Displayed at the MOMA in 1984, ‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern,” raises questions about how the modern art period “othered” non-Western culture via the art institution.
The Chinoiserie Paradox: Fashion Creating the Self Through the “Other”
The aesthetic of Chinese influence, or Chinoiserie, in fashion signals the fluid Italian sociocultural relations to the Chinese “Other”: embodying paradoxes of desire and detest simultaneously in the history of Italian fashion.
Toxic Colonialism: Nuclear Materials in the Pacific Islands
Nuclear materials produced by the U.S. have contributed to ocean pollution, declining ecological welfare, and public health crises since the nation’s involvement in nuclear development at the onset of the Cold War.
Imperialism by Default: How the HIPC Initiative Cycles Debt in Ghana
Ghana is undoubtedly rich in natural resources. It is somewhat of a wonder, then, that the country is now classified for the second time in twenty years as a “Heavily Indebted Poor Country.”
Memeing Mental Illness: A New Group Therapy
The internet and social media have transformed traditional etiquettes around sharing and communication to allow people to air their personal suffering and turmoil in online spaces. One format through which mental illness is addressed is the meme.
From the Camel to Machinery: The Construction of Turksib and the Russian Idea of Asia
On May 1, 1930 the main line of the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, opened in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic after almost four years of construction.
The Outer City: Laïcité and Lack in France’s Postcolonial Banlieues
‘Banlieue’ simply refers to a suburb, but in recent years has taken on new meaning, understood to encompass the perceptions of violence and dereliction surrounding Paris’ peripheral social housing developments.
Black Explosion and Utopia: The Ante-Norm’s Call
Francophone representation of the black colonial subject claims a lineage stemming from codified wartime propaganda and regimes of visual control over the racial imaginary. Gradual widenings in a postcolonial French filmic canon produced a reclamatory arc of formerly silenced black narratives.
Tradition and National Identity: LGBT Status in Contemporary India
In the post-independence state, the status of LGBT people in a strict dichotomy of inherent belonging through (Hindu) tradition or rejection on the grounds of Western origination would become a hotly contested issue within the courts.
Exploring Genderqueer Identity Within Gendered German
Within a grammatically gendered language like German, it is difficult to make space for those who fall outside of or in between male and female, masculine and feminine.
Huang Yong Ping: Nonsense is Sense
Around a circle surrounded by cryptic protestations “Without assassination of art, there can be no peace!”; “Art is like opium!”; and “Dadaism is Dead!”; the Xiamen Dadaists concluded their retrospective exhibition by burning nearly sixty artworks.
You Say Oui, I Say Waaw: The Linguistic Politics of Dakar
One of the most notable urban characteristics of Dakar, Senegal is its language, which divides its inhabitants, the Dakarois, into social, religious, and ethnic categories.
The Language of Beauty: An Analysis of Masculinity in Sephora
As they enter Sephora from a busy Seventeenth Street, at the top of Union Square Park, clients are met with the warm, musky scent of various colognes melding together.