to listen to this music celebrating thug lifestyle if young people did not buy it.
Look in a business magazine and you will not find one image of a thugged out black person, but you will find images of professional black people.
I suggest the Schomburg center have an exhibit of how young black culture portrays itself in 2007. I suspect we may have to wait 100 years before the Schomburg has an exhibit of this kind.
Anon
May 9, 2007
stereotypes & humantypes in the 19th/20th Century?
It’s no different today. Go to any newsstand and you might see ONE professionally dressed Black man or woman on the cover of Black Enterprise. You have to look hard for that ONE image though. However I guarantee you WILL see A DOZEN images of very much naked Black women presented in a total sexualized context and you will see A DOZEN images of Black men portraying a look with baseball caps tipped to the side, bandanas/scafs wrapped around their heads, lots of bling, grillz, etc. you know the look.
100 years from today you will be able to have the same exhibit on media images of Blacks in 2007. Show me 5 minutes of television broadcast time of a professional or even a family Black man or woman and I will counter that with 1 HOUR of Blacks on TV where the women are more or less naked and sexualized and the men thug’ed out.
Of course there are exceptions but the rule today is Blacks in media TODAY are far more often portrayed in stereotypical fashion, you just have to expand your mind, have the vision and see it.
In 100 years they will look back on today and define how Black are portrayed with GRILLZ and WEAVES.
anon
May 9, 2007
Good question,
“It also poses the question of why certain whites in western culture found it necessary to create such stereotypical images of their human forbearers.”
Answer, we are ALL capable of doing wrong.
Just hang out in Harlem a while and you will notice plenty of black on white racism and stereotypes. Given the opportunity, all humans, regardless of color can and do wrong, just goes to show we are not so different after all.