Zakiya R. Adair's research while affiliated with University of Missouri and other places
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Publications (4)
Artistic creations, performances, and the artists who produce them have played central roles in the communication and reinforcement of national identities and their accompanying racial categories. Boarding ships bound for Europe, African American musicians, singers, dancers and artists made use of the modern availability of international travel and...
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s book carefully documents the life and work of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West. Most illuminating is Sherrard-Johnson’s excavation of Dorothy West’s interviews and how Sherrard-Johnson reads Dorothy West’s class politics and lifelong struggles with intra-race colorism. In the introduction, Sherrard-Johnson states th...
Reacting to American racist policies and post-World War I access to international travel, a flourish of African Americans migrated to Paris and London in the early 1920s.1 African American women entertainers found particular success in the genre of vaudeville. Josephine Baker, Mabel Mercer, Aida “Bricktop” Smith, and Adelaide Hall are just a few of...
Florence Mills was one of only a few African American women vaudeville performers to become an international success. Born in Washington D.C. in 1895 and raised in Harlem, New York, Mills was a child performer in dramatic and musical theater. Through analysis of Florence Mills’ performances in Shuffle Along (1921), Dover Street to Dixie (1923) and...
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... No recordings have survived of Mills' performances, but she was considered to be one of the leading performers of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, and she was one of the few African American vaudeville performers to achieve international success. 12 Jayna Brown observes that the lives of African American performers were inherently itinerant, and that through her performance and mobility Mills embodied 'the New Black Woman' who was 'urban, emancipated' and mobile, 'traveling abroad to represent the black cultural capital' of African Americans. 13 Mills wore her Eton crop brushed back and 'had modern views' on Southern spiritual melodies. ...
